Haley‚ Jennifer Professor Underwood Phsc 2010-A05 Elements of Earth Science November 6‚ 2013 Short Report on Tornadoes Introduction A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. A violent tornado is capable of enormous amount of destruction with wind speeds up to 300 miles per hour. The tornados can reach up to one mile wide and fifty miles long. A report I read said in an average year‚ 1‚500 tornados are
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natural disasters. These hazards can include a tsunami‚ tornadoes‚ earthquakes‚ and tropical storms which can turn into hurricanes. All of these hazards are formed simply by Mother Nature and can’t be prevented. Tornadoes are stemmed from strong thunderstorms and can produce large hail and high winds. I’ve learned that it’s when hot
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Ministry of Educational Zone Tornado INTRODUCTION The word tornado is an altered form of the Spanish word tronada‚ which means thunderstorm. This in turn was taken from the Latin tonare‚ meaning to thunder. It most likely reached its present form through a combination of the Spanish tronada and tornar. A tornado is also commonly referred to as a twister‚ and is also sometimes referred to by the old-fashioned colloquial term HYPERLINK http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone o Cyclone cyclone. HYPERLINK
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stormy atmospheric systems that can cause great destruction‚ but they differ in length‚ speed and intensity‚ and climatic influences. Tornadoes have diameters on the scale of the 100’s of meters and are produced by a single storm‚ such as a thunderstorm or a cumulonimbus. The diameter of a tornado’s eye is only a few feet in diameter‚ while the diameter of a hurricane’s eye is 10-20 miles. Because tornadoes move rapidly‚ they could cause more damage than their size might suggest. A hurricane‚
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can really do? Tornadoes are one of the most deadly types of weather known to man. Tornadoes are very destructive things that can do a lot of damage in a short period of time. These things all start with a super cellular storm. A super cell is a thunderstorm
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Hurricanes and Tornadoes are two of the most violent natural disasters known to mankind. There are many similarities and differences between these two disasters. While there are many differences between the two‚ The severe similarities are as dramatic. Although the bear some minor differences‚ The similarities between hurricanes and tornadoes are clear because they both have early warning systems‚ create massive destruction‚ and involves heavy wind speeds that can end up deadly. Both hurricanes
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to your town. For example‚ New York didn’t know they were going to have an earthquake‚ which happened during the summer. That shows that any storm can happen anywhere‚ so always be prepared. Different things like snow‚ ice‚ high winds‚ severe thunderstorms‚ tornados‚ and hurricanes can cause power outages. Depending on the destruction‚ it takes time to het power back on‚ clear away debris‚ deliver new poles‚ wire‚ transformers‚ and other equipment‚ and to do the actual rebuilding. There are many
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Storm in the Black forest is written by D.H Lawrence during the 1800’s.Lawrence is describing a storm in the Black Forest (a huge forest in southern Germany)‚ which he has seen when visiting there in July 1929. Lawrence describes the storm in powerful words and creates the point that humanity has not and probably cannot master the power of nature. . Lawrence has written the poem in free verse‚ there is an irregular pattern and no rhyming scheme which achieves a chaotic fell just like a storm.
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What’s a tornado you might ask? Well sit back and let me lay it down… A tornado is violently spinning air in rotation that extends at the base of a thunderstorm. Its narrow at the ground bottom and it gets thicker at the top. Wind current is invisible so you can imagine it would be kind of hard to see a tornado unless‚ this tornado forms condensation funnels made up of water droplets or dust or debris. The tornado is the most violent of all atmospheric storms. Tornados are capable of tremendous
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NATURAL DISASTERS A natural disaster is a major adverse event‚ which can cause loss of life or property damage‚ and typically leaves some economic damage. There are many types of natural disasters: avalanches‚ earthquakes‚ volcanic eruptions‚ floods‚ tsunamis‚ blizzards‚ droughts‚ hailstorms‚ tornadoes‚ wildfires. If an adverse event occurs in an area without vulnerable population‚ it will not have such disastrous consequences‚ as if it occurs in area of vulnerable population as in San Francisco
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