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TERRIFYING TORNADOES Horror story on the terrible, horrifying, and destructive storms
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HORRIFYING HURRICANES THIS IS NO DAILY SWIM.
Dear Readers, This wicked magazine on extreme weather will twist your mind in many ways. We are here to inform you about four different kinds of extreme weather. Our group has learned so much background information and about the weird formations of these destructive storms. These storms are also somewhat helpful and necessary act for the environment. Read on and find out just what these storms mean to us. During these long days of research we all have been educated about storms in many ways. We have learned the ways these wicked storms form and also why these destructive storms occur. We also learned the safety procedures to take incase of one of these things occur. Not only did we learn about the storms them selves but also ones that have occurred before and all the destruction that they have caused. This magazine is important for all of our readers to inform them about all the research we have found. We would like to inform our readers to these things due to the fact of one safety and two also just educating you a bit more on these storms. We hope you all learn something while reading our “Wicked Weather” magazine. Thank you for picking up this edition of “Wicked Weather”
Sincerely the team of, Maddie Binder, Dayton Hornickel, Danny Delira, Joey Le’Barron
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Tornado Stages.
Terrifying Tornadoes It was a normal July day in Kanas for me. I was outside letting the rays of the sun tan my skin to a golden brown like normal. I looked down at my phone to see it was already 3:00 and i had yet to eat. Yet because I like the look of being tan id stay out a little longer, pack up, and call it a day. So thats just what i did, stayed out for about fifteen more minutes and then got everything to together and headed back inside the house to get a delicious sandwich which my mother made the best. A half an hour went by and I went to go check my Twitter but I had no idea where my phone went, then i remember I had left it outside. 4]
So I scrambled outside to get it because the way the sky was looking, it was going to pour down rain in a matter of a few seconds. I got my phone in just enough time and hurried back in the house. It was raining, raining hard, the sound of the rain coming down blistered my ear drums. I looked outside just in the curiosity of what was going on, to my sight was the oddest looking green sky and just a few moments ago it wasn’t. Well lets just say if you have lived in Kansas before you definitely know whats coming next. A tornado. In my life i have experienced plenty of them. Page 2
TORNADO VALLEY
Living in a state that was a part of
Tornado- mobile destructive vortex of violent winds having the appearance of a funnel shape cloud.
window to check again you could surely see
Tornado Valley was never really easy. It
the signs of one coming. The color of the sky
seems like a tornado happens every 3
was a pea green, jets sounded like they
seconds, yet that it is a little exaggerated.
were going over the house and I could
But still, we sure do get a lot of twisters
easily see the debris being throw all
that come our way. Having a lot of tornados
around. I hurried and warned everyone in
is a awful thing to live with, if the tornado
the house even though they already knew
is bad enough you can end up loosing a lot. A
one was on its way due to the screaming
tornado can do all sorts of different things
sirens we heard from the fire station. The
like lift your roof right off your house or
whole family casually walked down the stairs
maybe even take the whole home with you if but before we did we all grabbed everything you live in a mobile home. Smaller ones will
that was necessary to take down stairs with
usually just pick up the smaller things like
us like always. Once we all got down stairs
garden things and stuff. Now living around
we all took our normal cover positions and
here not only do you know what the tornado
waited until the twister was past. Theres
is going to you, you pretty much know when
only been one time the family and me have
ones coming your way. If a rain storm get a
been outside for a tornado and thats was
little out of hand like clouds moving rapidly
defiantly an experience i will never forget.
and theres a rotating cloud base.If you hear
We all got away from all trees and
the sounds of loud jets coming and theres
anything automobile and all got down low in
not a single one in the sky and if the sky is
a ditch like you are supposed to. Yet inside
turning a funny green you best be moving
its different.
your self indoors. As I looked out the
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Today, the technology is there to give early and normally ample warning when a powerful tornado approaches. When a tornado strikes, all of us are at risk.
Most tornadoes form from thunderstorms
You must always get away from any windows but do not open the window to
just like the one that came as i was tanning
“release pressure” it is worse that leaving
that day. She explained you need warmer,
the window open and get into the basement
moist air from a place and cool dry air from
if you have one. Reasoning to it all is if you
another. Now when these two air masses
don’t, you could get very well injured.
meet, they create instability in the
Because the speed is usually around 200
atmosphere. A change in wind direction and an
miles per hour but could be much more. I
increase in wind speed with increasing height
never really understood the whole concept of
creates an invisible, horizontal spinning effect
the formation of a tornado. Well that day i
in the lower atmosphere. Rising air within the
found out all my questions that needed to be
updraft tilts the rotating air from being
answered. While we were in the basement
horizontal to vertical. The area of rotation,
clutching on to everything and hoping this
2-6 miles wide, now extends through much of
tornado would not be worse than a F1 my mom
the storm. Most strong and violent tornadoes
explained to all of us why these terrifying storms happen.
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form within this area of strong rotation. Page 4
Twisting Stories. In most places not just one tornado will occur there can be many at a time, or a tornado could even go away and then come back. Like the tornado outbreak that happened to go on for 3 days straight and occurred over 15 states. Over this time there was 289 tornadoes that went though destroying everything. But this wasn’t the deadliest tornado in human history, the one sadly happens to be in Bangladesh and killed over a devastating 1300 people and injured 12,000 people. It covered over 50 miles and destroyed everything in sight.
• A tornado once hit and carried a box of silverware from cedar lake all the way to the court house in crown point which is about 6 miles • A father and mother bought their daughter gifts for her wedding, but a tornado came though and ruined everything and the only two things left were the two gifts perfectly wrapped and saved. • In 1928, a tornado in Kansas plucked the feathers right off some chickens. • In 1931 a tornado in Mississippi lifted an 83 ton train and tossed it 80 feet from the track. • A heavy chicken house, sixteen by sixteen feet in area, was picked up by a tornado and wedged between two trees. The hens were found the next day sitting on their eggs in the chicken house, with no windows broken, as though nothing had happened. •
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Twist your brain with this test!
1.What is the strongest rating a tornado can receive? A.EF-2 B.EF-3 C.EF-5 D.EF-6 E.EF-7
2.TRUE or FALSE: Tornados form in unstable atmosphere conditions? A.True B.False 3.In the event of a tornado, which of the following is the safest place to take shelter? A.2nd Floor Bathroom B.Internal Closet C.Living Room D. Secure Basement E.Balcony 4.TRUE of FALSE: A car is safe from a tornado A.True B.False 5.What should you do if you are caught in the open, and a tornado is present? A.Find a nearby tree B.Lay in an Open field C.Escape to a car D.Lay in a ditch E.None of the Above 6.What should you NOT do if a tornado is near? A.Take shelter B.Find/Locate Supplies C.Open windows to release pressure D.None of the above
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By: Maddie Binder
INDIANA!
I’ve lived in Indiana all of
This causes a lot of
my life, and I have
precipitation, also known
experienced many types
as rain. It lightnings
of weather. Some types
during a thunderstorm
of weather are extreme
and because electric
and wild. Some can be
waves shoot up from the
dark and dangerous,
nitrogen in the ground to
others can be bright and
the clouds. They
bewildering. I’ve been
condense and come back
through almost all types
down as lightning.
of weather. Such as
Indiana has a continental
thunderstorms, lake
climate. So therefore it’s
effect snow, and floods.
hot in the summer and
Sometimes the
cold in the winter
temperature can be
because the Earth is
pretty unexpected too.
tilted on it’s axis and it’s
In Indiana we have a lot of tilting away from the sun. thunderstorms. A
Therefore it doesn’t get
thunderstorm occurs
a direct hit from the sun
when the air gets really
rays. So the opposite of
hot and then it cools
that in the summer. So in
down. Then the
the spring and fall it’s in
thunderstorms also come
between because of the
with other horrible
way the Earth is tilting.
occurrences. Such as
So if you live in Indiana
lightning, rain and wild
you can go swimming in
winds. During a
the summer and build a
thunderstorm there is a
snowman in the winter.
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updraft.
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Intense Indiana Weather Sometimes in Indiana we
Also, we even have
have blizzards, that can
floods. Which doesn’t
occur in Indiana because
occur often because we
we have lake effect snow. Lake effect snow is where
MONTH
TEMP.
don’t have monsoons.
Jan.
27
But sometimes we do.
Feb.
32
March
42
cold winds from the north That happens because we move across
a warmer
INDIANA
sometimes have heavy,
body of water, which
intense rainfall. This
April
52
causes snow. This
happens because of high
May
63
happens in the winter
atmospheric water vapor
when it’s really cold up
rising high into the
June
72
north in Canada and it
atmosphere.
July
76
moves across a slightly
So if in the future, you
August
74
warmer Lake Michigan
want to live Indiana, be
and that causes snow to
prepared, because there
Sept.
66
fall. So then clouds build
might be some weather
October
55
up the cold water and
that will surprise you.
Nov.
43
Dec.
32
then through the water cycle it turns into snow.
By Dayton Hornickel
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Blizzards Bone shivering cold, ice
snow of my pants
cold heavy winds, fog like
and sat on the
visibility. I was surely stuck
couch. I felt a
in a snowstorm. My mother
blistering pain in my
and I rushed to the car in
toes as i removed
hope of quick warmth and
my socks. My
blocking of the wind. The
mother must of
snow piled in thick bunches guessed this because she on top of my mothers car.
was heading towards me
She blasted the warm air
with a big hot tub of water
and put on the windshield
and a cup of hot chocolate.
wipers. We eventually
I put my frozen feet into the
struggled to reach my
tub and it felt as if they
night i faced the harsh realities of blizzards. I was fortunate enough to be to safety, but I would not forget this night.
house. We put our hats and should of sizzled. But this gloves back on and
relaxed me, I got a large
sprinted through the heavy
blanket on and eventually
snow into my satisfactory
recovered back to warmth. I
warm house. I took off my
sat with my mother by the
coat and brushed off the
fire until I fell asleep. That
Blizzards form by cold temperature for snow, hot rising air to make clouds, and very heavy winds
Blizzards occur in Centeral United States, Canada, and Britian.
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By: Danny Delira Sleet, snow, ice, and hale are all common winter precipitations.
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Hello! I am Mike the monsoon! I am a very vicious storm! I live in tropical places, and have summer homes in Northwest Mexico, and South west Untied States. My usual temperatures range from 100-108’F. You can say I’m pretty hot!(; My dew point is 55’F. But people get mad at me sometimes for what I do! My floods will affect business and crops. But some people, such as citizens of Arizona, appreciate what I do because I am a natural benefit to the environment! Well, it was nice meeting you!
MOSNOONS
Monsoons form from continental shifts in wind bringing very heavy precipitation to tropic areas such as India
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By: Danny Delira
On weird dark stormy night Jake house started shaking and he was wondering around the house held on to something for about with nothing to do and decided to an hour and the shaking stop sit down and watch television jake thought it would be fine to the weather broad cast showed come out he peaked out and the there would be ran but the coast was clear he looked out television shut off and weather the window and saw house alert pop up said there is a smashed cars flipped and hurricane heading toward us thought i’m so lucky i’m alive . everyone head to safety “quick” jake ran up stairs took everything that was valuable to him and ran to his basement after about a hour went by he started to think that theres no hurricane but the 14]
HORRIFYING HURRICANES! What is a hurricane?
What causes How do hurricanes? hurricanes form? Theres lot’s of ways Hurricanes are one of Hurricanes mostly that cause the most top deadly form in the pacific hurricanes. The storm out there.A ocean with the intense low pressure hurricane is a violent western pacific being area that form over wind in particular a the most active. warm parts of ocean tropical cyclone in the The perfect season water in the summer caribbean. for hurricanes is May and early fall their water vapor from the mostly because the source of energy is ocean spiraling pacific has high water vapor which is inward toward the winds and lots of evaporated from the center feeding more heavy rain. ocean surface to form showers and There are good hurricane cyclones. thunderstorms and things about warming the upper hurricanes even atmosphere though they sound bad like tropical cyclones help maintain the global heat balance
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