With winds that can reach speeds of three hundred miles an hour and funnel clouds that can measure a mile in diameter, tornadoes leave enormous damage in their wake. Now Seymour Simon examines these twisting columns of air and destruction. Simon explains how tornadoes are formed, why and when they are most likely to occur, how scientists classify and track them -- and what to do if one touches down. Full-color photographs show this powerful phenomenon...

Dr. Christopher Weiss and Roger Hill track a lethal F4 tornado and show the horrific effects tornadoes have. Also features two sisters who put their lives at risk to track supercell storms. As seen on National Geographic.

An introduction to tornadoes explains how they form, the scale used for classifying them, and what to do when a tornado approaches.

An Australian wombat joins the Champs baseball team, and even though he is disastrously ignorant about the game, his innate talents save everyone when a tornado suddenly strikes.

In the aftermath of a deadly twister, police chief Charlie Grover suspects that the members of the Pepper family died at the hands of a killer rather than the storm, and investigates with the assistance of weather expert Willa Bellman.

In 1999, a twister touched down in Oklahoma City. But this was not a typical Midwestern funnel cloud--it was a "Mega Tornado" with winds swirling at 318 miles per hour. It scoured the earth for 85 minutes along a 38-mile path, killing 43 people and causing hundreds of millions of dollars of damage. Torndao Alley Twister revisits that storm.---publisher's website.

A riveting tale of the weather's most vicious monster--the supercell tornado--that recreates the origins of meteorology, and the quirky, pioneering, weather-obsessed scientists who helped change America.

When a tornado threatens his farm, Otis the tractor must try to save the animals, including the unfriendly bull.

When a tornado touches down in a pond on Farmer Brown's property, it sets off a chain of events among the barnyard animals that soon has every creature displaced, but not unhappy.