Tornadoes-Personal Narrative

There is a severe weather outbreak that can include tornadoes and softball size hail. It’s from roughly southern Texas to Nebraska. It should be quite warm that day, and it may be a bit windy. Later in the day, it will change rapidly and will last until after dark. It is expected to occur after 3PM. Also, many large cities such as Dallas, Oklahoma City, and many more major cities, could be in the raging storms path. It is also expected to be stronger than a typical tornado. They don’t know the storm's path for sure. It could possibly shift around.

Tornadoes are devastating atmospheric events that affect the ecology and the lives of people in their paths. Tornadoes are defined as “a violently rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, either pendant from a cumuliform cloud or underneath a cumuliform cloud, and often (but not always) visible as a funnel cloud” (Glossary of Meterology, 2011). The Tri-state tornado was the most deadly tornado in the United States. It stayed on the ground for a total of 219 miles through areas of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killed a total of 695 people, and an estimated $16.5 million in damages (National Weather Service, 2011). Luckily, the tornado’s path was largely rural farmland with scattered small towns between them. <Add thesis>

We were all scared. My grandpa, dad and I running straight into the track. The only thought there was in my mind was, he isn 't okay. Making sure that he turns over and lays on his back as someone calls 911, I left to go get the cart from the trailer. As I left the track to get it, I start crying, fearing the worst. I run back the track and have my dad help me put the car on the trailer cart and pull it back to the trailer and run back to my uncle. As I got back to my uncle, he was talking some intolerable words. After a few minuets, I heard my name from him.

One day my mom came and found me and my sister and told us we had to go somewhere. We went and found our shoes and started heading out the door. My sister and I started hoping down the front steps just about running into a vehicle parked out front. My mom told me and my sister to get in, both of us were kind of scared but we did it anyways. So me and my sister attempted getting into the big vehicle, well it may not have been that big, but to us it seemed like it was. We drove for what seemed like hours till all of a sudden the car stopped. I opened the door and hoped out onto the cold hard cement. I didn’t know where we were at, I had never seen this place before. The people in the car and my mom told us to go up to the front steps and they will be right behind us. So me and my sister made our way up the steps and to a big front door. We looked and found a doorbell and chose to push it. After just a little while the door opened and this younger couple looked down at us with huge smiles on their faces.

It is vital for the survival of mankind that we respect and understand the severity and danger of natural forces and weather conditions. Although advances have been made in the predictions and warning systems of the National Weather Service, or NWS, we must be vigilant in our efforts to always respect what is coming. It is also imperative that we learn from the mistakes we have made in the past and grow from them. One such piece of literature which can help to do this is "Storm Warnings: The story of the a Killer Tornado", by Nancy Mathis, which depicts an amazingly horrific incident where mankind was not prepared for what was coming. The following is understanding of the events that took place on May 3rd, 1999, which showcased an amazing, and terrible, spectacle of tornadoes in Oklahoma. Furthermore we will delve into what has changed since this to better our understanding of upcoming weather related dangers as well as planning for said forces of nature.

I was flying back from Winnipeg, Manitoba a few weeks ago. Little did I know, I would make an interesting thrill seeker and a good friend with a story. I had an unexpected conversation with a photographer by the name of Matthieu Lacroix. Talking with this talented young man really opened my eyes to some of the undiscovered bravery people have hidden within them.

Not one in the literal sense, but everyone has some kind of tornado in their life, something that comes and shakes everything up. It just so happens that mine came as, what I thought at the time, was an actual tornado. As it turns out, my eleven year old brain just decided to exaggerate the true circumstances.

2011 contained one of the deadliest and costliest tornado seasons the United States has ever seen, leaving 550+ dead. In one year alone, 1,692 tornadoes touched-down, primary in the area known as “Tornadoes Alley” (extending from Texas to Minnesota). April had the highest amount of reported tornadoes for the year, totaling 875.

One lovely day my dad, brother, uncle, my cousin, and I were hanging out at lake watauga and taking ride out on the pontoon boat and tubing. We were talking on our pontoon boat at the dock and then it started to rain. Then I hear a big train coming fast at me. It was so scary because my brother cousin and I were freaking out. We sprinted up to our yurt, and my uncle hid in a shed a my brother and cousin were in the bathroom scared while my dad and I were trying to hatch down the yurt. Then all the rain lifted and there was a wall of rain and all the power went out. It was really frightening my dad tried closing the doors but they wouldn't close and he was thrown back from all the wind. So once he shut the doores he couldn't lock

Bedo! Bedo! Bedo! Have you ever been in a hurricane or tornado. Well I haven't, but I do know somethings about them. There is a lot of information on hurricanes and tornadoes available. First of all tornadoes and hurricanes both have dangerous winds, severe damage that they cause, and they happen in certain location and frequency So lets get out there and learn about hurricanes and tornados.

They say that the time of formation of a tornado and the path it takes is influenced by things as trivial as the flapping of the wings of a butterfly some time before the occurrence of the tornado. When I was sixteen, I saw how a big picture can be formed from a miniature film. It happened like this. I saw the value of a coin in not valuing a coin.

We were balancing along beams on the side of their driveway. We were doing hurkeys and high kicks on the trampoline. Then when I was on the beams I heard loud sirens that was very close to me. An ambulance was going to my house. I was getting really scared and anxious to know what happen and who it was. Then I saw my mom walk out looking just as scared as me. The paramedics got out the bed and pushed it into my house

I ran upstairs crying filled with terror. I come to the top of my steps and turn to see my dad holding my 7 year old sister Alli crying in his arms. It looked like my dad had just seen a ghost, because he was so scared. Considering we were all extremely scared we all slept in our parent’s room. Next thing you know my dad got a text from our neighbors Stacey and Tyler saying our tree was on

It was as if we were caught in the vortex of an F5 tornado that barely touched down and was gone. All I could hear was her cries that she was coming and her pleads for me to join her. We were frantic and it went by so fast that we didn 't even have the time to quiet ourselves once we noticed our cries were out of control. It was over way faster than it took us to get our clothes off and like a couple of twelve-years-olds dry humping until her jeans are soaked through from waist to mid-thigh and his load is spent in a friction induced orgy, we were just as sated as if it took us much longer.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;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.