Dean Heffner Tornadoes Vs. Hurricanes tornadoes vs. Hurricanes. Dean Heffner. Task. Working in groups of two, one student will investigate hurricanes and the other will investigate tornadoes. http://www.berksiu.k12.pa.us/webquest/Heffner/
Extractions: Tornadoes vs. Hurricanes Dean Heffner Introduction Task Resources Process ... Conclusion Introduction Tornadoes and hurricanes are two severe storms that threaten millions of people, cause millions of dollars in damage, and affect the environment around the world each year. Both these storms are violent and damaging,your job as a group of meteorologists to try and figure out which of these two storms is the most violent and damaging. Task Working in groups of two, one student will investigate hurricanes and the other will investigate tornadoes. During your investigations you will be searching and recording information about tornadoes and hurricanes. After compiling all your information for your selected storm, meet with your group partner and share your findings. As a group you are to decide which storm is the most damaging and violent. The group is also responsible for a poster displaying the information that was found on each storm. Resources What are: Warning, Watches and Advisories Statements Eye On The World Severe Weather Safety Guide Intellicast ... Radar and Severe weather Process 1. Decide which storm person will be researching tornadoes and hurricanes.
Extractions: DETROIT, Michigan (CNN) Residents of suburban Detroit on Tuesday were cleaning up a day after at least two tornadoes overturned vehicles, uprooted trees and caused extensive damage to buildings. No serious injuries were reported. National Weather Service meteorologist David Koehler said that two tornadoes were confirmed Monday afternoon in Livingston, Oakland, Genesee and Lapeer counties in southeastern Michigan, and that numerous other funnel clouds were reported. A reported twister in Livingston County slammed a golf course, flipping over cars and golf carts and ripping off a part of a building. The storm also tore the roof off a house. In Oakland County, a barn was demolished. Lapeer County reported only minor damage. Wind and rain whipped through largely uninhabited areas, uprooting and snapping apart trees.
Tornadoes tornadoes. tornadoes are not just a phenomenon in this country; they occur on all continents but are most common in the United States and Australia. http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/pao/Educate/WeatherTalk2/indextornadoe.htm
Extractions: TORNADOES A tornado is a localized, but extremely destructive whirlwind that descends from the base of a thunderstorm. The twisting vortex extends earthward as a projecting funnel of powerful winds that sucks up roofs, trees, farmland and forests. Unlike the gentle transport of Dorothy in the "Wizard of Oz," these nasty storms can transform a residential area or main business street into a heap of rubble in just seconds. Tornadoes are not just a phenomenon in this country; they occur on all continents but are most common in the United States and Australia. Every state in the Union, including Hawaii and Alaska, has been touched by a tornado. Over a thousand tornadoes are observed annually in this country, but not all touch the surface or do significant damage. The greatest activity occurs in April, May, and June, but no month is free of them. Action is at a minimum in December and January. The most favorable areas for tornado activity include Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. Tornadoes vary greatly in size, track, and force making it difficult to provide a representative profile. More often than not the life span is limited to minutes during which they travel along a path that can vary in length from a few to many miles. Because of the variation in size and intensity the National Weather Service established 3 categories to identify them. The mini-tornado, with winds of less than 100 mph, lasts only a few minutes. The medium tornado has winds from 100-150 mph and lasts up to 20 minutes. The deadliest is the maxi-tornado with winds greater than 150 mph, lasts up to 3 hours and can cause damage along a path 1.5 miles wide and 200 miles long.
Extractions: The Web CNN.com Home Page World U.S. Weather ... Special Reports SERVICES Video E-Mail Services CNNtoGO SEARCH Web CNN.com Many homes were damaged in Rineyville, Kentucky, after storms struck overnight Sunday. Story Tools VIDEO A second twister in two days hits the Oklahoma City area, causing damage in suburban Bethany. (May 10) Multiple twisters hit Kansas Flooding continues in Southeast Tenn. hit hard by rain ... How a tornado forms RESOURCES Current watches, warnings and advisories National Climatic Data Center: Tornadoes Red Cross phone numbers: RINEYVILLE, Kentucky (CNN) Tornadoes ripped through towns in Kentucky and Illinois on Saturday night and Sunday morning, injuring several people and damaging scores of buildings. The twisters hit Rineyville and Harrodsburg, Kentucky, overnight. Late Saturday, tornadoes roared along a 130-mile corridor in Illinois, causing damage and injuries in 20 towns.
Tornadoes tornadoes. Explain your reasoning. tornadoes apparently form in a region of a strong updraft, yet they descend from the based of a cloud. Why? http://apollo.lsc.vsc.edu/classes/met130/notes/chapter15/tornadoes.html
Extractions: Tornadoes some tornadoes touch down briefly a few tornadoes have been observed to last for hours, creating a damage path 100's of km long most of the time, their occurence is isolated, but sometimes, tornado outbreaks occur Tornado distribution how strong can tornadic winds get QUESTIONS FOR THOUGHT: If you are confronted in an open field by a large tornado and there is no way that you could outrun it, probably the only thing that you could do would be to run and lie down in a depression. If given the choice, would you run toward your right or left as the tornado approaches? Explain your reasoning. Tornadoes apparently form in a region of a strong updraft, yet they descend from the based of a cloud. Why? figure from brooks et al. (2003)
Extractions: NASHVILLE, Tennessee (CNN) The severe weather that brought deadly tornadoes to Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas has reached the South, killing four people and damaging property in Tennessee, authorities said Thursday. "We've had damage reports from 30 of our 95 counties," Cecil Whaley of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency told CNN. High winds Wednesday night uprooted trees, ripped off roofs - - including from two churches and blew down power lines. At least 50,000 customers in Nashville were without electricity. With the exception of rural areas, Whaley expected power to be restored to most of the buildings by Friday morning. Funnel clouds were reported in eight counties, but there were no confirmed tornado touchdowns, agency spokesman Kurt Pickering said.
Weather & Kids - Tornadoes April, May, and June are the most active months for tornadoes. tornadoes can last from just a few seconds to more than an hour! Tornado Facts. http://www.weatherandkids.com/tornadoes.htm
Extractions: Tornado Facts Most tornadoes have winds of 70-100 miles per hour, but the biggest tornadoes have winds of 200-300 miles per hour. About 75 people die each year as a result of tornadoes. Tornadoes rank just behind lightning as a weather threat. About 1200 tornadoes touch down in the United States each year. Tornado Alerts Tornado Watch : A tornado might happen, be aware of the possibility of severe weather. Tornado Warning : A tornado has been detected. The word warning means take immediate action. Taking Cover In homes and small buildings, go to the basement or to an interior part of the lowest level (closets, bathrooms or interior halls). Get under something sturdy and cover your head. In schools, nursing homes, hospitals, factories and shopping centers, go to designated areas.
Stormy Weather Provides internet activities, and information on tropical storms and tornadoes. http://www.educationcentral.org/stormy/main.htm
Extractions: Why chase tornadoes? This is a question frequently asked of chasers. It is not something that can be answered while waiting for the elevator or in small conversation at a cocktail party. It touches many levels and requires a measured response to fully answer. If my experience is characteristic of most chasers, there are at least five levels at which we relate to the big storm. First is the sheer, raw experience of confronting an elemental force of nature -uncontrolled and unpredictable- which is at once awesome, magnificent, dangerous and picturesque. Few life experiences can compare with the anticipation of a chaser while standing in the path of a big storm, in the gusty inflow of warm, moist gulf wind -sweeping up into a lowering, darkening cloud base, grumbling with thunder as a great engine begins to turn. Second is the challenge to forecast accurately and consistently where these deadly storms will occur. In a field that is still very much state of the art, each chaser must draw upon science, experience and intuition. Every day is a new puzzle of atmospheric ingredients, different from the day before, or last week, or last year. There is no textbook for what we do, that works every time. Even the National Severe Storms Forecast Center misses some big ones (ergo Grand Island, June 3, 1980, etc.). Third is the sense of participation in a great event that comes with knowledge of the dynamics and structure of those storms. Knowing the turbulent mosaic of wind streams that weave over, around and through the towering thunderheads -and understanding their sources in the great rivers of air that sweep the continent- makes the observer almost bocome a part of that which he observes; as if - by force of will- he could detach himself from earth and ride the wind up into the storm's core.
Extractions: Languages Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW JACKSON, Nebraska (CNN) Residents and authorities were cleaning up Saturday from a series of tornadoes that swept through the Midwest Friday evening, flattening homes, downing trees and forcing the evacuation of several neighborhoods. Authorities helped residents leave the small town of Jackson, Nebraska, about 85 miles north of Omaha, after a tornado tore through around 6 p.m. (7 p.m. ET). It was not clear when they would be allowed to return. "At this point we're making assessments on the safety of various buildings and structures so we can determine when we can allow the residents back in," said Capt. David Winkler of the Nebraska State Patrol. The tornado did heavy damage to the small town which has a population of 300 destroying 10 homes, several businesses and Jackson Public School, an elementary school, said Winkler. Two children and one woman were injured, he said. The children suffered minor injuries and the woman was hospitalized with injuries that were not life-threatening.
Tornadoes tornadoes An Internet Hotlist on tornadoes. created by Instructional Technology Katy Independent School District. Top Ten tornadoes. Top Ten. Tornado Alley. http://www.katy.isd.tenet.edu/pathways/resources/sci/tornadoes5/TORNADOES.HTM
Extractions: Katy Independent School District Introduction All you need to know. Top Ten Tornadoes Tornado Alley ... Photos Going Around in Circles. To scientists who study them, twisters are the most fascinating storms on Earth. Let's say they're right ... and take a gander at the wild, whirling winds. Tornado photos
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Tornadoes: Nature's Most Violent Wind Contains information about tornadoes such as how they are formed, how they are ranked, and the structure of a tornado. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/tg/wtorwhat/wtorwhat.htm
Extractions: Source: USA TODAY research by Chad Palmer; Graphic by Chuck Rose Tornadoes: Nature's most violent wind Tornadoes have struck every U.S. state, including Alaska and Hawaii. But most tornadoes form in a belt from Nebraska southward through central Texas known as Tornado Alley and in the Southeast. Wind speeds in tornadoes can vary from 72 to almost 300 mph. Fortunately, only 2 percent of all tornadoes have winds greater than 200 mph. USATODAY.com partners: USA Weekend Sports Weekly Education Space.com ... Job Center
Tornadoes FLORIDA STORM WATCH tornadoes, STORM WATCH PAGES. What Time Are Florida s tornadoes Likely to Strike? Florida tornado climatology http://www.floridadisaster.org/bpr/EMTOOLS/Severe/tornadoes.htm
Extractions: F lorida ha s two Tornado Seasons. The Summer Season , from June until September has the highest frequencies with usual intensities of or on the Fujita Scale . This includes those tornadoes that form from landfalling Tropical Cyclones. The Deadly Spring Season , from February through April is characterized by more powerful tornadoes because of the presence of the jet stream. When the jet stream digs south into Florida and is accompanied by a strong cold front and a strong squall line of thunderstorms, the jet streams high level winds of 100 to 200 mph often strengthen a thunderstorm into what meteorologists call a supercell or mesocyclone. These powerful storms can move at speeds of 30 to 50 mph, produce dangerous downburst winds, large hail and the most deadly tornadoes.
Extractions: Web posted at: 3:50 a.m. EST (0850 GMT) SEARCY, Arkansas (CNN) A series of tornadoes raced across Arkansas on Thursday night, killing six people and wiping out a fire department in a rural area northeast of Little Rock. One person was killed in North Little Rock and another was killed in Little Rock as a result of the storms. Four people were killed in White County when tornadoes gutted the communities of Beebe and Center Hill. Numerous injuries were reported across the state. The twisters were spawned by a rapidly moving weather front heading east across the Ohio Valley and the South toward the Gulf Coast. The storm also brought baseball-sized hail, powerful winds and lightning. In the small farm community of Joy, the fire department was destroyed.
Tornadoes Electrogravidynamic Concept of tornadoes. by We see the hot gas in the tornadoes spiraling away from the sun and gathering speed. These http://www.tmgnow.com/repository/planetary/tornado.html
Extractions: Gary D.Goodwin THE MILLENNIUM GROUP 1. Introduction The functional role of these formations revealed by the study allowed to state that natural luminous atmospheric objects constitute a high-energy link in the Earth envelope interaction. Namely, the luminous phenomena serve as an indicator of functioning of high-energy domains of crust in the given place at the given time. The presence of vertical energy transport between the Earth core and it's gas-plasma envelopes influence the troposphere processes including large-scale vortex systems. Therefore the proposed approach to the study of physics and functional role of tornadoes is based on consideration and physical understanding of luminous phenomena as a trigger system forming vortex processes in Earth atmosphere. Thus, our concept of tornado constitutes three essential expansions of the whole research: 1. The study of time-space distribution of tornadoes, based on
Extractions: OAS_AD('Top'); Tornadoes, Severe Storms Ravage Midwest Monday, May 24, 2004 OAS_AD('Middle'); "The wife told me, `Let's get under the stairs," Richard Raley said. Raley and his wife, Karleen, huddled beneath the basement steps Saturday as a tornado search ripped away their house and much of the rest of the small village of Hallam. In all, more than a dozen tornadoes swept across southern Nebraska, killing at least one person and prompting Gov. Mike Johanns search to declare a state of emergency. The tornadoes were part of three days of severe weather that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of people from Nebraska to Michigan to West Virginia. Most had power restored Sunday. Severe thunderstorms slammed southern Michigan for a third day Sunday, triggering at least two late-afternoon tornadoes near the towns of Montrose and Williamston. There were no immediate reports of injuries or property damage. Flood waters search also swamped Lower Michigan, where about 85,000 customers remained without electricity Sunday. In Nebraska, Johanns confirmed the death of a 73-year-old Hallam woman, identified as Elaine A. Focken. The woman died after being struck by flying debris while trying to reach her basement, according to Johanns' spokeswoman, Terri Teuber.
