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...hurricane is “A storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone…a wind of force 12 on the Beaufort scale (equal to or exceeding 64 knots or 74mph). As I read through the National Hurricane Center website by NOAA, our National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration it shares with us what a hurricane is, and how it reaches hurricane status. A hurricane is a type of tropical cyclone, which is generic term for a low pressure system that generally forms in the tropics. The cyclone is accompanied by thunderstorms and, the Northern Hemisphere, a counterclockwise circulation of winds near the earth’s surface. Much like the trim levels of a vehicle, Hurricanes have a similar ranking. Starting off with a system of clouds, thunderstorms, and maximum wind speeds of 38 mph, the system becomes organized and categorized as a Tropical Depression. A step above that brings you into the category of a Tropical Storm where you will find: stronger winds speeds from 39 mph to a max of 73 mph, stronger thunderstorms, and a defined surface with an eye. Finally starting at 74 mph the storm becomes classified as a Category I Hurricane. Once the system reaches its Hurricane status, there are five categories. |Category |Wind Speeds (from xxx mph up to xxx mph) | |Tropical Depression |Maximum sustained winds of 38 mph ...
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...On December 26, 2015, residents of North Texas experienced a terror foreign to the area’s usual weather patterns. “The only things left were the door and front porch,” says Caylee Stokes, SFA freshman, about the remains of a neighbor’s home, “Everything else was gone.” Just a day after Christmas, a series of tornadoes struck suburban areas of Dallas County with maximum wind speeds of 200 mph, leaving the area in shambles. Over 25% of SFA’s student body calls Dallas County and the surrounding area home. This disaster was a shocking end to many of our fellow Lumberjacks’ holiday season. “It doesn’t hit you until you are standing there looking at the damage,” says Stokes. Two suburbs, Garland and Rowlett, located just 20 miles outside of Dallas,...
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...The job I accepted is the position of Sales Representative for Speas Storms Shutters based out of Mobile, AL. The buyer I selected is Angelo’s Steak Pit, located in Panama City Beach, Florida. I selected Angelo’s because of their location in the area where severe storms most often hit. They will be a great prospect in fulfilling our objective of expanding our market share east of the Mississippi River. Value Proposition Speas Storm Shutters offers many solutions to protect your family and property from storms, hurricanes specifically. • Our products would provide protection that would save Angelo’s Steak Pit in the high costs of damage repair due to hurricanes. • The use of our products would prevent them from having to close down, meaning Angelo’s would not lose valuable business traffic. • Installation would be hassle-free and inexpensive. • We have a great selection of products. Our variety is capable of meeting the specific needs of Angelo’s. • The investment of our products would keep Angelo’s prepared before the storm hits. • Deployment of products is convenient and not time consuming. • The customer service we offer will provide Angelo’s with assurance and peace of mind Telephone Call • Speak with Gus Brown, owner of Angelo’s Steak Pit • Set up an appointment to meet in person to introduce our products to Angelo’s • Leading benefit: to introduce our products that could greatly save Angelo’s on repair expenses after a severe storm • Leading benefit:...
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...Throughout history, humans have been amazed and intrigued by the various forces of nature, particularly those associated with weather. This fascination can most readily be attributed to the fact that so many different weather patterns exist throughout the world. This diversity in climates results in a wide range of weather conditions; from relatively calm weather to dangerously violent storms. Despite the great variation in weather patterns among the world’s many climates, tornadoes are one weather phenomenon that have been known to occur in almost every climate on Earth. Because a tornado is one of the world’s most deadly forces of nature, it is important for humans to strive to understand what tornadoes are, how they are formed, their potential dangers, and how to better predict the formation of tornadoes so that effective warnings can be issued. In order to completely understand the dangers of tornadoes, it is important to examine the current explanations for how and why tornadoes form. Tornadoes are most often generated by supercell storms. Supercell storms are particularly large, severe storms that develop in highly unstable environments in which cool, dry air lies above warm, moist air. Supercells typically form in the United States during the Spring as warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico flows north and comes in contact with cooler, dryer layers of air. The Midwestern section of the United States tends to be the location for the majority of the country’s tornadoes...
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...Tornadoes Vermona Pigues Professor Stephen Underwood Fall 2013 PHSC 210-A03 Elements of Earth Science Liberty University November 11, 2013 Introduction The weather is a fascinating subject matter, which has several phenomenon mysteries that humans are exposed to. There are many environmental disasters that happen to occur only in specific geographical areas of the United States. One of these environmental disasters known as tornadoes tends to resonate in certain regions. Tornadoes cause damage, devastation, and sometimes loss of life can occur. The approach to convey is to understand how Tornadoes are formed, and what causes them? What are the elements, and components that make up this phenomenon? What is the process, methods, and/or tools used by scientists to study, and investigate this environmental disaster? The attempt to be made is to give a general overview, and some clarity, with regards to the topic of tornadoes. General Overview The United States has the most tornadoes than anywhere in the world. Tornadoes are very rare and unpredictable. There is an area in the United States that is hit by tornadoes, more than most places due to its weather. This place is known as Tornado Alley, which covers a region from Texas to South Dakota, and Oklahoma. This area has the highest frequency of tornadoes in the world. Tornadoes begin formation through a thunderstorm. This is when the warm air flows up from the Gulf of Mexico...
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...afternoon, and your boss has just learned that the National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch. Thunderstorms are building to the west and are expected to hit your building in less than an hour. He decides to cancel all meetings, make sure shelter areas are unlocked, and make an announcement to inform all the staff. At 2:05 pm, it begins to get very dark outside and there is a rumble of thunder. The designated spotter steps out to have a look. The sky appears as if it’s boiling and has taken on a green tinge. The wind picks up and the trees begin to sway. A cool blast hits him and a cloud of dust blows across the parking lot. "This storm doesn't look good." He reenters the building and hears the NOAA Weather Radio tone-alert, and is told the National Weather Service has just issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for their county. Suddenly, he hears a roar of wind and a crash. The storm has let loose a downburst - a sudden, strong rush of wind. He rushes toward the source of the noise. A branch from a nearby tree shattered a window in a room. A few staff was injured from the flying glass. Two will need stitches. He evacuates the rooms on the windward side and moves the staff into the conference room which has no windows. They will be safer in there. Hail begins to fall and grow larger in size. Large hail can impact at one hundred miles per hour (100 mph) (NSSL, n.d.). Suddenly, the skylights shatter. Your boss decides to play it safe and move everyone into the interior...
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...On August 29th, 2005, the winds whipped outside at a fierce 175 miles per hour, rain pounded on the rooftops, flooding imminent as levees strained and gave way pouring into New Orleans. The Category 5 hurricane terrorizing all cities and states on its war path of destruction; Katrina is what they call her and her storm surge reached 20 feet high. 1,836 was the final death toll that Hurricane Katrina caused and her affects were impacted over approximately 90,000 square miles. 80% of New Orleans was underwater and some places were up to 20 feet under. (11 Facts About Hurricane Katrina) This destruction is unimaginable to most of us but for those that experienced it, it is something they never want to experience again. Along Katrina’s route of destruction, tornados were developed wreaking havoc in other states. In this paper I will discuss, in depth, hurricanes and tornados and the destruction they cause to our nation. The word hurricane was derived from the Spanish word “huracan” this word originated from a Mayan storm god. The word hurricane was used in the West Indies where they described any tropical cyclone. (Hurricane: What is a Hurricane?) The accurate definition of a hurricane is a “tropical cyclone with sustained winds that have reached speeds of 74 mph or higher” the storms are labeled as hurricanes when they gain their strength over days and weeks time. (Hurricane: What is a Hurricane?) Storms developing over the Atlantic Ocean or eastern Pacific Ocean are coined...
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...experienced it? Ever since the dawn of time, we were gifted with its presence. Sadly, we never understood its worth, till our very own actions started questioning its existence. What is it? Nature! The sunset and sunrise, the song of birds, their evening gatherings, the breeze that sways trees and the winds that blow your mind away…it’s all nature and beauty divine. Nature is everywhere and not just in resorts, parks, forests and mountains. It’s even in the cities. How many times a day do we come across places that have gardens, trees or even plants and how many times do we notice them and relish their serenity? Sometimes even our homes have gardens. In the midst of our busy, hectic, stressful lives, we fail to think about anything other than duties and few priorities. We spend all our free time watching TV or playing on the internet. If we spent some of this time tending gardens or walking in the park, we’d find it way more relaxing, if not entertaining, than anything else. Nature is serene, beautiful, lovely, unique and a gift to every one of us. Experiencing it should be a part of our lives. The next time you are bored or stressed, take a break and listen to the birds tweeting, the wind blowing, water lapping on the shore, the crickets cricketing all night long and the trees swaying. See the breathtaking sunrise and sunset-how in minutes a blanket of darkness overcomes light and how the light wins over darkness. See the birds in tens, hundreds and thousands , flying away home, the...
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...are more common in areas of humid yet moist weather so they are very foreign to certain places. But to the places were hurricanes are the norm, the people take them extremely seriously because they kill people and ruin countless amounts of property. Hurricanes can attack and harm people in so many ways they can kill people, leave them homeless, it leaves children orphaned and disable them. On the west coast of the United States and other places hurricanes aren’t taken as seriously as other more common disasters, such as, earthquakes and volcanoes yet the hurricane can be a lot more damaging that both of those. Hurricanes are cyclones that develop over warm oceans and breed winds that blow yup to 74 miles per hour. In the hurricane the mixture of the water and winds can be extremely damaging. The winds are extremely dangerous and usually don’t go faster than about 75 miles per hour but have been documented to go as fast as 85 miles per hour. Due to the fact that hurricanes need water to survive they cannot go too far on land, but that does not stop them from causing billions of dollars in damages. Hurricanes are so dangerous that they were listed number 1 on the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Hazard and Disasters list. Picture this, you laying on top of you car as you are being violently slung down your street, which was once dry and calm and is now wet and foreign, at an extremely rapid pace. You can’t find your family and all you can do is hope that they...
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...Example of a Basic Essay Selling Ice Cream Introductory paragraph For many people, the summer months are a time for relaxed living and freedom from care. But as a softice-cream concessionaire on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, I have never been able to share this attitude. I have, in fact, found that my job of selling ice cream during the summer can be a most trying and exasperating means of making a living. One must contend with government forms, the hired help, and most of all, the weather. Motivator Thesis statement mentioning three areas for discussion. Topic sentence The first big headache is the growing amount of forms and regulations with which the small businessman is swamped. There are census forms on materials consumed for the U.S. Agricultural Census Department, milk forms for the state labor board, sales tax forms, income tax forms, and dozens more. Every day seems to bring a new and more complicated form to contend with. One summer I recorded and paid a young lady of legal age an hour overtime pay, and I was harassed by a state investigator for permitting the employee to work one hour overtime, due to some silly state rule regarding female employees. Support by example Topic sentence Even more irritating than the government controls is the problem of securing efficient, dependable help. There are the incompetent ones who, even though taught how to use the cash register or to mix the ice cream, repeatedly...
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...that had been given to her by a young priest. In the bundle are clothes taken from the body of a man who drowned in the far north. They were sent to Maurya's home, hoping that she would be able to identify the body. Maurya begins to look as if she is going to wake up soon, so the daughters hide the bundle until a time when they are alone. Maurya awakes, and her fear for losing her only remaining son Bartley intensifies her grieving for Michael. Keep in mind, she has already lost five sons and a husband to the sea. The priest claims that that "insatiable tyrant" will not take her sixth. However, Bartley proclaims that he is going to venture over to the mainland that same day, in order to sell a horse at the fair, despite knowing of the high winds and seas. Maurya begs Bartley not to go, yet he insists despite her pleas. In a flustered state of irritation, Maurya bids him gone without her blessing. Upon seeing these events unfold, the sisters tell Maurya, that she should go out and search for Bartley in order to give him the lunch that they he had forgotten to bring, and while at it, give him her blessing. Maurya agrees to go, and once she is gone, the girls open the bundle. They find that they were indeed Michael's clothes, but at least they have the comfort of knowing he got a respectable Christian burial where he washed up in the north. At this point, Maurya returns even more flustered and terrified before. She has seen a vision of Michael riding on the lead horse behind...
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...tests and the results from the numerical simulations, confirming that the criterion is not the limiting requirement for the examined ship design. Proposals for instructions are presented in order to improve accuracy of model test results and facilitate the possibility to derive limiting GM values based on model tests. Keywords: weather criterion, metacentric height, limit curve, roll, damping, irregular wave, sea state 1. INTRODUCTION The IMO Weather Criterion, resolution A.749(18) Chapter 3.2 (today superseded by resolution MSC.267(85) Part A Chapter 2.3), describes the ability of a ship to withstand the combined effects of beam wind and roll motions under a specified weather condition. The basic idea of the criterion is to determine the minimum metacentric height for which a ship still is able to withstand a prescribed sudden wind gust, while rolling under the action of...
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...must be warm in order for a storm to formulate. Whereas, a tornado is another severe storm that the formulation is completely different. Tornadoes are formulated over land. Tornadoes develope, by connection of high and low pressure systems. Therefore, with saying high and low pressure connecting, for example would be, warm air coming from the West and the cold air coming from the East would be connecting. Thus, hurricanes and tornadoes have different ways for formulating. With knowing all too well, hurricanes and tornadoes can create severe weather to occur from either one. Hurricanes and tornadoes have some similarities regarding types of weather they create. Both are violent storms, which create strong, heavy, damaging winds. Both create intense low pressure. Both storms rotate counter clock wise in the northern hemisphere. Both...
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...The basic navigation concepts The dead reckoning computer АНУ-1 is designed to determine continuously the current coordinates of the aircraft in a conventionally chosen rectangular coordinate system, rotated with respect to the meridian at the map angle. Coordinates are usually read by the reading of the pointers in kilometers of traveled path from the point of departure and using the cross-track error from the desired track. АНУ-1 continuously produces the dead reckoning by integrating the components of the ground speed vector on the axis X and Y of a Cartesian coordinate system. To obtain the components of the ground speed vector Wx and Wy of aircraft on the axis X and Y of Cartesian coordinate system, the airspeed V and wind speed U on the axes of the speed triangle are converted to the projection of the velocity Vx, Vy, Ux, Uy on the axis X and Y of Cartesian coordinate system with subsequent determination of Wx and Wy, and integrating them to get the coordinates of the aircraft. Navigational speed triangle and its relationship to the rectangular coordinate system are shown in Fig. 1. [pic] Fig. 1 Speed triangle Navigation equations that show the...
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