Download or read book When Tornadoes Touch Down written by Therese M. Shea and published by Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, people in “Tornado Alley” were the ones who had to worry most about tornadoes occurring near their homes. However, as climate change occurs, tornadoes have become more common around the United States. Tornado prediction and tracking has gotten increasingly better, too. Readers learn how tornadoes happen, how they are measured, and what to do if a tornado watch or warning is issued. Real-life stories of tornado devastation, such as those that occurred in Joplin, Mississippi, in 2011, emphasize how serious this weather event can be. Full-color photographs and sidebars offer additional perspectives about tornado chasing, destruction, and preparation.
Download or read book Tornadoes written by Marne Ventura and published by Weigl Publishers. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tornado, or twister, is a tube of rotating wind. About 1,000 twisters touch down in the United States each year. Find out more in Tornadoes, one of the titles in the Surviving series. Surviving is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive with video, audio, weblinks, slideshows, activities, hands-on experiments, and much more.
Download or read book Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes written by Kevin Simmons and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost a decade, economists Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic effects and social consequences of the approximately 1,200 tornadoes that touch down across the United States annually. During this time, they have compiled information from sources such as NOAA and the U.S. Census Bureau to examine the casualties caused by tornadoes and to evaluate the National Weather Service (NWS)’s efforts to reduce these casualties. Their unique database has enabled this fascinating and game-changing study for meteorologists, social scientists, emergency managers, and everyone studying severe weather, policy, disaster management, or applied economics.
Download or read book Tornadoes written by Monika Davies and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tornadoes can strike quickly nearly anywhere on Earth, unleashing deadly winds and damaging hail. The United States has more tornadoes each year than any other country. This book teaches young readers about how these swirling storms form. The engaging nonfiction narrative helps readers understand life-saving ways to prepare and stay safe if a tornado warning is issued in their area. With astonishing photographs and remarkable facts that follow Earth science curricula, this book will keep young readers engaged and impressed by Earth's power.
Download or read book Tornadoes written by Cari Meister and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the nature, causes, and dangers of tornadoes, tornadoes of the past, and ways to survive them.
Download or read book Dangerous Tornadoes written by Lola M. Schaefer and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Over 1,000 tornadoes touch down in the US every year. Readers learn the science behind the storm, how climate change impacts it, and how to stay safe during a tornado warning"--
Download or read book Storm Data written by and published by . This book was released on 1995-04 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tornadoes written by Bonnie J. Ceban and published by Enslow Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It begins with a thunderstorm. Then the clouds begin to swirl into a funnel shape. When the funnel touches the ground, one of the greatest forces of nature begins to tear across the countryside-a tornado. Difficult to predict and hard to avoid, as many as one thousand tornadoes strike the United States every year. These storms often devastate everything in their path with wind speeds that can reach over three hundred miles per hour. In Tornadoes, author Bonnie J. Ceban explores the causes of these storms, how tornado victims survived their ordeals, and how scientists use state-of-the-art technology to stay one step ahead of disaster. Book jacket.
Download or read book Effect of the Ionosphere on Space and Terrestrial Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tornadoes Killer Storms written by George Laycock and published by David McKay Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how tornadoes are formed and the damage they can do, and ways of surviving these storms.
Download or read book Significant Tornadoes 1680 1991 written by T. P. Grazulis and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scanning the Skies written by Marlene Bradford and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tornadoes, nature's most violent and unpredictable storms, descend from the clouds nearly one thousand times yearly and have claimed eighteen thousand American lives since 1880. However, the U.S. Weather Bureau--fearing public panic and believing tornadoes were too fleeting for meteorologists to predict--forbade the use of the word "tornado" in forecasts until 1938. Scanning the Skies traces the history of today's tornado warning system, a unique program that integrates federal, state, and local governments, privately controlled broadcast media, and individuals. Bradford examines the ways in which the tornado warning system has grown from meager beginnings into a program that protects millions of Americans each year. Although no tornado forecasting program existed before WWII, the needs of the military prompted the development of a severe weather warning system in tornado prone areas. Bradford traces the post-war creation of the Air Force centralized tornado forecasting program and its civilian counterpart at the Weather Bureau. Improvements in communication, especially the increasing popularity of television, allowed the Bureau to expand its warning system further. This book highlights the modern tornado watch system and explains how advancements during the latter half of the twentieth-century--such as computerized data collection and processing systems, Doppler radar, state-of-the-art television weather centers, and an extensive public education program--have resulted in the drastic reduction of tornado fatalities.
Download or read book The Tornado Scientist written by Mary Kay Carson and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What if tornadoes could be stopped or slowed down? In this addition to the critically-acclaimed Scientist in the Field series, scientist Robin Tanamachi and her team are trying to come up with a way to predict tornadoes with even greater accuracy, and save countless lives across America's heartland."--
Download or read book The Tornado written by T. P. Grazulis and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to tornado formation and lifecycle also covers such topics as forecasting, wind speeds, tornado myths, tornado safety, risks, and records, along with accounts of the deadliest tornadoes in the United States.
Download or read book Tornado written by Christopher Lampton and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terror of tornadoes unfolds with this account of the most devastating natural phenomenon in the world. Includes precautions.
Download or read book What Stands in a Storm written by Kim Cross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enter the eye of the storm in this gripping real-life thriller—A Perfect Storm on land—that chronicles America’s biggest tornado outbreak since the beginning of recorded weather: a horrific three-day superstorm with 358 separate tornadoes touching down in twenty-one states and destroying entire towns. April 27, 2011 was the climax of a three-day superstorm that unleashed terror from Arkansas to New York. Entire communities were flattened, whole neighborhoods erased. Tornadoes left scars across the land so wide they could be seen from space. But from terrible destruction emerged everyday heroes—neighbors and strangers who rescued each other from hell on earth. “Armchair storm chasers will find much to savor in this grippingly detailed, real-time chronicle of nature gone awry” (Kirkus Reviews) set in Alabama, the heart of Dixie Alley where there are more tornado fatalities than anywhere else in the US. With powerful emotion and captivating detail, journalist Kim Cross expertly weaves together science and heartrending human stories. For some, it’s a story of survival; for others it’s the story of their last hours. Cross’s immersive reporting and dramatic storytelling catapult you to the center of the very worst hit areas, where thousands of ordinary people witnessed the sky falling around them. Yet from the disaster rises a redemptive message that’s just as real: in times of trouble, the things that tear our world apart reveal what holds us together.
Download or read book Tornado Watch 211 written by John Grant Fuller and published by New York : Morrow. This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A minute-by-minute account, by a weather forecaster, of a tornado watch along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border, which resulted in tornadoes and the disappearance of 1300 houses with many people dead, hurt, missing, and homeless.
