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Explain why the speed of a whirl wind in a tornado is alarmingly high ?

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In the whirlwind of cyclone, the sir from the nearby region to concentrated in a small spoce As a result, the momentos of interia is decreased the angular speed of the momentum, the angular speed of the whirl wind become extremely high.
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