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Several eyewitness accounts report that tornadoes are hollow.
The walls are thin and the inside walls appear smooth. Lightning has also been seen inside tornadoes. In 1959, a pilot bailed out of his crippled airplane at 47,000 feet. His parachute opened after he fell into a large thunderstorm. Tornadoes , a look at different shapes and sizes.