Narrative Essay Tornado

Dark storm clouds stretch across the vast sky. Winds howl north to south, east to west. Thunder and lightning fighting over one another, splitting and pounding the atmosphere.

After prompting several warnings across the area, storm chaser groups reported that a particularly violent supercell had spawned a funnel just southwest of Greensburg at 9:20 p.m. By 9:38 p.m., the storm had grown to a half-mile wide wedge as it approached the town, with several satellite vortices observed rotating around the main vortex. At 9:41 p.m., the National Weather Service station located in Dodge City, Kan. issued an emergency statement for the town of Greensburg, indicating the extreme peril of the situation.

As the light of the sun began to weaken, my thoughts began to disperse. The grey clouds of a storm blew in from the horizon. It began to rain big fat drops that fell so slowly I could count them. It was a cool rain, but the air was still warm. I watched people grabbing their things and jogging off the beach. Even my dad who was devoted to his fishing had begun to pack up his rods and bait.

I told the class to get back to work as I checked the weather. The rainstorm had unexpectedly turned into a colossal thunderhead in only a couple minutes. I had seen many of these storms before so I knew what to do if things go bad. Some of my students

Wrongberight, Virginia is a rural farming community, and its residents depend on accurate weather reports. The locals believe, those profession meteorologists could not predict rain, even if raindrops were falling on their head. On Thursday the local weather guru of Wrongberight, Charlie Jones, age eleven forecast a ten-hour deluge would hit on Friday. It did. In fact it dumps eight addition inches of rain, to the already, saturated farmer’s fields and woodlands from the previous intermittent rainstorm that he also predicted. According to him, that storm on Friday was just a prelude to another storm that will strike Wrongberight, sometime early Saturday night. He also said, that this kind of storm would produce, at least one or two unique

In “Storm Country”, by Paul Crenshaw, an unidentified narrator describes his hometown’s reputation for storms and shares his first tornado experience with his audience. His story shows how powerful and destructive tornados can be and what impact they had on his childhood. Paul Crenshaw’s use of detail and vivid descriptions were effective; I was able to see a clear picture in my mind of what he was describing. He also used flashbacks to further describe his relations with storms and feelings about them.

On August 27, 2005 it was my dad’s birthday and all he wanted for his birthday was to leave for hurricane Katrina but my mother was persistent on staying for the hurricane because she had a nursing service and she couldn’t leave her patient and she thought the hurricane wasn’t going to be so devastating but of course she was wrong. My dad was always paranoid about natural disaster show he watch the news all day. About midnight my dad had awakens my mom and gave her ultimatum we either ride it out or we go that Sunday morning. Of course my mother was sassy and told him off for waking her up in the middle of the night but she came to her senses and decided to leave. Flash-forward eight hours and I am waking up from my sleep. As soon as I awaken

I remember when I was ten years old and my family and I were in Florida for two months for my father’s awesome job as usual. My dad works for the Phillies, so whenever they would go down for Spring Training we would too. My family and I always thought that Florida is as beautiful as the Bahamas. Almost everywhere you went you could smell the terrific ocean. It was a normal typical day of school until it wasn’t. I remember every haunting moment of it.

My father, Edward Wollbrinck, has always been into the news and weather for as long as I could remember. He likes storms. They fascinate him. Or should I just say storms fascinate my parents, brother, and me. I don’t know why we are interested in storms, but we just are. We also are interested in tornados, even though they are dangerous, it's just interesting to know how they form, what the they do, and figure out how the eye of the tornado is like.

On April 27, 2011, “President Obama signs Alabama emergency declaration” (Press). Tornadoes rolled through much of the Southeastern United States from April 25 to 28 in one giant storm called a tornado outbreak. While many states issued states of emergency, Alabama was hit the hardest. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, April 27, 2011 holds the record for the most tornadoes of any day, 200. Combined with an estimated single day death toll of 316, April 2011’s tornado outbreak has changed how scientists study tornadoes.

When the tornado was almost to us, I started to panic even more. My mom calmed me down. Then we went to clean

One beautiful day in california there were tommy and his family and his dog were in the backyard having a normal day but 1 hour later winds were picking up fast they went inside to get some food and when they went in the front yard people were screaming and they were winds up to 70mph and in the distance we saw a tornado!

5 minutes had already passed and we still were looking for essentials. Will anything be still here after the storm hits? The strength of a hurricane can tear houses right out of the ground in a blink of an eye. 10 minutes passed, for encouragement I guess you could say fear was our encouragement. Fear of being picked up and tossed like a football by the hurricane, fear of losing our home, fear of not seeing the next day. Fear was also the enemy, with us rushing we barely had time to check our stuff. Were the batteries old or new? Were there enough blankets? Was the flashlight broken? In all the confusion we almost forgot possibly our most valuable asset, the car

This tragic description not only describes Bob and his wife’s situation, but the situation of the whole town. Although the structure of many houses were soundly stable, the tornado still ripped through and destroyed many of people’s personal

A tornado is coming to town and the wind was blustering. Before it was on track to rain you can favor the rain in the air. The tornado ripped through houses and stores and other equipment that was in its manner and when it was done everything to trees to houses was turn into food for the tornado. In the remoteness you can hear shrieks from ladies and fellas that was frightened of the tornado. The weather was windy and rough outside because of the disaster that was coming and the whole town looked like a disaster.