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tornado
Pictures: Courtesy of Howard B. Bluestein |

5:22 p.m.
Airborne, the dust swirls beneath the moving storm. A tornado could be hidden behind the veil of dirt particles. Typically, tornadoes form along the edges of thunderstorms, when differences in the speed of winds close to the ground and those closer to the storm itself cause the air between them to begin spinning.


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