Thunderstorm

Did you know that the average speed of a tornado is 30 miles per hour? Well, the Tri-State Tornado traveled 70 miles per hour. The average distance of a tornado is 100 miles. It killed 695 people, and injured 2027 people. It was the most deadly tornado ever to occur, so many people remember it. The Tri-State Tornado occurred in Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. (Tornadoes devastate Tupelo and Gainesville) Firstly, a tornado is a spinning vortex of wind, which can carry anything up to about 75…

How To Manage Hurricane Related Disasters Hurricanes starts as tropical storms over the warm moist waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans near the equator mostly near the Philippines and the China Sea, hurricanes are also called typhoons. As the moisture evaporates, it rises until enormous amounts of heated moist air are twisted high in the atmosphere. The air swirling at a high velocity then makes its way to the earth surface on the way picking more air and hence strength enough…

This article examines warning times and its affect on death rates of tornadoes. Simmons and Sutter provide background research on the NEXRAD radar that has improved warnings by upgrading measurements on winds, rainfall and detecting tornadoes. Simmons and Sutter conclude that tornadoes from the past 75 years have been less deadly. Previous research also shows that lead times increased from 5.3 to 9.5 minutes after the invention of the WSR – 88D radar. Background research has indicates shown that…

CREEK as Dallas opens the barn door a gust of cool wind hits him “hmm that’s strange” said Dallas.It wasnt like this when I came in here just a couple hours ago. Dallas walks out carrying two pails of milk from the cows. As he struggles up the farmhouse porch steps carrying the two heavy pails. He hears something unusual he turns around and the windmill is going faster than ever CLINK CLINK CLINK. usually it goes slower than that Dallas thought. But then out of the corner of his eye he sees…

Living Through The Dust Storm Of 1870 One afternoon in I saw the puff and it was black, “it’s back again I yelled”. I was sitting in my home shelter with my mommy Rachel, daddy Steve, brother Liam, brother Bostynn, sister Brynn sister Aaliyah and myself Jaycee. It was 1870 and we were in a very dirty dusty house because of the storm that just rolled through. It was a dust storm and we survived through it. Right before the storm came through mommy and daddy were supposed to get married. Then…

The roar of the one-hundred and forty miles per hour wind shook our house. All I could hear was the creaking and cracking of the walls and floorboards in our kitchen. “Grab anything you can!” my mom yells worriedly. The lights flickered on and off as the storm water slowly but steadily seeped into our small, single story home. I held the flashlight as my mom and dad quickly grabbed food and water out of the cabinet. “Eddy, keep the light on the cabinet!” Yells my dad. The murky water was up…

A rumbling rouses me. The plane is jolting around as rain pounds against the windows like bullets. Me and Aviva tightly grasp each other's arms. Outside my small window I see nothing but swirls of gray and black chaos as a flash of lightning arcs across the sky. The sky that was once a cloudy, smoky gray is now dangerous. A deep rumble of thunder makes me jump. I see nervous glances exchanged around me as the lights buzz and flicker. The sound of voices around me climbs higher as panic rises.The…

TORNADO WARNING BANG CRASH!! the window fly's open, I run to my room in fear wondering when the storm will stop. My parents Steve and Venessa, my brother Harry and I were sitting in the family room, when a tornado warning came through on the UHF radio. This was my brother and I's first tornado so it was a big and scary thing for us. We had only heard of them through our parents and the news. All the windows started to shake and fly open and you could tell the wind was getting stronger and…

It all started out unexpectedly. The storm began to get worse, sounds of the storm roared the atmosphere, with rage. Everything felt like a blur. Fog spurred over the plains of the battlefield, it was as if the battlefield was abandoned, because of silence that brought cries to each to each dead soul. I could see the soldiers getting ready, praying for there last. Time was running, fast as an earthquake destroys land within seconds. It was coming to dawn, brave troops waiting to fight for…

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…