Tornadoes

Tornadoes are very destructive.

Cumulonimbus are a dense and vertically developed cloud that produces thunderstorms. The cloud can bring heavy showers, hail, lightning, high winds and sometimes tornadoes.

Dust Devils may look like tornadoes, but dust devils are not formed by thunderstorms and do not drop from the sky. Dust devils are caused by swirling winds that rise with the warm air found over the ground.

Fujita Scale is the scale that measures the strength of tornadoes based upon wind speed.

The Great Plains region experiences multiple climate and weather hazards, including floods, droughts, severe storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, and winter storms. In much of the Great Plains, too little precipitation falls to replace that needed by humans, plants, and animals. These variable conditions already stress communities and cause billions of dollars in damage. Climate change will add to both stress and costs.

Seventy-five percent of the world's tornadoes occur in the US.

Our town never gets hit by tornadoes.

Algiers never gets hit by tornadoes.

We get tornadoes all the time in our state.

While working for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, he designed and built the second tide prediction machine which was used for over thirty years, wrote numerous theoretical treatises on tides and tidal currents, and published a series of essays in Coast and Geodetic Survey annual reports on such topics as “Meteorological Researches: Cyclones, Tornadoes, and Water-Spouts”.