Guangzhou Electric Power Equipment was destroyed by tornado. What should I do when encountering tornado?

Science Fiction Network June 20 (Wang Ziyu) Recently, there have been severe weather in many places in my country. In Henan, high -temperature weather has continued to online, and even the hot weather above 40 ° C appeared. In Guangdong, there was also a heavy rain and tornado.

According to the official micro -news of the central government officials in Guangzhou, due to the impact of heavy rain and tornado, local power supply lines were damaged. According to reports, this time the tornado that appeared in Conghua Taiping Town, Guangzhou lasted for about 3 minutes, was a level 6 gust of gusts. Although the duration does not last long, the impact is still unreasonable because the tornado has passed through the population dense and the building dense areas.

Tornado is the strongest vortex in the atmosphere, mostly in tropical and temperate areas. It can be divided into multi -vortex tornado, land tornado, water tornado, etc. according to the shape and environment. Generally speaking, thunderstorms are the main causes of tornado. The wind speed of the tornado is more than 100-175 meters per second, and the duration is usually within 1 hour, most of them.

Globally, there are tornado records in the continents outside the Antarctica, but it is mainly concentrated in the middle and latitudes. Among them, the United States is the most frequent country in tornado, and the tornado that occurs accounts for about 75%of the total number of global tornado, followed by Canada. The tornado that occurs in my country is also more frequent.

What should I do if I encounter a tornado? First of all, to avoid the underground space in time, such as the basement. If you encounter a tornado outside, you must quickly run in the vertical direction of the tornado direction, but stay away from the telephone poles, big trees, billboards, walls, etc.

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