MEA 130 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Thunderstorm, The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Centennial Campus Of North Carolina State University
18 Jan 2020
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Section 6 tornado destruction and tornado forecasting. Tornado destruction: tornado intensity, enhanced fujita intensity scale (f0 - f5) table 10. 3, intensity scale developed in the 1960"s, updated 2007, based on observed damage (flaw) Scale description weak tornadoes strong tornadoes violent tornadoes. <2: 70% of tornado deaths are associated with the rare f4/f5s (fig. 10. 28: noted tornado outbreaks, 1925: tri-state tornado (fig. 10. 25: 1974: super outbreak, 2011: worst tornado year in us history (fig. 10. 27: noted nc tornadoes, 1984 - over 40 fatalities, 800 injuries in eastern nc, 1988 - 4 fatalities in nc, 160 injuries in raleigh, 2011 - over 20 fatalities, 30 tornadoes, average 10-20 per year. Tornado forecasting: tornado watches and warnings, the storm prediction center in oklahoma issues: tornado. 10. 29: doppler radar, we talked about radar earlier in ch. 10. 32) can actually detect movement of the raindrops within a thunderstorm (figs.
