Warning Severe Storm Alert!!! Table of Contents Click the lightening bolt to find out about the different types of severe weather that we will be learning.

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Warning Severe Storm Alert!!!

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Table of Contents Click the lightening bolt to find out about the different types of severe weather that we will be learning about. Click the cloud to find out what causes severe weather storms. Click the sun to find out what you should do in a severe storm. Click here to play a matching game about severe weather

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Severe Storms Return to table of contents

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Severe storms Debris Dirt Wind Click on the pictures to find out what tornadoes are made of! Return to table of contents

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1,000 Tornadoes are storms that are shaped like a funnel. They can get up to speeds of about 400 miles per hour! Tornadoes are a lot like hurricanes, except they are smaller. When tornadoes are moving about the jump from place to place instead of staying on the ground. Click on the picture to find out approximately how many tornadoes occur in a year. Return to table of contents

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1,000 Tornadoes are storms that are shaped like a funnel. They can get up to speeds of about 400 miles per hour! Tornadoes are a lot like hurricanes, except they are smaller. When tornadoes are moving about the jump from place to place instead of staying on the ground. Click on the picture to find out approximately how many tornadoes occur in a year. Return to table of contents

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Wind Cold Snow What are Blizzards Made of? Return to table of contents Click the pictures to find out!

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200 hundred ice crystals. The ice crystals are formed by dirt. Blizzards Blizzards are formed when there is a lot of snow over a period of time. Blizzards usually include wind moving at high speeds. Blizzards also occur when it is really cold outside. Snowflakes are made up of ice crystals. Can you guess how many ice crystals they are made of? Click the picture to find the correct answer. Return to table of contents

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Did you know that hurricanes only occur in warm water areas Warm Water Heavy Rain Listen here! Can you guess what this sound is? Return to table of contents

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Did you know that hurricanes only occur in warm water areas Warm Water Heavy Rain Did you guess wind for our mystery sound? If so you were correct! Return to table of contents

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More Please!!! Land Locked? You will not be seeing any hurricanes. Hurricanes occur in costal areas where the water is warm. Hurricanes are fast moving water storms. Hurricanes are massive, and can cause devastating damage. The damage mostly comes from the heavy rainfall and fast-moving winds Return to table of contents

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Rain Hail Lightening and Thunder Return to table of contents

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How far away are storms? You can tell by counting the seconds between lightening and thunder. Then divide the number of seconds by five, that answer is the number of miles you are from the storm. Scientists guess that there are about 1,800 thunderstorms across the earth each day! Return to table of contents Thunderstorms generally occur during the summer months, but they can occur year round. Thunderstorms are also known as electric storms. Thunderstorms produce a loud boom called thunder. Thunderstorms even though the are common can have damaging affects. Another damaging effect is hail, although hail does not occur during every thunderstorm.

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Heavy Rainfall Rivers Return to table of contents Click the pictures to find out what makes a flood. You might surprised.

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Make a car float away Floods are the top killer of any of the severe weather in the US Return to table of contents What can 2 feet of water do? There are two types of floods: Floods and Flash Floods.

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Tornados form when warm air and cool air meet. Tornadoes are generally formed in thunderstorms. They occur when there is a change in the wind pattern. Tornados are formed from a funnel cloud. Return to table of contents AND

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Cold Front Winter storms are formed from a mix of dry air, and moist air. When these two conditions meet in freezing conditions they form snow. Snow is freezing water. Click here to find out what this is!

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Cold Front Winter storms are formed from a mix of dry air, and moist air. When these two conditions meet in freezing conditions they form snow. Snow is freezing water. Click here to find out what this is!

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Hurricanes are formed when the ocean water is hot. Also in order for a hurricane to form there has to be a lot of wind moving in the same direction. Return to table of contents

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Uplift Return to table of contents

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SnowRain Floods are formed when there is snow melt or rain and over flows a river. Flash floods occur when there is a lot of rain in a small amount of time. Click the picture to find out what these are! Return to table of contents

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SnowRain Floods are formed when there is snow melt or rain and over flows a river. Flash floods occur when there is a lot of rain in a small amount of time. Click the picture to find out what these are! Return to table of contents

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-Tune in for important news updates -Know where to go -Keep plenty of food an water -In the case of an emergency call 911 Return to table of contents

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Return to table of contents For the following slides click the correct picture to find to answer.