PARTS OF A HURRICANE
The middle part of a hurricane, which is a small center of calm weather.
What is the eye?
A category of hurricane where winds get up to 130-156 mph. This category causes catastrophic damage to homes. Power outages can be expected to last weeks or months.
What is a category 4 hurricane?
A severe tropical cyclone originating in the Atlantic or Caribbean Sea whose winds are greater than 74 mph.
What is a hurricane?
This is the number of people who died from Hurricane Andrew in 1992 in Homestead, Florida, where neighborhoods were flattened by the strong winds.
What is 65?
Storm surges can reach this height.
What is 30 feet, or the height of a three-story building?
The most devastating part of a hurricane, this surrounds the eye.
What is the eyewall?
A category where the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months, where wind speeds are 157 mph or higher.
What is a category 5 hurricane?
These are the 3 things hurricanes need to form.
What are a vast amount of water, warm water, and the rotation of the earth?
Hurricane Andrew hit Homestead, Florida in 1992 and had winds that reached this speed.
What is 169 miles per hour?
This is where the storm surge is located in relation to a hurricane.
What is in front of it?
Bands of clouds and rain that extend far out from the eye of a hurricane.
What are rain bands?
A category with winds ranging from 96-110 mph. This category may cause short power outages and moderate damage to homes.
What is a category 2 hurricane?
This is the direction that hurricanes usually move as they develop.
What is from east to west?
These are some things that can happen due to strong winds from a hurricane.
What is buildings can be destroyed, objects can fly through the air, power lines can go down, roads can be blocked, trees can fall down, or power outages can last for weeks or months?
This is a wind-driven wall of seawater that floods coastal areas.
What is a storm surge?
This term refers to the water that is pushed ahead of a hurricane.
What is a storm surge?
A hurricane category where winds reach 74- 96 mph and may cause damage to homes and trees.
What is a category 1 hurricane?
Most hurricanes that make landfall in or near the United States hit in these areas.
Where are the Gulf Coast, the Caribbean Sea, and the Atlantic Coast of the United States?
These are dangers from heavy rain.
What is flooding, uprooted trees, unknown objects floating in the water, water contaminated with bacteria, or people and animals could drown?
The three deadliest hurricanes were the result of this dangerous part of a hurricane.
What is the storm surge?
These are used to categorize hurricanes to determine how devastating and damaging they will be.
What are windspeeds?
A category that causes devastating damage to well- built homes. Trees snap or uproot which may block roads. Wind speeds are between 111- 129 mph.
What is a category 3 hurricane?
These are the 3 reasons hurricanes are so dangerous.
What are strong winds, heavy rain, and storm surge?
This is the amount of rain that fell in 4 days during Hurricane Harvey.
What is 60 inches?
This is the deadliest hurricane in United States history, because of the storm surge.
What is the Great Galveston hurricane in 1900?