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2. Hurricane Helene's huge size ups a terrifying risk: Tornadoes

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   "The right-front quadrant of the storm was in an abnormally primed environment to produce tornadoes." Since 1995, hurricanes and tropical storms have spawned more than 1,700 tornadoes, Edwards said.

3. Storm surge: Explaining the fury and science behind one of ...

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   "A moving hurricane causes a large pileup, or a building area of water ahead of its path." If large enough, a storm surge could wash away entire structures and permanently alter the shape and size ...

4. Hurricane Rafael tracker: Where is it heading right now? - AOL

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   Hurricane Rafael path tracker. This forecast track shows the most likely path of the center of the storm. It does not illustrate the full width of the storm or its impacts, and the center of the ...

5. Effects of tropical cyclones - Wikipedia

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   Percentages of hurricane deaths in the United States from 1970 to 1999. The effects of tropical cyclones include heavy rain, strong wind, large storm surges near landfall, and tornadoes. The destruction from a tropical cyclone, such as a hurricane or tropical storm, depends mainly on its intensity, its size, and its location. Tropical cyclones ...

6. Tropical cyclone rainfall climatology - Wikipedia

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   He found that a larger proportion of rainfall falls in advance of the center (or eye) than after the center's passage, with the highest percentage falling in the right front quadrant. Father Viñes of Cuba found that some tropical cyclones have their highest rainfall rates in the rear quadrant within a training (non-moving) inflow band. [3]

7. Tornadogenesis - Wikipedia

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   As the updraft intensifies, it creates an area of low pressure at the surface. This pulls the focused mesocyclone down, in the form of a visible condensation funnel. As the funnel descends, the RFD also reaches the ground, creating a gust front that can cause severe damage a good distance from the tornado.

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9. Tropical cyclone track forecasting - Wikipedia

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   By 1922, it was known that the winds at 3 kilometres (9,800 ft) to 4 kilometres (13,000 ft) in height above the sea surface within the storms' right front quadrant were representative of a storm's steering, and that hurricanes tended to follow the outermost closed isobar of the subtropical ridge. [2]