Sunday, March 21, 2010

Week of March 22, 2009

I hope everyone had a great Spring Break and I am very glad to have each one of you back! It is becoming that time of year with crazy weather watches and warnings so I feel its important to do a little research on several different kinds of severe weather as well as not so severe. I would like for you to be able to answer these questions.


What is the difference between a Watch and a Warning?


What is Terrible Tuesday? When did Terrible Tuesday take place? How Big Was it?

40 comments:

  1. the difference between a weather watch and a weather warning is,a weather warning means its happining right now ,and a weather watch is warning people before it happens

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  2. 1.A watch means if the conditions are right for the event to happen.A warning means the condition is imminent or already happening.
    2.the 1979 Red River valley outbreak was a tornado event.It took place on April 10,1979.It was 47 seven miles long. It was considered a f4 tornado.

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  3. tornado, April 1979, a watch is that a tornado is possible in your area warning means that a tornado has been spotted by a weather radar

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  4. A Watch is used when the risk of hazardous weather has increased significanly
    a warning is issued when a hazardous weather event is occuring!

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  5. 1#:WATCH-MEANS THAT THAT CONDITIONS ARE RIGHT FOR THE EVENT TO HAPPEN.
    WARNING-MEANS CONDITION IS ALREADY HAPPENING.

    2#:A day of Depresion.

    3#:October 27

    4#:Huge

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  6. 1. a watch is to alert people
    2. April, 10 1979, a verry big disaster, F4

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  7. It happened on April 10, 1979. It was a tornado out break.It was an F4 tornado:(

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  8. what is terible tuesday?
    it`s when wichita had a big tornado.
    when did it take place?
    april 1979.
    how big was it?
    it was a f4

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  9. 1.a warning is in advance
    2.a storm
    3.April 10,1997
    4.a monster tornado

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  10. means that storms armeans that a tornado has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take sheltere possible in your area.

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  11. means that storms are possible in your area means that tornadoes are possible in your area

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  12. A Tornado Watch
    means that tornadoes are possible in your area.
    What is the difference between a Tornado Watch and a Tornado Warning?

    A Tornado Watch
    means that tornadoes are possible in your area.

    A Tornado Warning
    means that a tornado has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter.

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  13. a watch means that stormsare possible in your area.

    means that a tornado has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter.

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  14. A "watch" means that conditions are right for the event to happen. So, for example, if we say there's a "High Wind Watch" for an area, that means that high winds are possible, but not imminent. It's an early heads up that something

    A "warning" means the condition is imminent or already happening. Thus, a "High Wind Warning" means that high winds are happening now, or are going to happen in the warning area.

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  15. means that a tornado has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter storms are possible in your area

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  16. means that tornadoes are possible in your area.

    means that a tornado has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter

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  17. A watch means that storms are possible in your area.

    A warning means that a storm has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter.

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  18. mean storms are possible in your area


    .means that a tornado has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter

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  19. A "watch" means that conditions are right for the event to happen. So, for example, if we say there's a "High Wind Watch" for an area, that means that high winds are possible, but not imminent. It's an early heads up that something merits close attention.
    A "warning" means the condition is imminent or already happening. Thus, a "High Wind Warning" means that high winds are happening now, or are going to happen in the warning area.

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  20. A watch means that storms are possible in your area.
    A warning that a storm has been sighted or in indicated by weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter.

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  21. a watch means that storm are possible in your area

    a warning means that a storm has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter

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  22. A Tornado Watch
    means that storms are possible in your area.

    A storms warning
    means that a tornado has been sighted or indicated by
    weather radar and it is time for you to take shelter.

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  23. A watch means it is possible to happen and a warning means that its been sighted by a weather radar.

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  24. A "watch" means that conditions are right for the event to happen.A "warning" means the condition is imminent or already happening.
    Terrible Tuesday is a tornado in 1979.

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  25. A weather watch is issued to alert people in a certain region, in advance, that conditions are ripe for dangerous weather. A weather watch essentially means a “chance” this condition will happen and usually covers a large geographical area for a lengthy time period. -Anonymous

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  26. It was April 10, 1979, that Mother Nature grew furious.

    It was when three supercells spawned a series of tornadoes that dispatched that fury - more than 50 tornadoes that barreled through not only Texas and Oklahoma, but through Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Alabama. It was the perfect storm, and Wichita Falls was in the middle of it all. -Anonymous

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  27. The 1979 Red River Valley tornado outbreak was a tornado event that occurred on April 10, 1979 near the Red River Valley. It's most noted for the F4 tornado that hit Wichita Falls, Texas and is commonly referred to as "Terrible Tuesday" by many meteorologists.

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  28. Terrible Tuesday: Remembering the April 1979 Wichita Falls tornadoLubbock Avalanche-Journal
    Monday, March 16, 2009
    Story last updated at 3/16/2009 - 1:19 am

    WICHITA FALLS (AP) - Weather isn't taken lightly in North Texas, where big skies stretch on forever, silhouetting oil rigs and cottonwoods in eternal expanses.

    Where the jolly sun beams in concentrated smiles, as if through a looking glass, parching the red dirt and crackling the ground so that it, too, smiles back.

    Where Mother Nature isn't always so neighborly.

    It was April 10, 1979, that Mother Nature grew furious.

    It was when three supercells spawned a series of tornadoes that dispatched that fury - more than 50 tornadoes that barreled through not only Texas and Oklahoma, but through Kansas, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana, Nebraska, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana and Alabama.

    It was the perfect storm, and Wichita Falls was in the middle of it all.

    An F4 tornado hit Wichita Falls late in the afternoon that day, Terrible Tuesday, killing 42 people in Wichita County and another 12 in Wilbarger County as it dug its heels over almost 47 miles, leaving unimaginable damage in its path.

    It's been nearly 30 years since that day, and the Wichita Falls Museum of North Texas History is remembering the Terrible Tuesday that left its indelible mark in the area with its latest exhibit, "Gone With the Big Wind: 30th Anniversary of the 1979 Tornado."

    The exhibit is mainly a photography exhibit, with countless 8x10 black-and-white images displayed at the museum showing the destruction: cars pummeled as if they were made of tin, and frames of houses surrounded by a swirl of debris.

    Also on display is the Red River Chapter of the Embroiderers Guild of America tapestry that's on loan to the museum for the exhibit. It has moved from its permanent display home at the Wichita Falls Public Library to the museum for the next few months.

    "It's the story of the town and the town's recovery," said Lita Watson, head of the Wichita County Archives and executive director of the history museum.

    The embroidery work doesn't just remember the tragedy of that day, but the ability of the people in Wichita Falls to renew themselves.

    The work includes some of the humorous signs that showed up around town after the tornado: "For rent: hall and half bath" and "split level/half-split level."

    A number of articles about that day have been reprinted and are on display along with the various photographs, like an article about a missing, 10-foot diameter giant golf ball and an 8-foot tee.

    "The giant ball and tee may be (one of) the most unusual items lost by residents of Wichita Falls in last week's tornado. The ball, mounted on its tee, was located at the golf driving range on Southwest Parkway," reads a Wichita Falls Record News article from April 18, 1979.

    Another article reprinted from the April 9, 1999, Times Record News said of that day: "The mile-wide tornado that ripped through Wichita Falls on April 10, 1979, was one of the deadliest in U.S. history."

    Watson herself includes her memory of that day in the exhibit: "Dr. Earl Watson, our son Wayne and I did some shopping that Tuesday afternoon at Sikes Senter ... We went back to Iowa Park," she wrote. Her family kept track of the ominous storm brewing around them as they listened to the radio. "From there, we watched a funnel cloud go north across the Red River ... Dr. Watson and Wayne headed toward General Hospital to treat the wounded."

    It's just one of the many stories that day from that unforgettable tornado - stories that still have not been forgotten even three decades later

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  29. A warning is issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, is imminent, or has a very high probability of occurring.

    .It happened in 1979. It was spinning over 200
    miles.Moving and growing.It got bigger.And it got eving bigger and darker.And at school they have to do in the hallway and duck thier heads.

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  30. A weather watch is issued to alert people in a certain region. a warning is issued when a tornado has been sighted, or when rotation is seen on radar.For folks in Wichita Falls, April 10 is a special date. In 1979, April 10 fell on a Tuesday, and that day came to be called "Terrible Tuesday

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  31. Terrible Tuseday was a tornado that hit Wichitall Falls.April 10-11 1979 and it f4.

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  32. It was April 10, 1979, that Mother Nature grew furious.
    Nature grew furious

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  33. The basic difference between a weather watch and a weather warning is the immediacy of weather conditions.

    terrible tuesday was a tornado that hit wichita at april 1979 and it was a f4.

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  34. is the immediacy of weather conititions.

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  35. watches means it could happen warning mean it will happen

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  36. it was a big tornadoe in wichitta,it took place in April 1979, it was a F4

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  37. It was a big tornadoe that destroyed witchata falls texas. it killed many lifes and many houses and stores. It happend April 19,1979.

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  38. IT was one of the biggest tornados ... it took place in Texas and was on the day of April 10 1979 ... 4.2 ... =(

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  39. terrible tuesday was four torandos combined it was f4 it was April 10 1979

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  40. 1 is the immediacy of weather conditions.

    2 it was a tornado-April 10,1979- it was a f4 tornado

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