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How A Tornado Forms
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Wind shear between the surface and air aloft creates a rotating column of air.
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Updrafts start to elongate and rotate the rotating air column.
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Thunderstorm updrafts continue to elongate the now rotated and rotating air column.
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A wall cloud forms with the elongated and vertical column of air.
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The final stages of tornado formation.
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Wind shear between the surface and air aloft creates a rotating column of air.
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