other they get locked together, and the hot air spirals upwards 45 more quickty until it may be whirling round at between 400 to. 500 mph. Tornadoes do a vast amount of damage, even though they seldom last for more than an hour or two. The speed of the whirling air makes extremely small things such as grains of sand into dangerous weapons. Once in America a corn cob picked up by u tornado was shot through 50 a horse's skull al C Killed the horse. The hot air spiralling upwards sucks up everything in its path, like a vacuum cleaner does. Tornadoes have been known to tear steel bridges from their foundations, tn uproot large trees, and to lift trains off their lines. People and animals have been lifted and carried some distance a horse. for example, was once picked 55 up, carried 2 miles, and put down again unhurt. Queer things happen, such as corks flying out of bottles and closed boxes and houses exploding as the air within them rushes out with great violence. A waterspout is a tornado that happens over the sea. The whirling air sucks up water. And the waterspout moves along with a hissing. roaring.