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A Tornado with Brooklyn Twist
When you think of tornados in the United States, you expect to find them in places like Kansas or Oklahoma. But how about one in New York City?
That's right! Last week, a tornado touched down in Brooklyn, which is one of five boroughs that make up the Big Apple. With winds whipping at 135 miles per hour, the column of twisting wind caused damage along a nine-mile trail.
Cars were crushed, trees were uprooted, and roofs were torn off of homes. 44 buildings were evacuated until they could be determined safe to live in. Several small tornadoes have touched down in New York City in recent years, but this was the first tornado to strike Brooklyn since record keeping began in 1950.
A tornado is a funnel of wind that stretches down from clouds to touch the ground. They usually occur at the front of intense thunderstorms. Tornados are measured in strength from 1 to 5 on the Fujita scale. A category 1 tornado will barely damage trees, but a category 5 will rip buildings from their foundations! The tornado that landed in Brooklyn was category 2 so the damage wasn't as severe as it could've been.
I'm Adelbert and that's what happened in Science this week!
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