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The ingredients were classic
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Weiss said conditions favorable for tornadoes also extended over a very wide portion of the eastern third of the U.S., from Mississippi, where the storms originated, east to the mid-Atlantic coast and into the Ohio River Valley, reaching as far north as [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] far as Indianapolis. That allowed the storm system to thrive, and it may account for the widespread devastation on the ground, he said. The role of global warming in the phenomenon is unclear, he added, noting that it's hard to relate individual weather events to the long-term sweep of climate change, and that even if one could,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], there's "significant debate" in the scientific literature about whether warming will increase or decrease the number of tornadoes.
By Thursday afternoon, the storm system had edged into the Atlantic Ocean, and the danger of [link widoczny dla zalogowanych] additional tornados had subsided. Over the coming months, Carbin said, the National Weather Service will study the destruction to plot the twisters' paths and intensity, assigning them ratings from 0 to 5 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Three-second gusts at 65 to 85 mph are rated EF-0; twisters with gusts over 200 mph are rated EF-5.
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