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  2. Severe weather - Wikipedia

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    The damage caused by Hurricane Andrew is a good example of the damage caused by a category 5 Tropical cyclone A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain or squalls.

  3. Extreme weather - Wikipedia

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    A tornado is an example of an extreme weather event. This tornado struck Anadarko, Oklahoma during a tornado outbreak in 1999.. Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past.

  4. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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    An example of weather alerts on a national map from the National Weather Service. The NWS divides severe weather alerts into several types of hazardous/hydrologic events: Severe local storms – Short-fused, small-scale hazardous weather or hydrologic events produced by thunderstorms (including large hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and flash ...

  5. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly. If a word can be replaced by one with less potential for misunderstanding, it should be. [1] Some words have specific technical meanings in some contexts and are acceptable in those contexts, e.g. claim in law.

  6. List of the most intense tropical cyclones - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most intense tropical cyclones as measured by minimum atmospheric pressure at sea level. Although maximum sustained winds are often used to measure intensity as they commonly cause notable impacts over large areas, and most popular tropical cyclone scales are organized around sustained wind speeds, variations in the ...

  7. Risk matrix - Wikipedia

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    Risk is the lack of certainty about the outcome of making a particular choice. Statistically, the level of downside risk can be calculated as the product of the probability that harm occurs (e.g., that an accident happens) multiplied by the severity of that harm (i.e., the average amount of harm or more conservatively the maximum credible amount of harm).

  8. Severity of illness - Wikipedia

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    Severity of illness (SOI) is defined as the extent of organ system derangement or physiologic decompensation for a patient. It gives a medical classification into minor, moderate, major, and extreme.

  9. Severity - Wikipedia

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    Severity or Severely may refer to: Severity, a canceled video game "Severely" (song), by South Korean band F.T. Island; See also. All pages ...