Tornadoes sweep through central and southern Ohio

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/09/tornadoes_sweep_through_centra.html

This article is about a tornado that occured in Wooster, Ohio. There was a lot of damage done to a college campus. Greenhouses and bulidings were torn down. There was no serious injuries but there was a few minor ones. One man stated that the campus looked terrible becasue of all the damage.
"You can't really appreciate the damage done here without seeing it," he said. "The campus looks like a war zone. It's not just my building, but big bricks-and-mortar buildings are destroyed. The administration building was the hardest hit, but also the arboretum, with all its delicate plants, was badly damaged."

Rare November Tornadoes

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/109934214.html

Recently, a tornado was spotted on the ground of Wisconsin. It was measure to be the size of a football field and its distance traveled was around four miles.Most of the damages caused were to farm buildings and a few homes. Another tornado was also spotted in northern Illinois.

tornado chasers!

Chasing Tornadoes, Tornado Alley, Storm Chasing - National Geographic

This article is somewhat long but I found it fascinating to read. It explains how stormchasers set up things called turtles that can measure the different aspects of a tornado. It tells a couple of stories of how people have escaped quickly and survived bad storms and how one man was sucked into a tornado and was still living. The turtles, also known as probes are so strong that they can stay in place when tornado winds go past them. They are able to catch pretty accurate measurments of the tornado winds, shape and size.

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/natural-disasters/tornado-profile/
This article is about how tornados form by changes in wind speed its direction. The main region where tornados take place is know as Tornado Alley and nearly 80 deaths per year occur there. The United States is a hot spot for tornados