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[Lili6]

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In 2011, the April-June tornado season in the US has been the second-deadliest on record, with around 500 deaths thus far. A typical year sees around 100 US deaths due to tornadoes and the record was 519 in 1953.

This year, around 1,000 total tornadoes have inflicted unpredented damage throughout "Tornado Alley", the large area between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains.

The bulk of the 2011 fatalities and property damage have occurred during two major tornado outbreaks.

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Hello Lilly,

I am trying to read out your text. Not that I would be a native person, me also I'm slowly getting grips with the good English pronunciation but firstly: practice makes perfect, secondly: I am interested in your article.

In advance of not finding the word "unpredented" so I am saying instead of it: unprecedented.

Bye: Kati Svaby
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Hi Lili,

I wanted also write about these tornadoes.

Searching for victims

A week after a "supercell" of deadly tornadoes tore through the South, authorities were still digging through the rubble for the dead. "There are still people that ain't been found.",said Alabama resident Doug Bryant, who counts 22 of his relatives homeless after the storms. At least 236 people died in Alabama, power was out for hundreds of thousands, and more than 15 schools sustained major damage. The 1.5-mile-wide twister that cut a path of destruction from Tuscaloosa to Birmingham killed 65 people, making it the deadliest single tornado in the country in more than 50 years, with winds measuring up to 190 miles an hour. The huge twister was part of a storm system that traveled from Mississippi to North Carolina, spawning other powerful tornadoes on its nearly 400-mile journey.During one 24-hour period last week, the National Weather Service estimated that 226 tornadoes killed a total of 334 people, making in the deadliest single day for tornadoes since 1925.

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/From: THE WEEK May 13,2011/

supercell: is a thunderstorm is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone.
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