Severe weather

They form in warm waters out in the ocean, said Spencer Adkins, a weather man on Channel 13 WOWK. Hurricanes are a huge collision of heavy rainstorms, and winds. Hurricanes don't happen in the middle of the U.S. like tornadoes do, they clash off the African coastline and on the U.S. Coastline states Source 4. Spencer…

Wow! The winds are getting really powerful here in Florida. It looks like a ginormous tornado, but it's as large as a hurricane. I am afraid to say that we are experiencing a.....Hurrinado! Just alone these two weather storms can create a boat load of damage and result in many lives lost. Who knows what will happen if they both meet together? I sure don't want to stick around to find out, but in the meantime, I'm going to figure out the possibilities of how bad this storm could really be.…

Tornadoes vs. Hurricanes Wow! That’s a big storm. Hurricanes and tornadoes have a lot of similarities and differences. They can also vary in size and cause a lot of damage. The damages, wind speed, similarities, causes, and also watches. These are all sorts of facts about tornadoes and hurricanes. To begin with, there are all sorts of watches for a tornado and a hurricane. The watches for a tornado are 1 or 2 hours ahead of time before it is about to hit. If there’s a tornado there would be a…

Electric Cooperatives: Going Beyond the Wires One day in July, a girl named Alexis and her dad were reading a story before bedtime as the lights start flickering. “Daddy, why are the lights doing that?” she said terrified holding onto her dad’s arm. “Don’t worry sweetheart, that happens a lot because of the electric company. I am calling a new company tomorrow to get it fixed.” He walks out of the room after giving his…

This year we, the community service group, wanted to host our second annual powder puff football game. First we had to find a cause to hold the game in honor of. We figured Cystic Fibrosis was the perfect disease to try to inform our community about in a fun and interesting way. We have a student in our school district with this deadly disease and wanted to help her spread awareness. Our first decision to make was where to host this event. We knew from the previous year that hosting the…

Spiral of death! Have you thought about a tornado thrashing at your house with excessive force and hurling chunks of debris at everything? Damaging, Destroying debris that could hurt or even kill you or your loved ones. When the warning comes be equipped after the warning comes and after the siren screeches through the air. It could be worse than ever expected. Tornados are awful spirals of death and more people should be prepare for when these twisters burst into the community. Tornadoes are…

Many people die from tornadoes every year. Tornadoes cause many problems for people. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the information about tornadoes and how they are formed. How are tornadoes made? There are many different names for tornadoes in different countries. What happens to people when they get caught in a tornado? What was the cost of damage from the worst and most destructive tornado ever. One reason why I chose this topic was because when I was 6 years old, it was 8:00pm…

In the northwest sector of the Beetlejuice quadrant, on a planet called Zephyr, near a sprawling metropolis called Nova, during the afternoon of April 31, 3015, a rare lightning tornado wreaked havoc throughout the country-side. In order to understand the extent of the effects of a lightning tornado one must understand the makeup of such a monstrosity. A lightning tornado is an environmental phenomenon created under extraordinary atmospheric conditions. Zephyr’s global climate has a tendency to…

"A mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds, having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system." That is the definition of a tornado. In this paper, you will read about how tornadoes are formed, and how they can affect cities, towns, or even people. Tornadoes are, and can be, very strong storms. Violent rotating columns of air exceed 100 miles per hour and can reach up to 300 miles per hour. An average of 1,000 tornadoes spin beneath…

The long days and nights riding to Bree started molding into each other so I didn’t have the best idea about how long it has been. I looked up at the stormy night sky dark with clouds filled with rain and thunder that blocked out the light from the stars and the moon. Lightning could be seen in the distance zapping at the ground. I made my horse go faster so we could get to Bree sooner. It was about twenty miles away from where we were. After a loud clap of thunder shook the ground, rain started…