Tornadoes could probably be considered as one of the most violent natural occurring disasters known to mankind. They are the funnel-shaped thunderstorms that spiral around the area where atmosphere pressure is low. Tornadoes are usually classified by using the Fujita Wind Damage Scale. According to the damage caused, there are actually seven types of tornadoes, but they can be classified into three main types: weak tornadoes, strong tornadoes and violent tornadoes. Most of the occurring tornadoes are Weak Tornadoes.They consist of Gale Tornadoes (F0) and Moderate Tornadoes (F1).
Hurricanes and Tornadoes Hurricanes and tornadoes are the two most deadly storms which hit the United States every year. Often confused with each other hurricanes and tornadoes contribute to over 80 deaths a year. Hurricanes and tornadoes are similar and different in many ways. The experiences of living through a hurricane or tornado can be life changing. Both tornadoes and hurricanes destroy homes, businesses, and take people lives.
On may 4th, 2007 a little after 9:48 pm Greensburg Kansas was torn of the map. Tornado sirens went off in Greensburg 20 minutes before the tornado hit. That saved many lives. The tornado was so wide a storm chaser who was chasing the storm couldn’t get both edges of the tornado to fit in the lens of the camera. 1.7 miles was the estimated width of the tornado and it traveled
Hail and Tornadoes Description and Classification Tornadoes According to the Glossary of Meteorology, A tornado is "a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud." Tornadoes occur all over the world, but are especially prevalent in the United States. Tornadoes usually have wind speeds between 40 and 110 mph, forward speeds approximately 30 mph, and are usually around 250 feet across. They generally travel only a few miles before dissipating. The word "tornado" comes from the Spanish or Portuguese verb tornar, meaning "to turn."
Normally you would think that if you hear the word “tornado” you would start panicking and start asking where and when is it going to happen. What would you say if someone tells you: “ Did you see the beautiful tornado that was formed yesterday in the evening”; you start wondering why that person used the word beautiful and tornado in the same sentence. People see tornadoes as dangerous natural phenomenons, but they don’t tend to know much about their power and are blinded by what they are told and shown, that their idea of what a tornado really is, is actually a distorted image. A tornado is a rotating column of air, in contact with the ground. In order to be a tornado it has to be in contact with both the ground and the cloud base.
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Snow can also stick to power lines and cause power outages. Back in October of 1997 on a seemingly mild start of the day. There was a huge thunderstorm, where later in the day a massive snowstorm that came in from the Rocky Mountains. The clouds produced about two feet of snow into Lincoln, causing major power
We can also see this gothic atmosphere in chapter six when she writes “the darkness and storm increased every minute, and the thunder burst with a terrific crash over my head (Pg. 48).” Another example of a gothic atmosphere can be seen as Victor describes how he feels when he finds out about the monster killing his brother “ No one can conceive the anguish I suffered during the remainder of the night, which I spent, cold and wet in the open air. But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair
Cities are located near dangerous earthquake zones all throughout the country, from the most infamous on the West Coast to potential time bombs in the Midwest and even on the Eastern Seaboard. Stretching from northern Vancouver Island in Canada to northern California is the Cascadia subduction zone, where one giant plate of the Earth's surface is diving deep beneath another one. “The very largest earthquakes all occur on subduction zones”, said seismologist Geoffrey Abers at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in New York. "These are also the faults that make very large tsunamis that propagate across ocean basins to cause a lot of damage.” This means that our home state, Washington, falls into that “at risk” category. The earthquake threat in Washington is
People often question why the earth has recently had so many earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards. The answer this is relatively simple; these violent natural disasters are the earth’s form of white blood cells. You see, as humans, we have become like a parasite to the planet and the earth’s storms are there to counter-act the parasites. Recently I have come across a man living in India, one of the most overcrowded places on this planet. He informed me that people in India are living in with five families in building meant only for one.