Severe Weather Awareness Week is upon us. As a part of Florida’s Severe Weather Awareness Week activities, a 20 minutes statewide Tornado Drill will Be held Tomorrow, Wednesday, February 4th, at 10:10 a.m.
For instructions, here’s a link to the NWS tornado safety page.
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This week is Severe Weather Awareness Week in both the States of Florida and Georgia. As a part of each state’s Severe Weather Awareness Week activities statewide Tornado Drills will Be held on Wednesday, February 4th.
The Tornado Drill/Routine Weekly Test for the State of Georgia will be held at 9:00 a.m. and Florida’s at 10:10 a.m. and will be transmitted on transmitters serving the respective states. This drill will last for 20 to 30 minutes.
Resolve to take the actions you would take for a Tornado Warning for your school…hospital…nursing home or facility.
If there are any questions regarding the Tornado Drills please contact the National Weather Service office in Jacksonville at 800-499-1594 extension 1.
Today is the first anniversary of the Washington, IL November 17, 2014 tornado. The tornado initially developed over the East Peoria County, IL at 10:59am CST and then moved northward towards Tazewell County and the city of Washington, reaching EF-4 intensity. The length of this tornado path was 46.2 miles, taking it through three counties. It caused several fatality, 122 injuries and damaged as many as 500 buildings in the city of Washington.
This tornado was one of 45 confirmed tornadoes resulting from a significant outbreak of severe thunderstorms.
Continue to the WHDAG’s 17 November 2013 Illinois Online Damage Report
Read up on recovery efforts
Join a TweetChat hosted by @PrepareAthon to learn how to practice preparedness 9/23 @2PM ET #PrepareChat #NatlPrep
Check out these five simple steps to be ready for the hazards of fall.
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Related Links: Weather Ready | NWS Tweet Chat April 29th
View Dr. Prevatt’s most recent lecture on The Second Wave: Current Research Towards Tornado-Resilient Structures (Invited Presentation)
Two days ago there was an 80 percent chance of the storm system on the central or northern Atlantic coast of Florida developing into a tropical storm and on morning of July 2 the system did just that.
“Hurricane Arthur has strengthened some more this morning. Maximum sustained winds are now 90 mph, a strong Category 1 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.”
To stay up to date about to the developing storm, continue onto the National Hurricane Center’s Facebook page.
Click here to view clear aerial shots of the Joplin 2011 tornado damage and before /after comparisons
It’s been 3 years since the May 22, 2011 EF-5 tornado left a 7-mile long gash in the city of Joplin, over 5000 buildings destroyed, and 158 people dead. Two years after the storm, the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE published the Joplin, Missouri, Tornado of May 22, 2011: Structural Damage Survey and Case for Tornado-Resilient Building Codes.
Related: Post-Tornado Survey, Joplin, MO
This 50 page report followed a joint engineering reconnaissance trip to Joplin, Mo May 29, 2011. The primary objectives were to better understand the predominant structural failure mechanisms associated with tornadic loads and suggest improvements to influence future building practices.
Similar damage assessments have helped to inspire local governments to adopt new building codes, as was the case with Moore, Oklahoma. Just last month, the Moore City Council adopted new codes that would institute higher wind load standards for buildings.
The former Mercy Hospital Joplin in the Southwest part of the city, stood as a iconic testimony to the intensity of one the most deadly tornadoes in U.S. history. The hospital, demolished at the beginning of 2012, is now in the reconstruction processes scheduled to be completed March 2015, to continue to serve its some 700,000 patients.
Click here to discover more about the design & construction of the New Mercy Hospital Joplin
