Cause And Effect Of The Tri-State Accident

Tri-State Tornado; March 18th, 1925 a major fatality happened. A tornado happens when moist and dry air create a funnel,which turns into a tornado. The Tri-State Tornado happened three miles Northeast of Ellington, Missouri and made its way through Illinois and Indiana. More than 13,000 people were injured and 585-695 people died. This devastation was hard to recover from. In this project we are going to see which out of History Channel and US Tornadoes tells me more about the Tri-State Tornado.

Since the beginning of time there have been countless weather disasters, which include hurricanes, floods and tornadoes. Comparable to other natural disasters, there is a great deal of severe damage to properties, businesses and unfortunately loss of life. There were a total of 422 tornadoes throughout the country in 1953. Texas has endured a multitude of disastrous storms; however on May 11, 1953 there was a particular storm that forever transformed a city called Waco, Texas known as 1953 Waco Tornado.

Based on this, the tornado was absolutely massive. Also, it had been reported that when the tornado “crossed the Mississippi...local witnesses said the river was ‘swept dry’...” (Douglas, Paul). This tornado was really a force to be reckoned with. In the end, the Sauk Rapids tornado lasted only about thirteen minutes, but devastatingly “killed 72 people and injured more than 200 and caused over $400,000 in damages. In 2015 dollars, that would be roughly $10.4 million dollars” (NWS Des Moines). All of this is why the Sauk Rapids tornado became known as the deadliest tornado ever in Minnesota history.

The month of April in 2011 holds the record of being the deadliest tornado series in the South, Midwest, and Northeast parts of the United States. Mississippi and Alabama was effected the most during this occurrence. A total of 320 deaths caused by tornadoes took place, including about 240 in Alabama alone. With four of the tornadoes measured to be EF5, Dr. Greg Forbes- Weather Channel’s current Severe Weather Expert- categorized this as a super outbreak.

An Ef-5 tornado is one that causes “Incredible damage. Strong frame houses leveled off foundations and swept away; automobile-sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 meters (109 yds); trees debarked; incredible phenomena will occur” (NOAA, 2011).

May 3rd, 1999 is day that bore witness to one of the strongest spectacles of weather that mankind has ever seen. The storm is one of the largest, and deadliest, tornados in history. The definition of a tornado is "a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system". A tornado is rated on a Fujita-Pearson scale which takes into account, overall damage reports, ground swirl patterns, as well as eyewitness and media accounts of the

The tornados that occurred during this event ranged on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. The Enhanced Fujita Scale (EF) ranges from EF0-EF5. This scale measures the particular damage to estimate the wind speed, as it is pretty impossible to measure the actual wind speed inside of a tornado. This Midwest tornado outbreak had a variety of tornado intensity. Most of the tornados were EF1-EF3 although a couple very strong EF4 tornados were reported. The first tornado to touch down that day was in Pekin, Illinois; the tornado was measured as an EF2, with a wind speed around 120 mph. thankfully there were no fatalities associated with this particular tornado, although there were at least 10 people injured from this event. In Washington, Illinois soon after the Pekin tornado the first EF4 occurred, this twister was said to have lasted 48 minutes in total and had wind speeds around 190 mph, hundreds of homes were destroyed, as you can imagine with a tornado that was said to be at times one half to one mile wide. Experts believe that this massive EF4 stemmed from the same “parent cell” as the Pekin tornado mentioned above. Unfortunately one life was lost and approximately several were injured. The impressive EF4 tornados did not stop there, it was reported that a second EF4 touched down in New Minden, Illinois. The area of New Minden is a more rural area, although there was

Events are classified based upon their impacts on people and environment, radiological barriers and controls, and defense-in-depth. Level 7, the highest level, is defined as “an event resulting in an environmental release corresponding to a quantity of radioactivity radiologically equivalent to a release to the atmosphere of more than several tens of thousands of Tera Becquerel’s of I-131.” Level 6, the second highest level, is defined as “releases are in the range of thousands to tens of thousands of Tera Becquerels of I-131. Note that, a release of Cs-137 has to be multiplied by a factor of 40 to be regarded radiologically equivalent to I-131.” [2] Figure 1 lists an event examples of the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, the Chernobyl accident

At least 9 tornadoes, accompanied by flash floods and extreme blizzard conditions claimed more than 40 lives, and destroyed thousands of homes and properties in a number of US states from south of the country to the Midwest, knocking off power, closing roadways and putting lives in complete disarray.

This summary will cover the lessons learned and any suggestions necessary concerning the following disaster. On May 22, 2011 a tornado spawned east of the Missouri-Kansas state line from a massive supercell thunderstorm that quickly escalated into an EF-5 monster. This monster tornado tore a half-mile to three-quarter-mile-wide path of total destruction through Joplin, Missouri claiming 161 lives (Smith & Sutter, 2013).

Even though the tornado forecast method has been significantly improved, it did not stop the incredible outbreaks of tornadoes that happened. In May 2011, it was U.S history worst tornado outbreaks in six decades that claimed more than 500 lives and was responsible for $10.8 billion in total damage. Due to an unbalance in the

March 18, 1925. The tornado ripped though Missouri, Illinois, and Indaina. It killed almost 700 people and injured 13,000 people. There was $17 million dollars in property damage.

Tornados are grey like the fifty shades of grey. They come in hard with storms and destroy everything that is in the way. They vary in sizes. The baddest, meanest, and strongest tornado is an F-5 and the smallest, weakest, and that does nothing bad is an F-0. It can be vicious if one is in the way.

     A tornado is a violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes can produce massive destruction with wind speeds of 250 miles per hour or more. The typical tornado moves from southwest to northeast, but they have been known to move in any direction. The average forward speed of a tornado is 30 miles per hour but it may vary from stationary to 70 miles per hour. Although tornadoes occur in many parts of the world, they are found most frequently in the United States east of the Rocky Mountains during the spring and summer months. In an average year, 800 tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in 80 deaths and over 1,500 injuries.

A tornado is defined as a violently rotating column extending from a thunderstorm to the ground. The most violent tornadoes are capable of tremendous destruction with wind speeds of two hundred and fifty miles per hour or more. Damage paths can be more than one mile wide and fifty miles long. In an average year, eight hundred tornadoes are reported nationwide, resulting in eighty deaths and over one thousand five hundred injuries. In the body of my essay, I will tell you about types of tornadoes, where tornadoes come from, where and when tornadoes occur, the damage they inflict, variations of tornadoes, and how to detect tornadoes.