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NOVA

Season 12 · Episode 17

Tornado!

0.055mNovember 19, 1985

NOVA follows a chase team—a group of scientists who chart deadly Tornadoes—in an effort to learn more about predicting nature's most powerful and elusive weather phenomenon.

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Episode 1Edgerton and His Incredible Seeing Machines
Episode 2Global Village
Episode 3Conquest of the Parasites
Episode 4In the Land of the Polar Bears
Episode 5AIDS: Chapter One
Episode 6The Shape of Things
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Episode 11The National Science Test II
Episode 12Seeds of Tomorrow
Episode 13What Einstein Never Knew
Episode 14The Robot Revolution?
Episode 15The Magic of Special Effects
Episode 16Child Survival: The Silent Emergency
Episode 17Tornado!
Episode 18The Genetic Gamble
Episode 19Animal Architects
Episode 20The Plane that Changed the World