There can be deaths, also, but only 5% of tornado deaths are caused by Weak Tornadoes. The next type is Strong Tornado. Significant Tornadoes (F2), which travel from 113 to 157 miles per hour and Severe Tornadoes (F3), which travel from 158 to 206 miles per hour, are classified as Strong Tornadoes. Theyusually last for about more than 20 minutes and can cause extensive damages: roofs of well-constructed buildings can be ripped off, trains can be overturned, and even large old trees can be uprooted and snapped. Not only properties and nature are damaged, but also human.
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.
Tornadoes will occasionally softly "glow" due to lightning discharges in or near them. The sound of a tornado varies widely. It is actually a combination of many different sounds, usually created by rushing air and damage to ground structures. Most commonly, the sound of a tornado is described as a whooshing roar. The temperature is generally lower inside a tornado.
Initially, hurricanes are formed over warm water in the tropical oceans and develop best when far from the jet stream while tornadoes are formed over land and formed within storms that are often very close to the jet stream. Other than that, hurricanes can be up to several hundred miles wide while tornadoes are usually not more than a quarter of a mile. Besides that, hurricanes can last up to 3 weeks while tornadoes usually last not more than an hour. Likewise, the strength of the wind of hurricanes are usually 180 mph while the maximum strength of the wind of tornadoes can be up to 300 mph. Additionally, hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean with an average of 10 tropical storms
“Hurricane Mitch was more destructive than Andrew because of a variety of factors.” Mitch is considered to be the most deadly hurricane in the last 200 years in the Atlantic, stronger and more intense than Hurricane Andrew, having caused the most serious material damage in history. In Mitch, 4 countries were affected (Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador and Guaternala) whereas in Andrew only a fraction of South America was seriously affected. In Mitch 10ml people were left homeless without shelter and aid, with mothers washed out to see and thousands trapped, as well as the possibility of more floods. In Andrew hundreds and thousands of people were without food but food and water were provided sooner than they were to the poor countries that Mitch affected. A
The Misunderstood Phenomenon Have you ever seen a tornado up close before? Do you even know what a tornado really is? How is it formed and what it is made of? Don’t feel ashamed if you don’t know much about them, you are not alone. 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.
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
A severe thunderstorm, by the definition provided by the Bureau of Meteorology can be hail with a diameter of 2 cm or more (about the size of $2 coin), wind gusts of 90 km/h or greater, flash floods, which is often the result of slow moving thunderstorms that causes a small area to receive most of the rain, tornadoes which are the rarest and most violent of the thunderstorm phenomena, or any combination of these. During a thunderstorm there will definitely be lightning and thunder but it is known that when struck, people do not glow or ‘fry to a crisp’ although the heart and breathing are often affected. Although most thunderstorms do not reach the level of intensity needed to produce these dangerous phenomena, all of them do produce lightning which can cause injury, damage, and even death. Thunderstorms occur throughout the world including the Polar Regions. Sever storms occur frequently in tropical rainforest area.
The downside to the central highlands though are multiple thunderstorms that cause incredible damage due to lighting strikes. The capital, Antananarivo, receives almost all its average annual 1.4 meters of rainfall between the months of November and April. The dry season is nice and sunny but can be cooler in the morning time. Frost is common at the highest elevations in Madagascar and provides some of the clearest blue skies to view in the world. The west coast is much drier than the central highlands and east coast due to the winds losing humidity by the time they reach this side of island.
They are born from tropic waters that affect quite a few across the world but in the Gulf of Mexico they tend to wreak particular havoc. These storms have potential for mass devastation through storm surges that flood the coastline often taking lives and possible contamination of water supplies, heavy rain which contributes to flooding situations and high winds coupling with tornadoes that destroy property, Storm surges are among one of the worst factors of a hurricane. Often, at the time, people do not even realize the impacts a storm surge can have and do not head authorities warnings to evacuate the coastline, which can result in a high death toll. As Jay Barnes notes in his research: As a hurricane churns across the open sea, the combined effects of the storm’s lowered barometric pressure and strong, inward-spiraling winds create a deep, swirling column of water beneath the ocean’s surface. This effect causes the sea level to rise in the vicinity of the storm, creating a dome of water that may be a few feet high in the center and a hundred miles wide.