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 A tornado is: “A mobile destructive
vortex of violently rotating winds having the
appearance of a funnel shaped cloud.”
Tornadoes dissipate and die away when the
temperature difference disappears or when
the moisture in the air dries up
 Super cell storm occurs
 Warm and cold air collided creating an unstable
atmosphere
 Wind direction changes
 Wind speed increases
 Horizontal funnel of air makes the cloud vertical
 Tornadoes can have wind speeds of 300 mph,
and they can destroy anywhere from 1-50
miles of area.
 A hurricane is: A tropical cyclone with winds
above 74 mph, wind speed below that, the storm is
now called a tropical storm. The wind and rain
cause for excess amounts of flooding and damage.
Hurricanes dissipate and die away when the storm passes
over cold water or travels on land, this is because there is
nothing to feed the storm.
 Warm water(above80) evaporates off the ocean and
creates a cloud of moist air.
 More moisture rises with hot air replacing it eventually
creating a rain cloud with precipitation
 Warm air starts flowing counterclockwise with rapidly
increasing speed
 The spinning cyclone is pushed across the ocean and
gets bigger and stronger from increasing wind and
added moisture from the ocean
When a storm
officially becomes
a tropical cyclone
/hurricane, the
whole storm is
about fifty
thousand feet high
and one hundred
twenty miles wide
 The Tri-State Tornado killed 695
people and also injured 2,027 people.
This is the deadliest tornado recorded
in history. The tornado traveled more
than 300 miles and swept through
Missouri, Indiana, and Illinois.
 Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast of
the United States. Wind speeds of 100140 miles per hour and with the storm
around 400 miles wide. “Hundreds of
thousands of people in Mississippi,
Louisiana, and Alabama were displaced
from their homes”
Oregon?
OR
Florida?
Job 26:14
 Behold, these are but the outskirts of his
ways, and how small a whisper do we
hear of him! But the thunder of his
power who can understand?”