Take Cover
An intense local storm that brings severe weather.
What is a Thunderstorm
A tropical low-pressure system with winds blowing at speeds of 119km/h.
What is a hurricane?
This is a destructive, rotating column of air that has very high wind speeds and that is sometimes visible as a funnel-shaped cloud.
What is a tornado
Hail, lightning, high winds, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods.
What are examples of Severe Weather?
Drinking water at least 10 times a day.
Heat exhaustion and heat strokes can best be prevented by what?
Weather that can cause property damage and sometimes death.
What is severe weather?
A storm that forms in an area of low pressure
What is Thunderstorms?
Storm Cloud
What may form a thin funnel shape that has a very low pressure center?
One of the most dangerous parts of a thunderstorm.
What is Lightning?
Heat Exhaustion
What is a condition in which the body has been exposed to high temperatures for an extended period of time?
Thunderstorms get their energy from _____.
What is humid air?
A hurricane losses this when it travels over land or cooler water
What is a source of energy?
The Midwest
Where do most tornadoes happen at?
Flooding
Most destruction from hurricanes are due to what?
Heat Stroke
What is a condition in which the body loses its ability to cool by sweating because the victim has become dehydrated?
An electric discharge that happens when a positively charged area and a negatively charged area meet.
What is lightning?
This can lift cars, uproot trees, and tear the roofs off of buildings?
What is hurricane winds.
A storm that can cause extensive damage to property.
What is a tornado?
Hailstorms
What can damage crops and cars and break windows?
Between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M..
What is the time that you should protect your skin?
The sound when lightning strikes.
What is thunder?
Storm Surge
What is it called when a hurricane push a huge mass of ocean water?
The high speeds of its winds
What is the danger of a tornado mainly due to?
Rains that can cause flash floods and can bring these types of ice from clouds.
What are heavy rains and hailstones?
Prolonged exposure to the sun.
What will lead to sunburn even to the darkest-skinned people?