Thunderstorms (TS) are severe weather phenomenon, which develop mainly due to intense convection. These are meso-scale localized atmospheric convective processes associated with heavy rainfall, lightening and thunders, hails and squall lines. The thunderstorms are characterized with stormy winds (60-150 km/hour) and sometimes become more severe and turns into tornadoes. Thunderstorms occur almost everywhere in the world due to atmospheric instability associated with convection and strong moisture convergence. It is one of the most spectacular atmospheric phenomena that affect the lives of the people. It is estimated that at any given instant more than 2000 thunderstorms are taking place around the world (WMO, 1953).
Thunderstorms are very common
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In India and Bangladesh, these thunderstorms reach severity when the relatively cooler and dryer continental air mass meets warm and moist air from ocean (STORM, 2005). Over West Bengal and to its east, where the thunderstorms are found to originate is characterized by divergence at 200 mb level in association of strong jet stream. The region of local thunderstorms is in the right entrance region of the jet-stream’s velocity maximum which is an area associated with upper tropospheric divergence that is conducive to widespread thunderstorm outbreaks. The advection of cool air in the middle troposphere over the warm and moist air in the lower level enhances the probability of thunderstorm formation. Ahasan et al. (2014) in a modeling exercise with WRF model have shown clear convergence in lower troposphere and divergence over the upper troposphere at 200 mb. Further to note that vertical wind shears ranging from 12-15 m/s between 1000-500 mb favor developments of Super Cell thunderstorms that are associated with tornadoes (STORM, 2005 and Ahasan et al.,
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On May 20th, 2013 a EF 5 tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma and surrounding towns, with a path as wide as 1.3 miles wide (2.1 km) and had a wind speed, estimated at its peak, of 210 miles per hour (340 km/h). Killing 24 people, and injuring 377, this was one of the United States worst tornadoes in the past few years, along side the Joplin, Missouri tornado, in 2011. One of Mother Nature’s most dangerous and still very mysterious phenomenons averages about 1,200 reported each year, resulting in 80 deaths and injuring 1500. With very little known about them, especially whether or not they will form is one of the questions that plague meteorologist to this very day. What causes tornadoes, how does the tilt and gravity of the earth affect the winds to produce a tornado, and what will the future hold about our understanding of tornadoes?
In this paper, I will discuss what tornadoes are and how they form, what different forms of tornadoes there are, what tornado watches and warning are and give examples of tornadoes in Oklahoma and what destruction they caused, also while providing information about the Doppler radar.
In literature, symbolism is used to give meaning to certain things throughout a story that are different than their literal sense. Symbolism also gives the writer freedom to add a deeper meaning to their work. The storm that took place in Kate Chopin’s story, The Storm, is used to symbolize getting Alcee and Calixta back together, the passion between the two of them, and to keep Bobinot and Bibi from returning to the gallery to find Alcee and Calixta.
As evening approached, several thunderstorms began to take on the characteristics of a supercell thunderstorm. Supercells, which are intense, broadly rotating thunderstorms, are the most v...
From the opening we see that Chopin intends to use the storm to move the
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Image analyst professionals at the U.S. Weather Bureau also found that all cyclones (hurricanes, nor-easters, tornadoes, etc) are characterized by a very distinct vortex cloud pattern located in the center. Because of these mutual characteristics, large scale cloud and weather systems could be easily recognized and tracked for many days. TIROS I detected a storm off the coast of Madagascar and tracked this storm through its television cameras for five consecutive days! Yet another major discovery was that the weather fronts associated with mid-latitude storms are strikingly clear and easily identifiable on weather-satellite photographs.
An ordinary-single cell is the most common, but multicell and supercells are responsible for the severe thunderstorms. The ordinary single-cell thunderstorms are short lived with three stages: the cumulus, the mature, and the dissipating stages. In the last stage, it eliminates the upward supply of high humidity air needed to maintain a thunderstorm. On the other hand, multicell storms are composed of severe individual single-cell storms that can make storms last for several hours. There is dense, cold air of the downdraft that forms the gust front which forms new cells. Then, groups of these thunderstorms tend to join into larger systems referred to as mesoscale convective
Thunderstorm is convection is developed based on three fundamental atmospheric conditions; warm humid air, a steep vertical temperature gradient where colder air over moist air and an updraft that makes water vapor turns into water droplets which makes the clouds grow even bigger (Keller & DeVechhio, 2010).
A thunderstorm can produce some soothing sounds as it passes overhead. The light rain tapping at one’s window provides a comforting pattern for resting. The sound of thunder sounds like volleys of cannons being fired repeatedly in the distance. One knows the fire is hard at work by the crackling of the flames. One can hear the whistling wind sweeping the corners of your house repeatedly.
-The design models that simulate the storm events to get an idea of what happens during these events (Huber,
A tropical cyclone is a warm-core, low-pressure system producing high winds that spiral counter-clockwise (in the northern hemisphere) and inward, with the highest winds near the center of circulation. The large counter-clockwise and inward flow is characteristic of the nearly symmetric structure of tropical cyclones as they are comprised of rain bands spiraling toward the center. These warm-core storms typically form over the tropical and subtropical oceans and extract their energy from the heat content of the oceans.
A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be more than one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. In the body of my essay, I will tell you about types of tornadoes, where tornadoes come from, where and when tornadoes occur, the damage they inflict, variations of tornadoes, and how to detect tornadoes.
A solar storm refers to space weather involving solar activities like solar flares and coronal mass ejection. Although most solar storms may only have minor effect on the Earth, a particularly strong one like the 1859 Carrington Event is likely to cause damage of spacecraft and satellites, as well as radio and electricity blackout of large regions on the Earth. In the age that people’s lives are greatly dependent on electronic and telecommunication technologies, our modern civilization is under a constant threat posed by a hazardous solar storm. This paper will examine a few past solar storm observations and attempt to analyze the effects of the major components of solar storms on human technologies and people’s lives.