Tornado Alert

Tornado Alert

可怕的龙卷风

Tornadoes are powerful storms. On a tornado day the air is hot and still. Clouds build up rapidly. They get thick and dark. In the distance there is thunder and lightning, rain and hail.

龙卷风是一种强风暴。当龙卷风即将来临,空气异常闷热。天上的云迅速聚集,越来越厚，越来越暗。远处有雷电，还下着暴雨和冰雹。

Here and there parts of the clouds seem to reach toward the ground. Should these parts grow larger and become funnel shaped, watch out. The funnels could become tornadoes.

天上布满了云团,并不断地压向地面。云团越来越大,慢慢变成了漏斗状。那就一定要小心了，这些漏斗状的云团可能会形成龙卷风!

The funnel of a tornado is usually dark gray or black. It may also be yellowish or red. The colors come from red and yellow dirt picked up by the tornado as it moves along the ground,

龙卷风的漏斗部分通常是灰黑色或黑色的，也有土黄色或红色的 颜色呈土黄色或红色,是因为龙卷风从地面席卷而过的时候,带走了很多黄色或红色的尘土。

Tornadoes can strike most anywhere, but usually they happen where there is a lot of flat land. Most tornadoes occur in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri. Florida also has a lot of tornadoes.

龙卷风几乎威胁到美国所有地区,但经常发生在有大片平地的地方。得克萨斯州、俄克拉荷马州、堪萨斯州、内布拉斯加州、爱荷华州、密苏里州都是饱受龙卷风侵袭的地方。佛罗里达州也经常有龙卷风天气。

Tornadoes can touch down over seas and lakes. When that happens, they are called waterspouts.

龙卷风也可能在海面或湖面上出现，在这种情况下，我们把它叫做水龙卷。