during 1949-2008 found that losses were caused by various types of convective storms, including thunderstorms, hail, tornadoes, heavy rains, and high winds. Most of the 812 total convective storms (resulting in insured property losses of $1 million or more) and their losses occurred in the ...
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Thunderstorms are known to produce brief tornadoes, but luck had it that no tornado formed and hit the towns that day. Tornadoes are frequent in Texas, as the state is located in Tornado Alley, and tornado season, a period of the year between March and May when most tornadoes happe...
Severe storms are expected yet again across the Plains on Friday from Texas to Iowa. Cities such as San Antonio; Dallas; Oklahoma City; Kansas City, Missouri; and Des Moines, Iowa, could see damaging winds, large hail and brief tornadoes. Brief tornadoes are most likely to occur in th...
The nation’s top emergency response agency has long been a lifeline for cities and states struggling with disaster. When hurricanes strike, earthquakes rattle, and tornadoes carve paths of destruction, the Federal Emergency Management Agency moves in to provide critical resources and aid. ...
About 30% of supercells develop into tornadoes, causing tremendous damages. Here we show that if we build three east-west great walls in the American Midwest, 300m high and 50m wide, one in North Dakota, one passing Oklahoma to east, and the third one in the south Texas and Louisiana,...
The same storm system will bring severe weather across the south by Thursday and Friday. States from Texas to Alabama are expected to experience damaging winds, large hail and some tornadoes. Cities in the path of the storm include Dallas, Alexandria, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; Nashville a...
After athree-year, hurricane-free streakin the U.S., Category 3 Hurricane Alicia made landfall in Galveston, Texas, Aug. 17, 1983. The storm brought with it winds up to 100 mph and gusts up to 127 mph. The storm also set off record-breaking numbers of tornadoes in southeast Texas with...
The storm itself or the tornadoes it produces lead to the creation of these winds. The wind resulting from storm damages the electrical energy transmission infrastructure and disables the devices, destroys the houses and makes them unlivable, damages the land, sea, and air transportation system, ...
Just three years ago, a landfalling Hurricane Alex the night of June 30, 2010 brought flooding rain to Deep South Texas. Alex had the lowest central pressure of any June Atlantic Basin hurricane since 1957. Then, in early July 2008, "Bertha" spun up as a tropical storm near the Cape Ver...