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Flood Awareness - CRS - Community Rating System

National Hurricane Center - The Tropical Prediction Center home page can provide hours of interesting investigation on the subject of hurricanes. Learn from the section on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), and about the history of noteworthy storms, hurricane direct hits on the mainland U.S. coastline and for individual states from 1900-1996 and lots more.

Hurricane Names - Hurricanes have names that are taken from a central list. Is your name there? Take a look at the names for the World-Wide Tropical Cyclone Names that are to be used for storms in the Atlantic and the Pacific as well as the waters around Australia, the Fiji Islands and India.

Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale - This scale is a 1-5 rating based on the hurricane's intensity. The scale is used to give an estimate of the potential property damage and flooding expected along the coast from a hurricane landfall. Wind speed is the determining factor in the scale, as storm surge values are highly dependent on the slope of the continental shelf in the landfall region.

Hurricane Tracking Chart - You can download this image of the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to northern South America and the Gulf of Mexico to track Atlantic hurricanes.

Hurricane Basics - This booklet, in pdf format, provides you with the anatomy of a hurricane and the ingredients that make these killer storms come alive. Graphics help the reader understand how the storms form. As the heat and energy for the storm are gathered by the disturbance through contact with warm ocean waters, the winds near the ocean surface spiral into the disturbance's low pressure area. Learn more from this booklet.

All About Tornados

Tornadoes...Nature's Most Violent Storms: A Preparedness Guide - Explains how tornadoes are formed and what steps need to be taken to stay safe. This site also contains a Tornado Safety Plan for Schools.

Questions and Answers About Tornadoes - Focuses on the need for safety, and it provides easy to understand text about the characteristics of tornadoes.

 
FEMA - Federal Emergency Management Agency