Geometry.Net - Science: Tornadoes

Howstuffworks "How Tornadoes Work"
, Shop or Compare Prices. , Search Google. , Forums Share Your Thoughts!Main Science Earth Science How tornadoes Work. by Marshall Brain,
http://www.howstuffworks.com/tornado.htm

Extractions: Tornadoes are one of those amazing, awesome acts of nature that simply leaves you dumbfounded a huge, swirling, 200-mph beast of a storm that appears to have a mind of its own. You have to actually see one with your own eyes to believe it. In certain places, tornadoes appear with amazing regularity. That's why we see them in the news all the time. In this edition of HowStuffWorks , we will take a look at tornadoes to learn what they are, how they form and just how powerful they can be. Next Page HSW Home Table of Contents:
Tornadoes
HOME tornadoes. tornadoes. STORM PREDICTION CENTER. Hurricanes can alsoproduce tornadoes that add to the storm's destructive power.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/HAW/day2/tornadoes.htm

Extractions: Action Box For Homes Monitor NOAA Weather Radio When a tornado watch is issued, be prepared to take action. When a tornado warning is issued, or a tornado is imminent, move to a small interior room away from windows. Consider constructing a tornado safe room in or adjacent to your home. For Mobile and Manufactured Homes Monitor NOAA Weather Radio Have a plan of where to go during a tornado threat, a nearby pre-identified safe structure within walking distance. When a tornado watch is issued, be prepared to take action. When conditions warrant, move to the pre-identified safe structure. If you live in a mobile or manufactured home park, get together with other residents and the park owner / manager to designate safe shelter areas in the park or community. For Offices, Condominiums and Hotels
Welcome To The Tornadoes.com Site -- Presented By WebMagic
The tornadoes.com site, presented by WebMagic, is a comprehensiveresource guide to tornadoes. tornadoes.com Recommended Reading.
http://www2.webmagic.com/tornadoes.com/
Howstuffworks "How Tornadoes Work"
Main Travel Travel Safety How tornadoes Work. In certain places, tornadoes appearwith amazing regularity. That's why we see them in the news all the time.
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/tornado.htm

Extractions: Tornadoes are one of those amazing, awesome acts of nature that simply leaves you dumbfounded a huge, swirling, 200-mph beast of a storm that appears to have a mind of its own. You have to actually see one with your own eyes to believe it. In certain places, tornadoes appear with amazing regularity. That's why we see them in the news all the time. In this edition of HowStuffWorks , we will take a look at tornadoes to learn what they are, how they form and just how powerful they can be. Next Page HSW Home Table of Contents:
Greg's Weather Center
Large collection of links to sites about weather (hurricanes, blizzards, and tornadoes) and a section with storm updates.
http://members.aol.com/hurctrack/HurcTrack.index.html

Extractions: htmlAdWH('7003057', '120', '30'); htmlAdWH('7002077', '234', '60'); Main Create Edit Help Are you looking for weather information you just can't find at any other site? Well, you have come to the right place. Greg's Weather Center is exactly what it is, the weather center of the World Wide Web. There is just a plethora of weather information for all ages to learn from and enjoy. Much of the information goes back about five years, but there are special sections devoted to storms from records early on. From Hurricanes to Blizzards, I cover it all here. This is a website that will provide you the information you are looking for on a particular weather event such as a hurricane, blizzard, or tornado.
Sky Diary KIDSTORM * Facts About Tornadoes, Lightning, Hurricanes, Storm Chasing
Kidstorm is part of Sky Diary and explains tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes and storm chasing to kids.
http://skydiary.com/kids/

Extractions: Kidstorm is a production of Sky Diary , Chris Kridler's site devoted to storm chasing and weather photography. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the material here, but not all sources agree on some aspects of storm science, and in the interest of simplicity, not every detail is included. Thanks to savvy folks for reviewing select Kidstorm pages to help make them better, including Jim Leonard Dave Lewison and Tom Warner Comments are welcome, but before sending storm questions, see if they are answered on the Kidstorm pages or on the other sites linked from each page.
CNN - Tornadoes Rip Through Heart Of Nashville - April 17, 1998
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9804/16/nashville.tornado.4/

Extractions: "Considering the severity of the storm, it could have been a whole lot worse," said Tennessee Gov. Don Sundquist, who declared Nashville a disaster area. "The fact that we didn't have a whole lot of fatalities is a miracle really." Vice President Al Gore arrived in Tennessee late Thursday and will tour Nashville and other areas affected by the tornadoes on Friday. "On behaf of President Clinton, I want to express deep sorrow at the damage done by the horrible tornadoes that touched down in western Tennessee, middle Tennessee, and Waynesboro."
CNN - Arkansas Copes With Aftermath Of Killer Tornadoes - Mar. 2, 1997
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9703/02/weather.wrap/

Extractions: Web posted at: 8:00 p.m. EST LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (CNN) Emergency workers searched for bodies and began assessing damage of "apocalyptic proportions" Sunday in the wake of devastating tornadoes that tore across the South. At least 23 people were killed and more than 250 injured in the storms that swept through Little Rock, Arkadelphia and other towns Saturday. Those tolls were expected to climb, said Dave Maxwell, spokesman for Arkansas Emergency Management. State police said several tornadoes touched down Saturday, destroying or damaging hundreds of homes and buildings along a 250-mile path from south Arkansas to the state's border with Missouri. President Clinton declared nine counties major disaster areas, clearing the way for federal aid. He will be going to his home state on Tuesday to inspect the damage, a White House official said. Federal Emergency Management Agency Director James Lee Witt was also expected to visit. Emergency officials conducted a house-by-house search of Arkadelphia for the dead, injured and at least two people reported missing, while police evacuated part of downtown because of natural gas leaks. Leaks were also reported in College Station.
American Red Cross- Tornado
See also Thunderstorms tornadoes Lightning Nature's Most Violent Storms,indepth information about tornados from the National Weather Service.
http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/keepsafe/readytornado.html

Extractions: Prepare a Home Tornado Plan Pick a place where family members could gather if a tornado is headed your way. It could be your basement or, if there is no basement, a center hallway, bathroom, or closet on the lowest floor. Keep this place uncluttered. If you are in a high-rise building, you may not have enough time to go to the lowest floor. Pick a place in a hallway in the center of the building.
CNN - Fatal Tornadoes Carve Path Through Central Texas - May 27, 1997
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9705/27/tornado.update/

Extractions: Tornado in Texas (2.7M/34 sec. large frame QuickTime movie (1.4M/34 sec. small frame QuickTime movie Dozens of people sought refuge in makeshift shelters in the small town 40 miles north of Austin that was nearly wiped out by a tornado eight years ago. "We've got nothing left except piles of debris," said Richard Elliot, chief deputy sheriff for Williamson County. He said several people were missing. In Austin, officials said one resident drowned in flash flooding. In addition, one person was killed when a tornado destroyed two homes around Lake Travis, city spokesman Carlos Cordova told The Associated Press. Hearses trickled into Jarrell as rescue workers retrieved bodies from the rubble in the fading evening light. At least three of the town's residents were hospitalized in critical condition. Rescue workers tried to find victims and survivors in the wreckage of at least 50 homes and trailers flattened when the tornado roared through about 3:45 p.m. (4:45 EDT/2000 GMT).
American Red Cross- Tornado
tornadoes have been reported in every state, and though they generally occurduring spring and summer, they can happen any time of the year.
http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/keepsafe/tornado.html

Extractions: Tornadoes have been reported in every state, and though they generally occur during spring and summer, they can happen any time of the year. While tornadoes can occur at any time of the day or night, they are most likely to occur between 3:00 and 9:00 p.m. There are no areas immune to tornadoes; they have been reported in mountains and valleys, over deserts and swamps, from the Gulf Coast into Canada, in Hawaii and even Alaska. Regardless of the location or time of year, if conditions are right, a tornado can happen. Over 1,000 tornadoes are reported annually nationwide, and as our tornado detection systems improve, more are being reported each year. However, sometimes tornadoes will develop in areas in which no tornado watch or warning is in effect, so stay alert for changing weather conditions. Back to Top What Are Tornadoes, and What Causes Them?
Disaster Links - Real Time Info On Emergencies
Bringing you links to realtime information on brush fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, National Weather Service Warnings, volcanos, flood threats, food recalls, and earthquakes.
http://www.efwhomesafety.com/onwatch.htm

Extractions: Click the links below to find answers to questions like: Where are the brush fires? Where is it threatening to flood? What are the current National Weather Service warnings in effect right now? Where is the hurricane at now? How big was that earthquake and where was the epicenter? Where is it raining right now? Is the storm moving my way? FEMA Daily National Situation Update New! More Links
CAL-TORNADOES.COM
Roster and schedule for 10U through 18U teams from northern California.Category Sports Softball Girls Teams United States CaliforniaCalifornia tornadoes Fastpitch Softball provides a toplevel competitive fastpitchprogram for girls 8-23 in Northern californiat. tornadoes' Tips.
http://www.cal-tornadoes.com/

Extractions: Scholarship Girls Fastpitch Softball Serving girls 8 - 18 in the Northern California area Welcome to the Home Page of the California Tornadoes Jr. Olympic Girls Fastpitch Softball Organization - a non-profit organization. The California Tornadoes Organization is dedicated to its athletes and their goals of pursuing academic excellence through college sports. Tornadoes' Tips 12's, 14's, 18's Tournament Schedules 14's, 18's Roster Spring Bingo Schedule Directions to Indoor Facility: From 80 Take Air Base Pkwy East towards Travis Air Base. Turn Left on Clay Bank to Western (first left), Take Western to Horizon, Left on Horizon, 1070 Horizon is the second building, suite M is on the backside of the building. Tornadoes Bingo is held every Friday night at the Youth Foundation Bingo Center, Located on North Texas Ave in Fairfield, in the K-Mart Shopping Center.
CNN - Central Florida's 'worst Day Of Tornadoes' Kills At Least 29 - Feb. 23, 19
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9802/23/florida.weather/

Extractions: QuickTime movie "This is the worst day of tornadoes ever to hit central Florida," said Gailee Cardwell, a spokeswoman for Florida Emergency Management. She said that Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles along with officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency would tour the stricken areas Monday afternoon. From Walt Disney World, just southwest of Orlando, to Daytona Beach on the state's Atlantic coast a distance of about 75 miles reports of damage poured into emergency management offices. Tractor-trailer rigs were overturned and scattered along Interstate 95. Docks and piers were torn out of lakes and dumped on home rooftops. Florida's Turnpike was closed by downed power lines and automobile accidents, police said.
Tornadoes Theme Page
This CLN menu page provides links to Science curricular resources and instructionalmaterials (lesson plans) in the specific topic of tornadoes.
http://www.cln.org/themes/tornadoes.html

Extractions: Tornadoes Theme Page Below are the CLN "Theme Pages" which supplement the study of tornadoes. CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. General Tornadoes Resources Here are a number of links to other Internet resources which contain information and/or other links related to tornadoes. Please read our (A) Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm Spotters This glossary contains weather-related terms that may be either heard or used by severe local storm spotters or spotter groups. EarthWatch Weather On Demand A graphic intensive site showing satellite and radar weather pictures for North America. At this page, you can choose detailed, current weather images of Canada. The StormWatch button at the top of the page is for the US only. [The] Fujita Scale "The Fujita Scale (also known as the Fujita-Pearson Scale) is used to rate the intensity of a tornado by examining the damage caused by the tornado after it has passed over a man-made structure." The page also has many links to tornado resources.
CNN - Tornadoes, Windstorms Sock U.S. South Again - May 8, 1998
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9805/08/storms.update/

Extractions: Web posted at: 10:27 p.m. EDT (0227 GMT) EDGEFIELD, South Carolina (CNN) In four Southern states, thousands of people began a task Friday that has become somewhat routine during this year's severe storm season: cleaning up after deadly tornadoes. The storms that raced through Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia on Thursday night and early Friday killed at least one woman and injured at least 20 people, officials said. Map of the storm-damaged region Scores of people were forced from their homes, and thousands were left without power. Some of the worst damage was reported along the Georgia-South Carolina border, where hundreds of buildings were damaged. "We've got trees down, houses down, mobile homes blown through," said John Pettigrew, the mayor in Edgefield, 55 miles southwest of the capital, Columbia. A woman was killed when she was crushed under a mobile home in Edgefield, said Mike Casey, Edgefield County's emergency preparedness director. In northern Georgia, a man died of a heart attack after taking refuge from the storm under an overpass.
CNN - Tornadoes Rip Southern Minnesota; Young Boy Killed - March 30, 1998
CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9803/30/minnesota.tornadoes/

Extractions: Web posted at: 7:37 a.m. EST (1237 GMT) ST. PETER, Minnesota (CNN) Minnesota officials were preparing clean-up operations Monday less than 24 hours after tornadoes leveled homes across the southern part of the state. A six-year-old boy was killed and more than two dozen residents were injured including three critically. Officials said about 200 people were left homeless from the twisters and that they feared others might be trapped beneath rubble. A L S O : Image Gallery: Tornado destruction in St. Peter, Minnesota Hardest hit were the towns of St. Peter in south-central Minnesota and Comfrey in southwestern Minnesota, where tornadoes gutted the towns' centers. Twisters flattened homes, uprooted trees and shattered storefronts "It's devastating," said St. Peter Police Chief Brad Coleman. "The damage is very extensive and not confined to just one area. It took a path through the main part of the city."
Sky Diary KIDSTORM * Facts About Tornadoes
Measuring tornadoes. Though we can look at a tornado and see how big it is, we can'tmeasure its strength by sight. Learn more about tornadoes at these sites
http://skydiary.com/kids/tornadoes.html

Extractions: TOPICS: what causes a tornado? measuring tornadoes tornado safety what if you're in your car? ... tornado links A tornado isn't likely to take you to Munchkinland, as it did in "The Wizard of Oz," but a strong one can destroy buildings and create a damage path a mile wide. Its wind speeds can top 300 miles per hour. Tornadoes occur just about everywhere in the world, from India to Australia, and all over the United States, but the most famous and active breeding ground for tornadoes is Tornado Alley. It extends from Texas up through Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the Dakotas. Warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico clashes with cold air from the north and fuels storms that form there. Tornadoes can form any time of year, but many occur in the stormy spring, when these warm and cold air masses collide. Storms often are triggered where two different kinds of air masses meet, such as dry and moist air masses, or cold and warm air masses. We don't know all the reasons a tornado forms, but scientists have a general idea of the weather ingredients that need to come together. Tornadoes can form out of many kinds of storms, but the type most likely to produce tornadoes is the
FEMA: Preparedness
U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) fact sheets on preparing for natural and technological disasters. Natural disasters discussed include earthquakes, landslides, mudflows, volcanoes, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, floods, and wildland fires.
http://www.fema.gov/rrr/prep.shtm

Extractions: Preparedness Disasters take many forms. They're caused by gale force winds, sudden floods, releases of deadly chemicals, fire, ice, even upheavals of the earth itself. When disaster strikes, the best protection is knowing what to do. To find out more about disasters and steps you can take to prepare , select a disaster or other topic below for further information. To find out detailed information about your community's disaster plans, call your local office of emergency services. Natural Disasters Technological Disasters It is important to consider the plight of animals during disasters. For more information on this subject, visit the Animals and Emergencies section FEMA also produces a number of publications.
Tornadoes - DAN'S WILD WILD WEATHER PAGE
Why do some thunderstorms produce violent tornadoes while most do not? Moretornadoes occur in the United States than any other place in the world.
http://www.wildwildweather.com/twisters.htm

Extractions: Click the Map for a more detailed view. Why do some thunderstorms produce violent tornadoes while most do not? The answer is related to the wind . If the wind changes direction and gets stronger with height, it can cause a column of air to rotate. Think of a rotating column of air about 2 miles high and half a mile wide. Suddenly a thunderstorm updraft pulls this column upward. Now it's 3 miles high and a few hundred yards wide. When this happens the air spins up. Sit in a swivel chair and hold your arms out. Now have someone spin you around. As you spin bring your hands to your lap. Be careful doing this! The scientific term for this spinning up is conservation of angular momentum. It is this process that can take 50 mph winds and turn them into a tornado with 200 mph winds! Everything has to come together just right for a tornado to occur. More tornadoes occur in the United States than any other place in the world. Alabama ranks 4th in the nation for the number of killer tornadoes, and the risk of tornadoes is higher in the Tennessee Valley. Texas and Oklahoma have many more tornadoes than we do, here in the Tennessee Valley, ours tend to be more deadly. The worst tornado disaster occurred on March 21, 1932. Over 300 people were killed in the state during 2 waves of tornadoes that day.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

61-80 of 182 Back | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Next 20