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Monday, November 29, 2004
Home made Twister: Create Your Own Tornado
We discovered how to make our own home-made tornado quite by accident!!
All you you need is an empty bottle of Frank's hot sauce, without the label or any bottle that has a very narrow mouth and is cone-shaped towards the mouth.
Fill the bottle with water and turn it upside down and drain till there is about 1/2 inch of air at the top (which is the bottom of the bottle). Then swirl the bottle around in a quick circular motion about 5-6 times and hold it very still thereafter. You should see a vortex forming as the water rushes to the bottom and air is sucked in at the same time to fill the low pressure area being created at the top.
In a real tornado, hot air trapped below cold air rises to form the swirling winds of a tornado's vortex. The water in our home made example is the cool air.
It's just too cool!!
All you you need is an empty bottle of Frank's hot sauce, without the label or any bottle that has a very narrow mouth and is cone-shaped towards the mouth.
Fill the bottle with water and turn it upside down and drain till there is about 1/2 inch of air at the top (which is the bottom of the bottle). Then swirl the bottle around in a quick circular motion about 5-6 times and hold it very still thereafter. You should see a vortex forming as the water rushes to the bottom and air is sucked in at the same time to fill the low pressure area being created at the top.
In a real tornado, hot air trapped below cold air rises to form the swirling winds of a tornado's vortex. The water in our home made example is the cool air.
It's just too cool!!
Other Tornado Resources:
Fujita Tornado Damage Scale, developed in 1971 by T. Theodore Fujita of the University of Chicago.
Quick-reference summary of tornado knowledge
Tornado images (Google Images)
¶ 11/29/2004 07:18:00 PM 0 Comments
Fujita Tornado Damage Scale, developed in 1971 by T. Theodore Fujita of the University of Chicago.
Quick-reference summary of tornado knowledge
Tornado images (Google Images)
