Severe weather

Background and overview: Tornados are one of the most damaging atmospheric hazards as they reach incredible wind speeds and cause great damage that is beyond repair. In the USA, on average, 60 people die each year from tornados. This is usually from falling or flying debris. 1.1 DESCRIPTION Tornados can be casually described as a cylinder spinning with a Smokey colour to it from the ground damage or other that is trapped inside the cylinder. Tornados are a column of air that maintains contact…

Tornadoes By Devon Bankemper Introduction Once, we knew nothing about tornadoes and didn't even know they existed. Suddenly, tornadoes started tearing apart homes and killing people. Then, we needed to know “What is a tornado?” Did you know that one of the biggest tornadoes was 2 miles long? In this article you will learn how tornadoes form, how we can be safe and what tornadoes are the deadliest. Facts And How Tornadoes Form So, what is a tornado and when does it happen? Well, tornadoes…

communities and devastate families in a matter of minutes, maybe even seconds. And tornadoes are unpredictable so one cannot simply know when a tornado is coming. Tornadoes are a safety hazard to all states of America, especially now when the whole world’s weather is tipped off from global warming. Are you ready for a tornado strike? One should always be ready for a strike. Prepare food supplies and medical supplies for storm incase of emergencies. One should also…

In Jack London’s “To Build a Fire,” an unnamed man and his husky riskily travel through the Yukon area in bitter, cold temperatures with the hope of reaching a camp (and his friends) by the evening. The man faces the consequences of frostbite in the process of traveling in such harsh conditions. He builds a few fires to keep warm, and to battle freezing off his fingers and toes, but soon his own conscience drives him crazy. When it becomes impossible for the man to construct a fire with his…

home in seconds. Tornadoes can be the worst in many ways, with there strong winds, how big they are and how they can pop up so fast. The reason or part of the reason they can be so dangerous is because of the shape. Because tornadoes are such deadly weather events, it is important for people to know about the different types of tornadoes and how they can effect the places they occur. The rope tornado is the least damaging tornado of them all. Tornadoes have…

Nature is at once worthy of awe and fear. Each day, natural forces impact people around the globe, usually in a relatively harmless way. However, natural events can quickly become disasters in the right conditions, as is the case with tornadoes and hurricanes. In the middle of the United States, “Tornado Alley” stretches roughly from Texas to upper South Dakota. This coincides with the Great Plains—an area of flat, open land that practically bisects the continental United States. Here,…

tornado, dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops below a heavy cumulonimbus cloud mass and extends toward the earth. The funnel twists about, rises and falls, and where it reaches the earth causes great destruction. The diameter of a tornado varies from a few feet to a mile; the rotating winds may attain velocities of 200 to 300 mi (320–480 km) per hr, and the updraft at the center may reach 200 mi per hr. The Enhanced Fujita scale is the standard scale for…

The question is how would we implement the concepts of the Weather-Ready Nation at the Marquette office? Firstly, one must understand the basic concepts of Weather-Ready nation. The basics boil down to activity inside the office and outside. Inside the office personnel must be trained to work with new ideas, techniques and technology. Impact-based Decision Support Services (IDSS) is one of these concepts. Part of this concept is to develop Better Forecasts and Warnings and extend Forecast…

Did you that the United States have over 1200 tornados a year. Now I’m am going to teach you about tornados. Tornados make by warm air and cold air colliding this is because. The warm air is higher than the cold air and they are also moving different directions so that makes a tornado. In addition most tornadoes happen east of the rocky mountains and west of the gulf of mexico because all the hot air is coming from the gulf of mexico an the rocky mountains produces all the cold air and when they…

Hurricanes and Tornadoes Essay Whoa!! The roof just flew off my house!! Hurricanes and tornadoes are storms that can destroy anything and everything in its path. They're arguably the deadliest storms in the world. Just the winds from these storms easily destroy homes. One hurricane or tornado can kill over a 1,000 people. These storms have many similarities and differences. Similarities and differences of hurricanes and tornadoes can be found in size and characteristics, costs and damage, and…