Essays on Tornado

By dictionary definition, a natural disaster is a natural event such as a flood, earthquake, or hurricane that causes great damage or loss of life. But a natural disaster is much more than that. Natural disasters can strike swiftly, destroying lives by wrecking homes and causing physical injury or death. Nobody can predict the future, but by studying natural disasters we can learn from the past to benefit our future. By studying natural disasters we can learn how to make structures stronger in ...

The paucity of research studies related to the evaluation of short-fuse hazard warnings in the US is rather troubling, especially as urban populations continue to rise in hazard-prone regions (Ashley, 2007). Nevertheless, the majority of evaluative studies have assessed the quality of tornado warning detection, with the use of statistical measures, such as POD/FAR (Brooks, 2004). For instance, as described herein, past studies of tornadoes in the contiguous US have shown phenomenal ...

On March 3, 2019, Lee County, Alabama, southern United States suffered from the severe disasters of the tornado and the tornado disaster had resulted in 23 deaths and dozens missing until March 5 (Alijah, 2019). In the case of this natural disaster, a large number of people have been directly and indirectly affected by tornadoes. First of all, for local residents, tornadoes can bring them a great threat to life and property. Based on the official statistics after the tornado, except for ...

Tornado is a strongly, rotating wind, occurring below the bottom of the convective storm, which at least once touches the earth's surface and is sufficiently strong enough to cause material damage. It is capable of carrying objects up to 5 tons in air. It has the form of a funnel, a choke that runs from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud. The wind speed in tornadoes ranges from 50 to 100 m/s or more, with its size in hundreds of meters in diameter. Tornadoes occur in storms almost all over the ...

The Iowa tornado outbreak occurred during May 22-31, 2008, and it was considered a set of different tornado outbreaks that affected the central plains of the United States. A total of 239 tornadoes were recorded during this time. We will focus on May 25th, 2008, what local residents said was a relatively calm Sunday on a long Memorial Day weekend. At approximately 5:00 p.m, a powerful and very destructive EF5 tornado ripped through 3 different counties in Northern Iowa. A massive and ...

The paucity of research studies related to the evaluation of short-fuse hazard warnings in the US is rather troubling, especially as urban populations continue to rise in hazard prone regions (Ashley, 2007). Nevertheless, the majority of evaluative studies have assessed the quality of tornado warning detection, with the use of statistical measures, such as POD/FAR (Brooks, 2004). For instance, as described herein, past studies of tornadoes in the contiguous US have shown phenomenal ...

When you hear of the term “storm”, what comes to your mind? A lot, right? It could be a blizzard, heavy rain, lightning, hail, wind, and so on. Let us talk about the windstorm for the sake of this post. According to experts, this type of wind is strong enough to cause damages to the environment – it can light up the trees, take off the roof of a building, and can turn a loose item into a dangerous projectile.Usually, windstorms are in the form of rapidly rotating columns of air, but they may ...