68-mile-long scar from violent tornado spotted by satellite
Tornadoes hit the South hard on Easter Sunday, just as predicted by the National Weather Service. Three days later, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite captured an image of a long scar left by one of the day’s powerful twisters.
The image shows a 68-mile-long scar in Mississippi, which is land flattened by an EF-4 tornado, the second-most damaging type of tornado.
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Tornadoes are the most violent type of storm. In Mississippi alone, the Easter twisters killed at least 14 people.
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Meanwhile in Georgia, an Easter tornado moved a house into the middle of a road.
Spring is high time for twisters in the Gulf Coast states. Tornadoes often form from a dangerous type of thunderstorm with rotating updrafts, called a supercell. Meteorologists can predict the chaotic atmospheric conditions that will produce supercells, and thus the potential for violent tornadoes.
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