Hurricanes

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Storms
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Produced by

• Andre Victor Weich
• Amy Alvarez
• Vicente Antonio Barrientos
• Kristen Ann Solen

Whispering Pines Elementary
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How a Hurricane Forms

• Hurricanes form in the tropics where the water
  and air are warm and moist. There are many
  factors which need to be just right in order for
  a hurricane to form. Scientists aren't sure why
  all these factors are needed but know that they
  are important. A study found that out of 608
  possible storms only 50 developed into
• Tropical storms.

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How a Tornado Forms

• A tornado begins in a severe thunder storms
  called a super cell. A supercell can last longer
  than a regular thunderstorm. The same property
  that keeps the storm going also produces most
  tornadoes. The wind coming into the storm starts
  to swirl and forms a funnel. The air in the
  funnel spins faster and faster and creates a very
  low pressure area which sucks more air (and
  possibly objects) into it.

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Where Are Tornadoes Located
Tornadoes are located all over the world!  The
winds can go up to 300 miles per hour! The United
States has the most tornadoes in the world, about
800 per day.  In the United States, tornadoes
occur in all 50 states!  Every state has just
about 1 to 10 tornadoes a year.  A tornado is a
highly concentrated vortex of winds that occur in
thunderstorms. Tornadoes cause billions of
dollars in damage and kill about 50 people each
year! 
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Keeping Track Of A Tornado

• Chasing storms was first done by scientists to
  study the thunderstorm environment. Little about
  the dynamics and physics of thunderstorms, as
  well as lightning, is well understood yet, so in
  the interest of research storm chasing is
  necessary to keep track of and investigate a
  storm and watch it go through its lifecycle

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The Lives Lightning Takes
Lightning kills more people each year than
tornadoes and hurricanes, making it the second
most frequent weather-related killer in the
United States.
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How Do Thunderstorms Form ?
Thunderstorms are formed by the uplifting of warm
and humid air. There are many factors that lead
to the uplifting of air, for example, solar
heating in the vicinity of low pressure troughs
when two different air streams meet or when air
is forced uphill.
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Thunderstorm Damage
The white puffy clouds that have been growing all
day are replaced by a greenish sky. A distant
rumble is heard...then another. It starts to
rain. A flash of light streaks the sky, followed
by a huge BOOM. Welcome to a thunderstorm.
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Wilma destroys homes

• Wilma has destroyed a lot of homes. Roof tops
  have been lifted from hurricane Wilma. There were
  a lot of floods .

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Striking Lightning facts

• Lightning is essentially a gigantic electrical
  spark that results from billions of volts of
  natural static electricity. Lightning is usually
  associated with thunderstorms and rain.

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Natural Disasters That We Used

• Tornadoes
• Hurricanes
• Thunder Storms
• Lightning

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How To Prepare

• A natural disaster can happen at any time. Some
  disasters give warning like a storm preceding a
  flood.  Others, like earthquakes give no
  warning.  Once a disaster happens, the time to
  prepare is gone and all you can do is cope.  Take
  the next few minutes to examine what you can do
  to prepare.  Anything you do today to will be
  like making a deposit in your survivability
  savings account for withdrawal in tough times.

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Materials you need

• A First-aid kit
• Bottled water
• Canned goods
• Shutters
• Flash lights
• Batteries
• Battery powered radio

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Hurricane Andrew

• Hurricane Andrew was a small but powerful storm
  that caused massive destruction along a path
  through southern Florida and south-central
  Louisiana in late August 1992 (fig. 57). Rainfall
  associated with Andrew was light for a hurricane
  because of the small size and rapid forward
  movement of the storm. However, rainfall totals
  of more than 7 inches were recorded for the storm
  period in southeastern Florida and Louisiana a
  high of 11.9 inches was recorded in Hammond, La.
  (Rappaport, 1992). Maximum sustained windspeeds
  of 141 mph (miles per hour), with gusts of 169
  mph, were recorded on August 24, just before
  landfall in Florida (Rappaport, 1992). A storm
  surge of about 17 feet above sea level was
  recorded at Biscayne Bay, Fla. (fig. 58) and
  about 9 feet near Terrebonne Bay in south-central
  Louisiana (fig. 59).

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The Damage Hurricane Andrew Caused

• More than 250,000 people were left homeless
  82,000 businesses were destroyed or damaged
  about 100,000 residents of south Dade County
  permanently left the area in Andrew's wake.
  Andrew also had a severe impact on the
  environment -- it damaged 33 percent of the coral
  reefs at Biscayne National Park, and 90 percent
  of South Dade's native pinelands, mangroves and
  tropical hardwood hammocks. It also created 30
  years worth of debris.

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Hurricane damage

• Only three category-5 storms have hit the United
  States since record-keeping beganthe 1935 Labor
  Day hurricane, which devastated the Florida Keys,
  killing 600 Hurricane Camille in 1969, which
  ravaged the Mississippi coast, killing 256 and
  Andrew in 1992, which leveled much of Homestead,
  Fla. Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was a category-5
  storm at peak intensity over the central
  Caribbean, Mitch in 1998 was a category-5 storm
  at its peak over the W Caribbean, and Gilbert in
  1988 was a category-5 storm at its peak. Gilbert
  was the strongest Atlantic tropical cyclone of
  record until Wilma in 2005, which was at its peak
  while category-5 storm over the W Caribbean. The
  1970 Bay of Bengal tropical cyclone killed about
  300,000 persons, mainly by drowning. The
  deadliest U.S. hurricane was the 1900 Galveston
  storm, which killed 8,00012,000 people and
  destroyed the city.

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Tornado Damage

• FEMA has found that enhancing construction
  minimizes property damage to homes in areas prone
  to hurricane force winds, and those same
  techniques can be just as effective in guarding
  against damage from moderate to severe tornadoes.
  Also, proper construction techniques and
  materials based into existing construction to
  reduce the damage on the most current model
  building codes can be used in both new
  construction and from low to moderate intensity
  tornadoes

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The Lives A Hurricane Takes

• Forecasters said Dennis was following a
  northwesterly track through the Gulf of Mexico
  where 116 oil platforms and rigs have been
  evacuated. It is expected to make landfall
  somewhere between western Florida and Louisiana
  late Sunday.Before Dennis' arrival, Cuban
  authorities had rushed more than 700,000 people
  into shelters overnight, including at least 2,500
  foreign tourists

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How Lightning Forms

• Lightning is an electric current. Within a
  thundercloud way up in the sky, many small bits
  of ice (frozen raindrops) bump into each other as
  they move around in the air. All of those
  collisions create an electric charge. After a
  while, the whole cloud fills up with electrical
  charges. The positive charges or protons form at
  the top of the cloud and the negative charges or
  electrons form at the bottom of the cloud. Since
  opposites attract, that causes a positive charge
  to build up on the ground beneath the cloud. The
  grounds electrical charge concentrates around
  anything that sticks up, such as mountains,
  people, or single trees. The charge coming up
  from these points eventually connects with a
  charge reaching down from the clouds and - zap -
  lightning strikes!

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The Damage Lightning Causes

• The odds of being struck by lightning are
  approximately one in 600,000.  The odds of
  winning the lottery are about one in five
  million.  However, lightning causes as many as
  100 deaths and 300 injuries in the United States
  each year.  A problem with the statistics on
  lightning is that the numbers we receive are only
  those seriously injured or killed by lightning. 
  Seventy-five percent of those struck by lightning
  survive.  They may suffer from heart damage,
  inflated lungs, brain damage, loss of
  consciousness, amnesia, paralysis, and burns. 
  Not all cases of lightning strikes are
  disastrous, either.  Some blind and deaf
  individuals struck by lightning have reported
  their senses being restored after their
  encounters.  By following all safety precautions,
  one can reduce the probability of being struck by
  lightning and the number of lightning casualties
  can be reduced.  One must take the responsibility
  for his or her safety and take appropriate action
  when threatened by lightning.

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Destroyed Houses From Lightning Storms

• Fire officials believe a lightning strike around
  1030 p.m. Wednesday, June 4, sparked a fire that
  completely gutted a Payne Road home. The house
  was unoccupied at the time.
• Block Island volunteer firefighters battled the
  fire for over three hours at the cedar-shingled
  summer home of John Cassidy, amid heavy rain,
  crackling thunder and a lightning storm.

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Hurricane Katrina Survivors

• The American Red Cross is where people mobilize
  to help their neighborsacross the street, across
  the country and across the worldin emergencies.
  The American Red Cross, a humanitarian
  organization led by volunteers, guided by its
  Congressional Charter and the Fundamental
  Principles of the International Red Cross
  Movement, provides relief to victims of disasters
  and help people prevent, prepare for, and respond
  to emergencies. You can help ensure that the Red
  Cross can continue to provide these lifesaving
  services and has the resources, talent and
  ability to continue to deliver them by making a
  donation to support all of its cores services
  today.

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How tornadoes damage

• Mobile homes demolished trees uprooted strong
  built homes unroofed F3158-206 mph Severe damage
  Trains overturned cars lifted off the ground
  strong built homes have outside walls blown
  awayF4207-260 mph Devastating damage Houses
  leveled leaving piles of debris cars thrown 300
  yards or more in the air F5261-318 mph Incredible
  damage Strongly built homes completely blown
  away automobile-sized missiles generated

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Tornadoes taking lives

• EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Dan McDonald, a firefighter,
  raised his ax and plunged it into the carcass of
  a mobile home, looking for life but
  half-expecting to find more death. It was a dozen
  hours after a rare November tornado hop scotched
  across southwestern Indiana, snapping trees,
  obliterating trailers and killing 23 people.

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About Lightning

• The early Greeks thought that the king of the
  gods ,Zeus , hurled thunderbolts from stormy
  skies .Lightning can go speeds up to 60,000 miles
  per second 6,000 times as fast as a spaces About
  Lightning hip. Also a flash of lightning is
  brighter than 10,000,100 watt light bulbs. About
  100 lightning bolts hit the Empire State Building
  each year and every second of the day 100 more
  lightning bolts hit the earth . Lightning can
  also be different colors like purple, red, green,
  pink, blue, but the most popular color is white.
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Different Types Of Lightning

• Heat lightning comes when it is hot outside.
  Sheet lightning looks like flat waves. Ribbon
  lightning looks like streamers floating in the
  sky the sky. Silent lightning is so far away that
  you can hear it. Finally, ball lightning seems to
  be a bright round spark that float in the air.

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A New Kind Of Lightning

• In 1995,scientists discovered a new kind of
  lightning and named it elves. Elves is a short
  bright flash of lightning which blaze forth high
  above the cloud at the edge of space. Elves last
  for less than a thousandth of a second. Know one
  is absolutely sure what they look like but in
  therein they are green.

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Thanks for watching our slide show

• We really worked hard on this project and the
  best part is that we had FUN!!!!!

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We would like to thankMr. Coto

• Mr.Coto chose us to do this awesome project (even
  though we had to miss class). We had so much fun
  working on the project. We would like to thank
  Mr. Coto for giving us this opportunity.

Thanks Mr. Coto!