True tornado survival stories -- Amazing facts from history and today.

Real kids. Real disasters.

This edition is available for distribution only through the school market.

Earth Science -- Weather.

Includes bibliographical references.

introduction: The Devil's Wind. "Everybody Must Be Dead": The Tri-State Tornado, 1925. The Tri-State Files : My Research Journey -- The Tri-State Tornado: By the Numbers -- Path of Destruction: The Tri-State's 219 Mile Journey of Death -- After the Tornado: Shattered Lives, Shattered Land -- If You Lived in the 1920s -- Adventures in Weather Science -- John Finley: Tornado Genius -- History's Deadliest Tornadoes. The Evil Swirling Darkness: The Joplin Tornado of 2011. The Joplin Files : My Journey to Joplin -- The Strength of Joplin -- The Joplin Tornado: By the Numbers -- Why the US is the World Capital of Tornadoes -- Can You Speak Tornado? -- The Man Called Mr. Tornado -- Hail Horrors -- World of Storm Chasers -- When a Storm Chase Turns Deadly -- Staying Safe in Tornadoes.

The Tri-State Tornado of 1925 was the deadliest tornado strike in American history, tearing through three states and killing 700 people. Almost a century later, the Joplin Tornado was a mile-wide monster that nearly destroyed the heart of a vibrant city. The author of the "New York Times" best-selling "I Survived" series now brings you the vivid and true stories of two young people who survived these terrifying twisters, along with fascinating facts about tornadoes and profiles of the well-respected scientists and storm chasers who study them.--