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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.
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
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.
Major tornado outbreak of 1992. From Nov. 21-23 of 1992, in the days leading up to Thanksgiving, 94 tornadoes spun out across a wide swath of the U.S. from Texas east to the Carolinas and north to ...
Hurricane Milton's tornadoes in Florida were a leading cause of death and damage from the storm. The U.S. has seen an abnormal number of intense tornadoes linked to hurricanes this year.
The National Weather Service has confirmed six EF-1 tornadoes touched down in Kentucky during Tuesday’s storm. The confirmed tornadoes are in Anderson, Bourbon, Boyd, Jessamine, Jefferson and ...
However, tornadoes are capable of both much shorter and much longer damage paths: one tornado was reported to have a damage path only 7 feet (2.1 m) long, while the record-holding tornado for path length—the Tri-State Tornado, which affected parts of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana on March 18, 1925—was on the ground continuously for 219 ...
The weather service rated the tornado an EF3 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, which begins at 0 and peaks at 5. It made its assessment after surveying just one neighborhood, which was among the ...