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Tornadoes, cyclones, and other storms with strong winds damage or destroy many buildings. However, with proper design and construction, the damage to buildings by these forces can be greatly reduced. A variety of methods can help a building survive strong winds and storm surge.
Completed Tornado Diagram. Tornado diagrams, also called tornado plots, tornado charts or butterfly charts, are a special type of Bar chart, where the data categories are listed vertically instead of the standard horizontal presentation, and the categories are ordered so that the largest bar appears at the top of the chart, the second largest appears second from the top, and so on.
Date: 1994 and 1995: Location: Tornado Alley: Also known as: Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment 1: Outcome: Documented an entire tornado, which, in conjunction with deployment of the NEXRAD system, helped the National Weather Service to provide severe weather warnings with a thirteen-minute lead time, and reduce false alarms by ten percent.
A waterspout is defined by the National Weather Service as a tornado over water. However, researchers typically distinguish "fair weather" waterspouts from tornadic (i.e. associated with a mesocyclone) waterspouts. Fair weather waterspouts are less severe but far more common, and are similar to dust devils and landspouts.
Thanks to groundbreaking visual effects, palpable chemistry between leads Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt, and the world's enduring fascination with tornadoes, Jan De Bont's 1996 blockbuster still ...
The National Weather Service's arrow showing the EF scale. This includes a description word for each level of the scale. The Enhanced Fujita scale (abbreviated as EF-Scale) is a scale that rates tornado intensity based on the severity of the damage they cause.
The new location will be the water tower at Brookside Park. The new siren will also incorporate a solar option for power. “That is at Brookside Park, not at the corner of Baney and Claremont ...
Not all tornadoes are easily seen. A tornado funnel can be transparent until reaching an area with loose dirt and debris. [2] Also, some tornadoes have been seen against sunlit areas, but rain or nearby low-hanging clouds has obscured other tornadoes. Occasionally, tornadoes have developed so suddenly that little, if any, advance warning was ...