Tornadoes
The strongest rating of a tornado. (EF rating)
What is EF5?
The strongest rating of a hurricane. (Category rating)
What is Category 5?
A supercell thunderstorm
What is a thunderstorm capable of forming a tornado?
Definition of a volcanic eruption
What is lava and gas released from a volcanic vent?
Definition of an earthquake
What is the rolling, shaking, or sudden shock of the Earth's ground.
This tornado traveled across three states, and was so shrouded in cloud, no one could tell what it is
What is the Tri-State Tornado?
This hurricane caused $70 billion in damage and killed 233 people in countries from the Caribbean to Canada in 2012
What is Hurricane Sandy?
Definition of a thunderstorm
What is a storm with thunder and lightning and typically heavy rain or hail?
The strongest rating of a volcanic eruption. (VEI rating)
What is VEI 8?
The highest scale of an earthquake. (Magnitude scale)
What is magnitude 8 or greater?
A tornado that catches flames
What is a firenado?
This hurricane was a large category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 deaths $125 billion in damage in August 2005
What is Hurricane Katrina?
This thunderstorm is the most costly thunderstorm in U.S. history, focusing its power on central Iowa
What is the Iowa Derecho?
This volcano created the loudest noise ever recorded in human history 1883
What is Krakatoa?
This earthquake struck in the afternoon of January 12, 2010. It also ranked a magnitude 7.0.
What is the 2010 Haiti earthquake?
This tornado traveled across whole cities in Oklahoma, and also had a wind speed of 318 MPH. It was recorded as the strongest tornado ever recorded in human history
What is the Moore, Oklahoma tornado?
This tornado was regionally known as The Great Storm of 1900. It was the deadliest natural disaster in U.S. history and was ranked the fifth-deadliest Atlantic hurricane in human history
What is the Galveston Hurricane of 1900?
The four types of thunderstorms
What are The Single-Cell, the Multi-Cell, the Squall Line, and the Supercell.
This volcano in 1815 caused a global panic as it blocked out the sun and caused crops to fail and people to die. It also caused the "Year Without a Summer" in 1816
What is Mount Tambora?
This earthquake struck on April 18, 1906. and killed 3,000 people. It also had a magnitude of 7.9.
What is the San Francisco 1906 earthquake?
This outbreak of tornadoes struck on April 5-6, 1936, and killed approximately 454 people. It was recorded as the second deadliest outbreak in U.S. history
What is the Tupelo, Gainesville tornado outbreak?
This hurricane was the worst hurricane in human history and resulted in 22,000–27,501 deaths and struck Barbados on October 9, 1780
The Great Hurricane of 1780
This supercell storm poured 170.8 mm of rain in just 2.5 hours. With hail as large as 16 mm. This was one of the highest rainfall rates of the twentieth century
What is the Hampstead Storm?
This volcanic eruption happened 640,000+ years ago and ranked a VEI 8. After it exploded it formed a caldera in the place of the eruption
What is the Yellowstone Volcanic Explosion?
According to Imperial records, this earthquake killed 830,000+ people in Shaanxi. It is ranked the deadliest earthquake in recorded history
What is the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake?