EDIT OUT UNNECESSARY WORDS

Question

1. Tornado Alley is the nickname given to the area around northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, where tornados tend to occur more often than in other parts of the country.

2. There has been a pattern over the last few years in the United States of seeing more than a thousand tornados a year, the majority of which touch down in Tornado Alley.

3. It used to be the case that residents of Tornado Alley got little notice or warning in the event that a storm was on its way.

4. When they saw a low cloud that was large in size, grayish-yellow in color, and shaped like a funnel, they knew they had to race quickly to a storm shelter.

5. Gary England, chief meteorologist at Oklahoma City’s Channel 9 and the area’s most famous TV weather personality, has dedicated his work and career to tracking tornados and predicting their course.

Answer 1

For sentences 2 and 3:

2. There has been a pattern over the last few years in the United States of seeing more than a thousand tornados a year, the majority of which touch down in Tornado Alley.

The United States has seen over a thousand yearly tornados in the last few years, mostly in the Tornado Alley.

3. It used to be the case that residents of Tornado Alley got little notice or warning in the event that a storm was on its way.

Tornado Alley residents used to get little warning of oncoming storms.

Answer 2

The question is asking you to shorten the sentences by taking out unnecessary words to create brevity. For number 1, my answer would be:

1. Tornado Alley is the nickname given to the area around northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, where tornados tend to occur more often than in other parts of the country. ------>

1. Tornado Alley is the nickname given to northern Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, where tornados occur more often than in other parts of the country.