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This year overall, the U.S. has seen an abnormally high number of strong tornadoes linked to hurricanes. Although tornadoes are common when hurricanes make landfall, most are on the weaker end of ...
Hurricane Iniki, whose top sustained winds of 130 mph left it just short of Category 4 status, slammed Hawaii and especially Kauai in September 1992. The damage it caused was estimated at $2.3 ...
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.
Storyful Viral (YouTube), March 29, 2020, Dramatic Footage Shows Tornado Ripping Through Jonesboro, Arkansas. Tornado Trackers (YouTube), Oct. 8, 2016, Hurricane Matthew - Melbourne & Jacksonville, FL
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.
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.
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 ...
The 2013 Moore tornado was a large and extremely violent EF5 tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, and adjacent areas on the afternoon of May 20, 2013, with peak winds estimated at 210 miles per hour (340 km/h), killing 24 people (plus two indirect fatalities) [2] and injuring 212 others. [3]