At first, the tornado was just a wispy tendril trailing from a cloud--too fragile, it seemed, to do any harm. But suddenly it spawned three new funnels that spiraled around their parent in a deadly dance. Then, as the car his partner was driving skidded along a mud-slicked road near Hanston, Kansas, Robert Davies-Jones glanced nervously through a rear window and saw that this menacing whorl of dust and debris was following a bit too closely behind. Just as wild animals sometimes turn and track their hunters, Davies-Jones realized with growing alarm, the tornado he had started out chasing was chasing...
UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF TWISTERS
ARMED WITH POWERFUL COMPUTERS, DOPPLER RADAR AND PLENTY OF NERVE, METEOROLOGISTS ARE GETTING A HANDLE ON NATURE'S MOST TERRIFYING STORMS
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