PPT-Hackleburg Tornado

StrengthWind Speed EF5210 mph Time 305 PM 540 PM LengthWidth 132 miles 2200 yards FatalitiesInjuries 72 fatalities at least 145 injuries The Hackleburg tornado tore through 6 counties and left a trail of devastation over 100 miles long This tornado was the deadliest of all tornados that touched down that day and left over 1 billion in damage. Tornado Alley. Tornado Alley. Location: Great Plains of Midwest US.. Very flat land makes it easy for tornadoes to develop. Warm air from Gulf of Mexico mixes with cold air from Canada, creating tornadoes. with Large Eddy Simulation. Dan Yao . Zhiyong. . Meng. Peking University. Summer . 2015 Meeting . of . Fuqing’s. Group. Penn State University. 17. th. August 2015, State College, PA. Narrow. damage swath. by Otis Eli, Paul Graham, and Wilson Li. Introduction. . Tornados are very . dangerous storms. They . act as . a big vacuum. . Tornado season in Canada . is from April . to September. Did you know that in Canada 100 tornados are reported each . 12 January 2016. Data. Tornado and hail data are available from the SPC.. Data period: 1950–2014 for tornado; 1955–2014 for hail. Location (. lat. , . lon. ) and date. Gridding of data (1x1 resolution); MAMJ seasonal total. 11/16/15. Winds can exceed 300 mph!!!. Around 1,000 occur on average each year in the U.S.. Kill 80, injure 1,500 people each year on average. Can have a path up to a mile wide!!!. Can occur any time of the year, but . Do Now: Do you think a tornado has ever hit Long . I. sland or New York City and caused serve damage?. Homework: Article Due Friday. Part one: Take a look at the pictures and answer the following questions.. INFORMATIONS. A . tornado .  is a violently rotating column of air that spins while in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as . By Mike . Peccatiello. There once was a man who was short, medium height, has long hair and a beard…. …and lived somewhere in Oklahoma.. He was a god who had lived on earth in the disguise as a normal man. . Science. Thunderstorms & Lightning. Conditions That Occur During Thunderstorms. Thunder, lighting, high winds, heavy rain, hail. Electric Sparks by Shuffling . Lightening is like electric sparks that you can make by shuffling across a carpet before touching a metal object. Both lightning and small electric sparks are discharges of built up static electricity. . Tornadoes Form in Severe Thunderstorms. A . tornado . is a violently rotating column of air stretching from a . Cumulonimbus. cloud . to the ground. . A . tornado can . become . visible when . water droplets . TRUE ACCOUNT. Building Background. A tornado is a funnel cloud that extends down to earth.. The winds of a tornado are the most violent wind on earth.. The winds can rotate at more than 200 miles per hour.. AF3 - describe . the distribution of . tornadoes. AF4 - .  . explain the formation of a tornado. https://. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKBtAEwreEo. List the impacts of a tornado:. STARTER: Tornadoes are so good they have. Written by Jeremy S. Grams, R. L. Thompson, D. V. Snively, J. A. Prentice, G.M. Hodges and L. J. Reames. Presented by Danielle Thorne and Matt Muscato. This paper had two main goals:. To provide a national, several-year-long climatology of convective mode for significant tornado events. Tornadic. Thunderstorm. Conditions. warm sector. southerly. low-level jet. (. mT. ). westerlies. aloft. (. cP. ). trough. jet stream. Tornadic. Thunderstorm Vertical Profile. (. mT. ). (. cP. ). “Convective Instability”.