Essays on Tornado

It’s easy to find similarities between the weather phenomenon, we call a hurricane and the one we call a tornado. Both cause most of their damage through high winds and rain, and the arrival of both can cause evacuations, emergency warnings and general chaos. But there are numerous differences between the two weather systems, from…

Natural disasters eARTHQUAKE, TYPHOON, AND TORNADO Kenneth W. Lingenfelter Instructor Wael Hassian Park University Internet Campus A course paper presented to the School for Arts and Sciences and Distance Learning in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Baccalaureate Natural Disasters Park University April 24, 2013 Earthquakes, typhoons, and tornadoes continue to devastate…

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that extends from a thunderstorm cloud to the earths surface. They are sometimes nicknamed twisters because of their shape and because of what they do. The winds in the tornadoes are usually 100mph or less. In +F4’s they can exceed 250mph. They usually stay on a…

This week marks the two-year anniversary of a string of violent and deadly tornadoes that tore through the southeastern US, specifically Mississippi and Alabama. I live almost smack on the Tennessee/Alabama border and the first tornado siren of the day woke me up at 4:30 in the morning; a weak tornado passed within a few…

A tornado is a violent windstorm usually characterized by a twisting, funne shaped cloud that is caused by a thunderstorm or a hurricane. It is produce when a cool air mass meets a warm air mass and forces the warm air mass t rise over the cool air mass very rapidly. Most of the damage…

When a twister signifiers or base on balls over a H2O surface, it is termed a waterspout. Like twisters, they may presume many forms and frequently occur in series or households. Measurements of their forward velocities are scarce, but estimations vary from a few kilometers an  to every bit high as 64 to 80 kilometers…