Contents Contents Hurricanes and Tornadoes How Does a Hurricane Happen Hitting Land Extreme Hurricane Damage Extreme Hurricane Story One Step Ahead of the Hurricane How Does a Tornado Happen Extreme Tornado Damage Extreme Tornado Story One Step Ahead of the Tornado Intense Futures Timeline Blown Away Index 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32
Hurricanes A hurricane is a storm so vast you can only see it all from space From high above it looks like the frosting on a huge whirling cupcake The white you see is rings of huge powerful thunderclouds that bring torrential rain The whirls are created by powerful winds that blow in a spiral around the storm’s center or eye Hurricane is the name given ing tropical to a spiral in the Atlantic Ocean storm with winds over 74 mph These tropical 110 km h led typhoons cyclones are cal in the North Pacific Ocean in the South and cyclones Pacific and Indian Oceans 6
Tornadoes Tornadoes also known as twisters and whirlwinds are spinning roaring columns of air just a few hundred meters across They come down from giant thunderclouds and rip across the landscape destroying buildings uprooting trees and hurling cars in the air Winds spiral around the outside at ferocious speeds while pressure in the center is so low it can suck objects up like a giant vacuum cleaner 7
