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The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany is now home to more than just automobiles. The museum has been recognized by the Guinness Book of Records for creating the "strongest artificially generated tornado in the world." The 34.4 meter high (that is 37.2 yards to those metrically challenged) vortex was not designed as an attraction, but to channel smoke out of the building in the event of a fire. The architecture wonderment that is the museum did not make use of any fire doors in the design (surely they would get in the way of the architect's vision). In order to meet regulations, the building engineers had to determine a way to keep smoke from spreading beyond the fire level, the tornado is the resulting solution. The twister takes around seven minutes to materialize and is generated by 144 jets and 28 tons of air. The low pressure area at the center of the tornado works to create a jet stream that draws smoke out of the building's corridors and funnels it upwards and out an exhaust vent on the roof. Check the gallery for photos of a carbon dioxide infused tornado demonstration.


Check out the video of Mercedes' artificial tornado after the jump.

[Source: Mercedes-Benz]

Gallery: Mercedes-Benz Museum Tornado

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Early Saturday evening, enthusiasts were enjoying themselves at the annual Corvettes at Carlise event in Carlisle, PA. Their late summer evening, however, would be interrupted by a series of severe thunderstorms that wreaked havoc in the Carlisle area that evening. While it seems the storms cannot officially be called a tornado (no one mentioned sighting any funnels), many attendees who experienced the violent weather likened them to one.

The thunderstorms hit the Corvettes at Carlisle show around 7:30PM EST and injured at least 17 people while causing serious damage to many of the Corvettes in attendance. One man who was attempting to leave the show had a tree fall on his Corvette while he was exiting. From the picture above you can see much of the damage was the result of tents being blown over by the high winds, which reportedly reached over 70 mph. Fortunately, there were no fatalities, and while a field of damaged Corvettes sitting in mud puddles is certainly something over which we can all shed a tear, it could have been a lot worse.

You can check out more pics of the damage by clicking either the Corvetteblogger or Corvetteforum links below.

[Source: Pennlive.com, Corvetteblogger, Corvetteforum]

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