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“Tornadoes were charted by the Fujita scale, named after Professor Tetsuya Fujita of Kitakyushu, Japan, a man known in press reports as ‘Mr. Tornado.’ Through his work on tornado classification, Mr. Tornado discovered a peculiar meteorological phenomenon that he named a ‘microburst.’ A microburst was a strong, localized air current that caused wind to change direction and speed rapidly. Mr. Tornado determined that this freakish phenomenon was responsible for most unsolved airline crashes.”