Sentences with phrase «by a tornado last»

Sometimes a game is just a game, but for one Alabama town whose high school was leveled by a tornado last year, the football team's success is a testimonial to the community's determination to carry on.

SunChips is donating money to green Greensburg, Kansas, which was destroyed by a tornado last year.

Not exact matches

Last spring a research team led by Michael Tippett, associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia Engineering, published a study showing that the average number of tornadoes during outbreaks — large - scale weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1Last spring a research team led by Michael Tippett, associate professor of applied physics and applied mathematics at Columbia Engineering, published a study showing that the average number of tornadoes during outbreaks — large - scale weather events that can last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1last one to three days and span huge regions — has risen since 1954.

The Hollywood sign mercilessly erased by an enormous tornado, the Statue of Liberty submerged by a gigantic tidal wave, the Empire State Building teetering perilously in a massive blizzard — apparently, the post-9 / 11 cinematic moratorium on destroying national landmarks for disposable summer kicks has lasted only two and a half years.

Tulsans and their pets may have been largely spared by the tornadoes that ripped through the state last week, but our neighbors to the northeast in Joplin are still recovering from a deadly EF - 5 tornado.

In the last few years, team members have deployed to help animals affected by Hurricane Sandy and the tornadoes in Joplin, Missouri and Moore, Oklahoma.

Six scientists focused on how tornadoes might be affected by global warming last week criticized the central claim in «The Truth About Tornadoes,» a recent Op - Ed article asserting there was a measurable decline in strong ttornadoes might be affected by global warming last week criticized the central claim in «The Truth About Tornadoes,» a recent Op - Ed article asserting there was a measurable decline in strong tTornadoes,» a recent Op - Ed article asserting there was a measurable decline in strong tornadoestornadoes.

For example, the winds measured by such radars in last May's 2.6 - mile - wide tornado near El Reno, Oklahoma, topped 280 mph, which would place it well into the EF5 range (200 + mph).

The piece, building on the discussion that has followed the deaths of three storm chasers in a powerful Oklahoma tornado last Friday, is written by Mike Smith, an entrepreneurial (and blogging) meteorologist focused on extreme weather.

Last January, when there was a rare winter tornado outbreak, and some talk of human - driven global warming playing a role, I consulted a batch of meteorologists and climate scientists who have studied trends in the categories of tornadoes that kill people, which are those designated F2 through F5 on the five - step Fujita scale of intensity (gauged by the amount and type of damage that is wrought).

The fear mongers use the IPCC as a starting place to tell us how the victims of last week's tornadoes deserved it, and how brown recluse spiders are advancing because of AGW and how Manhattan is going to be underwater by last year with a sub-tropical climate.

For example, the winds measured by these radars in last May's 2.6 - mile - wide tornado near El Reno, Okla., topped 280 mph, which would have placed it well into the EF5 range (200 + mph).

Pielke's study provides a counterpoint to a report released earlier this month by Munich Re, the world's largest reinsurance firm, which noted that climate change is driving the increase in natural disasters such as the severe storms and tornadoes that hammered the U.S. last year.

Plano has been struck by tornadoes, floods, and hail within the last few years.

Hundreds have been destroyed by tornadoes and floods since they were last constructed in 1950, but their biggest threats are bulldozers.

Pat made the upholstered headboard and duvet cover; the column in the corner was ripped off her daughter's front porch last spring by a tornado.