Severe weather

specific storms, how they move, where they are most common and potentially the damaged they can cause to the land and people who live in those areas. If these storms possess forceful winds causing a great amount of damage they fall under wind-based category. Wind-based Violent Storms Wind-based storms main ingredient is wind. The storms that use wind to create violence are thunderstorms, tornadoes, and cyclones. Numerous of these storms exist prominently in certain areas of the world, but have the capability to happen anywhere. In Physical geography, geographers track storms and record the data for future review allowing us to see patterns in weather. With the data collected geographers can tell that the thunderstorm causes the most damage yearly.…

The Joplin Effect Natural disasters are defined as major adverse events that result from the natural processes on earth. These events include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic events that can cause loss of life or severe property damage. The severity of the adverse event depends on the affected population’s ability to recover from such an event as well as the infrastructure available. Weather (meteorological) disasters are adverse…

The states that experience the highest number of tornadoes are Texas, Kansas, Florida, Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Mississippi. Not only do these states have the highest number of tornadoes, but they also have some of the most dangerous and devastating tornadoes. The Enhanced Fujita Scale can describe just how strong these tornadoes can get. These scales are based on the damage they cause after a tornado. There are six different categories on the scale that range from 0-5. EF0 describes minor or no…

Every type of severe weather type is dangerous. Tornadoes and hurricanes are also included. You should always be able to know what qualifies these severe weather events, so in a real-life situation, you can be prepared. Recognizing what a tornado looks like can really help you for future reference. Identifying a tornado before it strikes will definitely come in handy! I dont think you want to die! Now please, stick around! Tornadoes look like a funnel or cone. To start, they are really just…

Have you ever seen a powerful wind storm that destroyed houses, uprooted, and totaled cars? What are these mysterious, naturally occurring wind storms? Nobody truly knows how long these mysterious wind storms have been around. They do know this; that they are naturally occurring. These mysterious wind storms are called tornadoes. Tornadoes are very destructive and can cause people to be homeless. What are tornadoes? A tornado is a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having…

Weather: Tornadoes What are tornadoes, “the violently rotating winds of destruction”? A tornado is defined as a mobile, violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The Damage that a tornado can cause depends on the wind speed and the size. The most Violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be in excess of one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred…

Tornado Alley. Tornadoes are most common in spring and least common in winter, but can occur any time of the year when conditions are right. Tornado occurrence is highly dependent on the time of day, because of solar heating. Worldwide, most tornadoes happen in the late afternoon between 3 and 9 pm with a peak at about 5 pm. Attempts to warn people of tornadoes began in the United States in the mid twentieth century. Before 1950, the only way of detecting a tornado was by someone seeing it on…

I felt my insides flipping inside out as I watched the winds forcefully whisk the lake around, the waves angry. The pool was overflowing with water, the chairs were being thrown across the pool, against the gates by the forces of nature. The sky was getting darker and darker as the monster moved closer. Jolting from the clouds were sparks of flashes, lightning bolts touching the tip of the highest wave and disappearing back into the sky. My toes were tingling with fear, I wanted to disappear…

Tornado? Do you know what causes a tornado? This paper is going to tell you facts about tornadoes, how they are formed, what causes a tornado, the speed, the weather conditions and the mass widespread damage that tornadoes can cause. According to www.livescience.com (2018), First of all, a tornado usually occurs when high winds within a low pressure system causes water vapor in the air to form a funnel cloud. From our perspective it looks like someone is stirring the storm up from above that is…

Thousands of tornadoes have ripped through the United States over recent history. The EF5 tornado that occurred in Joplin, Missouri happens to be the most expensive tornado on record. Tornadoes occur during some severe thunderstorms; winds spiral horizontally, then turn vertically, a funnel cloud forms which ends up reaching the ground, which is the tornado. Some tornadoes can be minor while others can cause dozens of deaths and millions, if not billions, of dollars in damage. Winds can reach…