Question

You have now learned about tornadoes by reviewing two sources: the passage from Tornado! and the article “New Alert System Designed to Warn Residents of Storms and Other Dangers.” Write an essay explaining the purpose of the information presented in both sources and how both authors presented the information.

To answer this prompt, you may want to:
Provide an objective summary of each text to make sure you have internalized what each text is about.
Examine the authors’ word choice to determine their tone or attitude toward the various topics discussed in the text.
Evaluate how the text is organized and developed, including how specific paragraphs and sentences develop and refine the authors’ ideas surrounding tornadoes.
Determine the central idea of each text and how each author conveys that central idea through their writing.
Support your answer with relevant details and evidence from each source to support your ideas. Observe the conventions of standard English as you write.

Answer 1

In both text “Tornado” and and “New Alert System Designed to Warn Residents of Storms and Other Dangers” they face challenges of this huge thunderstorm but do so in different ways.

In the text “Tornado” it talks about how tornadoes exceptions to a tornado’s ferocity can be explained. Such objects were lowered through the storm’s outer fringes. There, a rising air current let them descend to earth gently. A woman sought to hide from a tornado in a closet under her back stairway. A tornado can form suddenly in a minute sometimes. It can dart across the land with great speed, then abruptly vanish. In a matter of seconds, it can kill dozens of people. Each year tornadoes destroy half a billion dollars worth of property in the United States. It extended straight up for half a mile. Its walls were spinning clouds. Flashes of lightning let him see into the tornado. He watched small tornadoes constantly form. Tornadoes are by far nature’s most violent and damaging windstorms.

In the video “New Alert System Designed to Warn Residents of Storms and Other Dangers” it talks about how by a storm that toppled trees and damaged 30 homes in an area that included families. Carpenter said the telecommunications-based system is preferable to sirens, which can be ineffective in heavily wooded areas like Lake and muffled by noise-cancelling designs of some homes and new cars. Emergency management operations manager, said the alerts that were dispatched were sent out by a weather station outside of Florida and not the Melbourne station. He said the system is now tied into the Melbourne station.

In the text “Tornado” and “New Alert System Designed to Warn Residents of Storms and Other Dangers” they deal with tornadoes, hazards and warnings about how to cope with Tornadoes but, they have many of similarities. In “Tornado” He described a circular opening in the center of the funnel, between 50 and 100 feet in diameter. It extended straight up for half a mile. Its walls were spinning clouds. Flashes of lightning let him see into the tornado. He watched small tornadoes constantly form and break away with hissing, snakelike sounds. In the text “New Alert System Designed to Warn Residents of Storms and Other Dangers” it says how This is an advance for Emergency Management to be able to notify the public of any impending danger said Jerry Smith, Lake’s emergency, management director, who outlines the new system’s capabilities.

Ultimately, both “Tornado" and “New Alert System Designed to Warn Residents of Storms and Other Dangers” state how tornadoes can affect the area it is hitting, how they can be tracked.