Devastating Weather Web Resources
 
Hurricanes

A Comparison of Droughts, Floods, and Hurricanes in the U.S.
http://www.drought.unl.edu/kids/impacts/compare.htm

National Hurricane Center Archive of Past Hurricane Seasons
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastall.shtml

Severe Weather: Hurricane Damage
This site provides a graph of severe weather-related deaths from 1940 through 1991
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/sevweath/swdamage.html

Severe Weather: Hurricane Intensity & the Saffir-Simpson Scale
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/sevweath/swintensity.html

Tropical Twisters: How Dangerous are They?
http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/archive/hurricane/damage.html

The Fury of Hurricanes
http://www.firstscience.com/site/articles/hurricanes.asp

Summary of Hurricane Katrina Storm Impacts
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2005/katrina.html#impacts

USA Today: Hurricane History
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/whhistry.htm

Hurricane Movies
http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/rsd/movies/movies.html

Hurricane Pictures
http://community.webshots.com/topics/34/188020534_views_0.htm

http://www.picsearch.com/search.cgi?q=hurricane

http://www.altavista.com/image/results?q=hurricane&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

Tornadoes
 

Tornado Project Online!
http://www.tornadoproject.com

Storm Prediction Center: Deadly Tornadoes
http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/

USA Today: Tornado History
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/resources/basics/tornado-history.htm

Tornado Pictures
http://www.picsearch.com/search.cgi?q=tornado
http://www.altavista.com/image/results?q=tornado&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

Disasters
 

*Societal Aspects of Weather
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/socasp/toc_text.html

Extreme Weather Sourcebook (Economic and Other Societal Impacts)
http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/sourcebook/index.html

Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/reports/billionz.html

Worldwide Weather and Climate Events
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/reports/weather-events.html

Lightning Fatalities, Injuries, and Damage Reports in the United States
http://www.lightningsafety.com/nlsi_lls/fatalities_us.html

Floods

Flood Deaths by State; 1988–1997
http://www.essc.psu.edu/hazards/rawdata/flood1.htm

A Comparison of Droughts, Floods, and Hurricanes in the U.S.
http://www.drought.unl.edu/kids/impacts/compare.htm

Hydrologic Information Center: Floods
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/hist.shtml
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hic/flood_stats/Flood_loss_time_series.htm

USA Today: Flood and Drought History
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/whydro00.htm

Flood Pictures
http://www.picsearch.com/search.cgi?q=flood
http://www.altavista.com/image/results?q=flood&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

Droughts
 

A Comparison of Droughts, Floods, and Hurricanes in the U.S.
http://www.drought.unl.edu/kids/impacts/compare.htm

Drought - Dust Bowl
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dustbowl/peopleevents/pandeAMEX06.html

Drought Pictures
http://www.picsearch.com/search.cgi?q=drought
http://www.altavista.com/image/results?q=drought&mik=photo&mik=graphic&mip=all&mis=all&miwxh=all

   

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