WEATHER STORMS

by Ted Peterson
This web sites will cover the different storms that there are on this earth. That includes Cyclones, Typhoons, Hurricanes, Water Spouts, and Tornados.
Water Spouts and Tornados.
Water Spouts and Tornados are the same types of stroms. Water Spouts are Tornados that travels over water in place of Tornados that travels over land. Water Spouts cause little damage in the US where Tornados are the most destructed storms that the earth can have in the space that they travel.
These two storms are clasfied with a scale of from F0 to F6. The different numbers are as follows;
F0 = 40-72 mile winds. Very little damage.
F1 = 73-112 mile winds. Moderate damage.
F2 = 113-157 mile winds. Considerable damage.
F3 = 158-206 mile winds. Severe damage.
F4 = 207-260 mile winds. Devastating damage
F5 = 261-318 mile winds. Incredible damage.
F6 = over 318 mile winds. You hope that no one is around.
The path that Tornados travel most of time will be less than 200 feet wide but they can cause more distruction than any other storms that there are, any place in the world. Most of the time they will take place in the fall and spring. All states will have them some of the time but about 99% of all tornado in the US will take place in the Midwest and parts of the Eastern states of the US.
Cyclones - Typhoons - Hurricanes
These three storms are the same but they take place in different countries around the world. Cyclones will take place in the Indian Ocean and Australia. Typhoons will take place West of the International Date Line through Asia, Europe and Africa. Hurricanes will take place over North America and South America.
These storms can cause a lot more damage than any other storms because they can cover a path over 300 miles wide and they always carry a large amount of rain. Tornados most of the time has no rain. The maximum wind speed of these 3 storms will be a lot less than Tornados. The scale is listed below.
1 = 74-95 miles a hour.
2 = 96-110 miles a hour.
3 =111-130 miles a hour.
4 = 131-155 miles a hour.
5 = over 155 miles a hour. You do not want to be in one of these.
Japan and the Far East will have a type 4 Typhoon once a year. The US will have one level 4 Hurricanes about once every 5 years. Most Hurricanes that hit the east coast of US will be a type 2 or 3. The reason why Japan will have a bigger one is the storms will have traveled a lot farther before it hits land.
Typhoons, Cyclones, and Hurricanes build up their speed by traveling over warm water over a great distance. When they hit ground or colder water they will die, but dump a lot of water that they have picked up. Typhoons and Hurricanes will be from July to about Oct. Cyclones will take place from Oct to May. This is because they take place south of the equator.
NOTE; Tornados kill from 20 to 130 people each years in the US. Most states have them. There was one in the Portland area (Vancouver, Washington) in the 50s that hit a school full of children. One child was killed and the school was distroyed.. In 1962 Oregon-Washington had a Hurricane on Columbis day (Oct. 12). One Coast Guard Station on the Oregon coast had a wind gauge that broke at 212 miles a hour. One radio station on the coast lost their gauge at 197 miles a hour. At one of the bridges in Downtown Portland, recorded a speed of 157 miles before their gauge broke. On good thing was that NO rain untill the homes were fixed.
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