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WEATHER EXTREME: TORNADO
Grow Your Own Tornado
Birth and Death of a Tornado
Anatomy of a Killer
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	Birth and Death of a Tornado The entire lifetime of the tornado itself was less than 10 minutes, according to Howard B. Bluestein, a professor of meteorology at the University of Oklahoma. He includes these photographs in his book Tornado Alley: Monster Storms of the Great Plains (Oxford University Press; 1999). View a slide show of the fleeting life of a tornado taken in Oklahoma during a May day in 1981.

Pictures: Courtesy of Howard B. Bluestein |

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