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TORNADO TRACKERS

TORNADO TRACKERS. BY GRAHAM BUNDY. Fujita Scale. The F ujita Scale is a way that meteorologist measure the size of tornadoes. This scale was created by Ted Fujita. Where does your disaster/event typically happen?. My event most currently happens in the U.S . Unfortunately for us.

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TORNADO TRACKERS

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  1. TORNADO TRACKERS BY GRAHAM BUNDY

  2. Fujita Scale • The Fujita Scale is a way that meteorologist measure the size of tornadoes. This scale was created by Ted Fujita.

  3. Where does your disaster/event typically happen? My event most currently happens in the U.S. Unfortunately for us.

  4. How often does your event happen? My event happens over 1,000 times a year. It mainly happens in the U.S. Most in the south east.

  5. What structures/features of the Earth are directly involved with your disaster.

  6. What usually happens when your event occurs? Well on tornados it depends on the size of the tornado it was. If it was a normal size (F2) it would knockdown about 120 buildings, kill about 60-200 people and cost over 450,000 dollars.

  7. What are the most extreme conditions? MEGA TORNADO!!! The most extreme condition that could happen with my event (tornado) would be, first hail pouring down like a never ending bucket of golf balls. Then a tornado flashing in as if it magically appeared, then picking up all the hail and throwing around the hail again that could cause over 1,200 buildings collapsing, over 700 people dead and about 2,000 injured!!!

  8. What type of measurement scale/rating is used to classify your event? This is the Enhanced Fujita Scale this is the way the measure the size of the tornado.

  9. Describe any after effects of your disaster on earth. • The possible thing that could happen after my event are fires, floods, power outages, and trees knocked down. A fire would probably get started by the building (house) smashing down. If there were a couple of houses near the house that on fire would most likely catch on fire and be even worse than just a flood. Then a flood would probably overflow a river bank.

  10. Power outages would be an after effect of a tornado. There are many possible ways power outages could happen and that could happen by the tornado itself knocking it down or a tree falling down and knocking it down. Trees knocking down may not seem like that big of a deal but they could trample over houses and building or it could knock down a power line and then a shock could start a fire and burn multiple houses down.

  11. Key terms related to your disaster • Fujita scale, tornado, high winds, super cell, and mesocyclone

  12. What other or important facts do you have? • A tornado is a rotating funnle cloud that reaches from the base of the supercell thunderstorm cloud to the ground. They form when a mass of warm, humid air meets a mass of cold dry air.

  13. Citations http://4029weather.wordpress.com/2011/01/01/enhanced-fujita-scale/ http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/22/global-warming-more-tornadoes-not-happening-this-year/ http://www.britannica.com/thunderstorms_tornadoes/ocliwea124v4.html http://www.bethlehemfd.com/fire-safety/hurricanetornado/

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