I made this for my 5th graders learning about severe weather. There is also a tornado activity at the end.

1. What causes severe weather?

3. Lightning
▪ Lightning kills 2,000 people each year
▪ Oak trees are struck more than any other tree because they contain more
water.
▪ Is lightning helpful?

4. Lightning & Thunderstorms
▪ Thunderstorms have three main
things to them
Lightning is a part
of thunderstorm. ▪ Wind- a updraft is created and
Lightning has both takes warm moist air.
positive and negative ▪ Water- for the rain drops
charges.
▪ Heat- heat helps with the
positive and negative charges
that helps makes lightning
▪ Some times there is even hail
in storms

5. Blizzards
▪ Snow storms
▪ Nor'easter
▪ Safety

6. Hurricanes
▪ Atlantic hurricane season last from June 1st to
November 30th . The end date was October
31st.
▪ Hurricanes were first given names in the 19th
century by Clement Wragge, an Australian
weatherman.
▪ 2005 there were so many hurricanes that the
NHC started to use the Greek alphabet.

7. What do hurricanes have to do with aftica?

9. Tropical disturbance
Tropical depression
Sandy

11. The Saffir-Simpson scale

12. Tornados
▪ Tornadoes don’t last more than
ten minutes.
▪ Texas is the number one state
for killer and the most
tornadoes.
▪ Where is tornado ally?

13. The Fujita Scale and
how to find a possible tornado
Tetsuya Theodore Fujita in 1971
created the Fujita scale to rank
tornadoes.
This helps meteorologists tell the
public in how severe the tornado will
be.

14. How is a tornado formed?
▪ Step one: Air is rolled between two different winds.
▪ Step two: This rolled air turns up so it is standing.
▪ Step three: after the air stands up when it touches the ground it
becomes a tornado.

15. Watches, warnings and emergencies
Hurricane Tornadoes
▪ Tropical storm and Hurricane watch- ▪ Tornado watch- means that there
issued 48 hours prior to storm like maybe tornadoes in the area
conditions to take effect.
▪ Tornado warning- a tornado has been
▪ Tropical Storm and Hurricane Warnning- sighted. Take shelter
issued 36 hours till storm hits the area in
question. ▪ Tornado emergency- a large violent
tornado is coming get inside.

17. How to make Tornadoes
Things we need…..
•Duct tape
•Water
•2 Two liter bottles each