Natural Disasters

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Natural Disasters

• By Patrick L. Abbott

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Chapter 10

• Severe Weather

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Overview

• Weather Principles
• Midlatitude Cyclones
• How a Thunderstorm Works
• Thunderstorms in the Conterminous United States
• Winds
• Tornadoes
• Extreme Heat

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Weather Principles

• Water and Heat
• Atmospheric Heating
• Coriolis Effect
• Global Wind Pattern
• Jet Streams
• Air Masses
• Fronts
• Rotating Air Bodies

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Midlatitude Cyclones

• Thunderstorms
• Tornado
• The Eastern U. S. White Hurricane of 1993

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How a Thunderstorm Works

• Thunder
• Lightning
• Hail
• Microbursts An Airplanes Enemy

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Thunderstorms in the Conterminous United States

• Heavy Rains
• Central Texas
• Hail
• Lightning
• How Lightning Works
• Dont Get Struck

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Winds

• Straight-Line Winds
• Ontario to New York Derecho, 15 July 1995
• Blizzards
• Northeastern United States, 6-8 January 1996
• Ice Storms
• Sleet
• Freezing Rain
• Canadian Ice Storm, 5-9 January 1998

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Tornadoes

• Tri-State Tornado, 18 March 1925
• How a Tornado Works
• Tornadoes in the United States and Canada
• The Super Outbreak, 3-4 April 1974
• Tornadoes and Cities
• Safe Rooms

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Extreme Heat

• Heat Wave
• Heat Wave in Chicago, July 1995