Sentence examples for a powerful tornado from inspiring English sources

Ashanti (above) plays Dorothy, who gets her wish to leave Kansas, thanks to a powerful tornado.

A powerful tornado and hailstorm has killed at least 78 people on the outskirts of an eastern Chinese city.

Television meteorologists in Alabama, for instance, were able to show a powerful tornado approaching Tuscaloosa and Birmingham not just on Doppler radar, as most are accustomed to, but through live television cameras trained on the horizon.

In April 2011 Birmingham was struck by a powerful tornado (part of the Super Outbreak of 2011) that caused widespread damage in parts of the city and in the surrounding area.

(In this case the new construction came after the town was devastated by a powerful tornado in 2007; you may have seen the reality television series chronicling that process).

For example, a powerful tornado that does not pass near buildings or trees, causing little or no damage, may be given an EF-Scale value less than its true intensity.

In the US, an unusually powerful tornado struck eastern Montana on Saturday evening.

More than a week earlier, a far more powerful tornado than the one in El Reno devastated the town of Moore, south of Oklahoma City, destroying Plaza Towers Elementary School and killing seven of its students.

A tower-mounted news camera in Tuscaloosa captured images of an astonishingly thick, powerful tornado flinging debris as it leveled neighborhoods.

The piece, building on the discussion that has followed the deaths of three storm chasers in a powerful Oklahoma tornado last Friday, is written by Mike Smith, an entrepreneurial (and blogging) meteorologist focused on extreme weather.

WHEN did another, more powerful tornado touch down in the state?