Murk Reed, age 11, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y.., for his question:

What makes a tornado storm?

Suppose you got into a towering rage:. Of course you wouldn't, but just lens suppose you yelled and threw things, plates, books and even bookcases. Of course you could not keep up this fury for long. You would soon spend all your energy and have to rest, all p1eyed out. Well, in a way that is what happens to an angry tornado. It uses its energy tearing down buildings, throwing automobiles and other heavy objects about in its path. And, like everything else on earth, it has only so much energy to use. When  a11 this energy is used up, the furious storm calms down and acts up no more.

The tornado rates as the most violent of all storms. Luckily for us it is small. Its path of total ‑fury is about a, quarter of a mile and from a few hundred yards to a few miles long. It passes overhead in about half a minute. During its short tantrum it can bring about total destruction wherever it touches the ground. But the tantrum can only last until all the stormy energy is used up.