Formation of Hurricanes
1. KidStorm : Facts About Tornadoes, Lightning, Hurricanes, Storm Chasing
This site has plenty of information on a variety of weather patterns including: tornadoes,
hurricanes, and thunderstorms. The site explains what causes each weather phenomena, how
storms' severity is measured, and how to be safe should you come into contact with one of these
weather events. Explanations of the dangerous and fascinating job of storm chasing is also
presented. Information about how storm chasing works and an actual case study is included.
There is also information and...
Topic: Weather, Storms
URL:
http://skydiary.com/kids/
2. How Does a Hurricane Form?
The first ingredient needed to form a hurricane and a tropical cyclones is warm ocean water. This
second ingredient is wind. These two ingredients form giant storms, which can cause devastation
when they hit land. The term hurricane is used for large storms that form over the Atlantic
Ocean or eastern Pacific Ocean. The scientific term for these storms is tropical cyclone. Read
about the four stages of a tropical cyclone. View the fascinating movie of the development of
Hurricane Katrina....
Topic: Cyclones, Hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina, 2005
URL:
http://scijinks.jpl.nasa.gov/hurricane
3. Hurricanes
This National Geographic website shows what warm air and water can do. Provides a video of
how hurricanes form.
Topic: Hurricanes, Aeronautics in meteorology, Meteorology in aeronautics
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/hurricanes/phenomena.html
4. How Hurricanes Work
Hurricanes develop in warm tropical regions in the ocean where the water is around 80 degrees
Fahrenheit. First they begin as a tropical disturbance. As the storm grows stronger it becomes a
tropical storm. As soon as the winds are greater than 74 miles per hour the storm is designated
as a Hurricane. This Web page discusses the large damages that are caused from a hurricane.
The damages include wind damage, flood damage, and the further risks of tornado damage as a
hurricane moves further...
Topic: Hurricane damage
URL:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/hurricane2.htm
Formation of Tornadoes
1. KidStorm : Facts About Tornadoes, Lightning, Hurricanes, Storm Chasing
This site has plenty of information on a variety of weather patterns including: tornadoes,
hurricanes, and thunderstorms. The site explains what causes each weather phenomena, how
storms' severity is measured, and how to be safe should you come into contact with one of these
weather events. Explanations of the dangerous and fascinating job of storm chasing is also
presented. Information about how storm chasing works and an actual case study is included.
Topic: Weather, Storms
URL:
http://skydiary.com/kids/
2. Tornadoes
This National Geographic website explains the phenomena of tornadoes. Provides a video of how
tornadoes form.
Topic: Tornadoes
URL: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/tornadoes/phenomena.html
3. How Tornadoes Work
How stuff works is always an outstanding place to learn, and this page on tornadoes is no
different. It begins with a short description of tornadoes, including a stunning photograph and
follows with four informative pages. The page titled Tornadoes and Your Bathtub, takes a
fabulous look at the rotation of a vortex form as seen in tornadoes and in bathtubs as the water
drains. The third page is on thunderstorms and tornadoes and it has some unbelievable
photographs of supercells, and of...
Topic: Tornadoes
URL: http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/storms/tornado1.htm
4. Tornadoes
No other storm can match the fury of a tornado, with a power that can drive blades of grass into
tree trunks and lift railroad cars from their tracks. Investigate the ingredients and layers of a
tornado, and find out how many tornadoes occur in the United States each year. Discover peak
season for tornadoes and the location of Tornado Alley. Explore the Fujita scale for measuring
the destructive power of a tornado, and understand how the tornado warning system works.
Topic: Tornadoes
URL:
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/tornadoes/
Recent Hurricanes & Tornadoes
Storm Events
URL:
http://www4.ncdc.noaa.gov/cgi-win/wwcgi.dll?wwEvent~Storms
Click continue and then enter your state or whichever area interests you. Then pick the last year. You have to change
EVENT TYPE to hurricane or tornado.
2011 tornado information
URL:
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/2011_tornado_information.html
2011 Tropical Cyclone Advisory Archive
URL:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2011/http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/archive/2011/