-
- About the Hyogo Framework for Action
- HFA Progress Reports
- HFA Monitoring & Review
- HFA Mid-Term Review
- Global Assessment Report
- Millennium Development Goals
- ISDR System
- Global Platform
- Regional Platforms & DRR Strategies
- National Platforms
- Key Documents
- Countries & Regions
-
- Capacity Development
- Civil Society/NGOs
- Climate Change
- Community-based DRR
- Complex Emergency
- Critical Infrastructure
- Disaster Risk Management
- Early Warning
- Economics of DRR
- Education & School Safety
- Environment
- Food Security & Agriculture
- Gender
- GIS & Mapping
- Governance
- Health & Health Facilities
- Indigenous Knowledge
- Information Management
- Insurance & Risk Transfer
- Media
- Public-private Partnerships
- Recovery
- Risk Identification & Assessment
- Social Impacts & Resilience
- Space Technology
- Structural Safety
- Urban Risk & Planning
- Vulnerable Populations
- Water
-
- Avalanche
- Cold Wave
- Cyclone
- Drought
- Earthquake
- Epidemic
- Flood
- Heat Wave
- Insect Infestation
- Land Slide
- Storm Surge
- Technical Disaster
- Tornado
- Tsunami
- Volcano
- Wild Fire
- Organization Contacts
- Networks & Communities
- Training & Events
- Academic Programmes
- Educational Materials
- Jobs
- Terminology
- Documents & Publications
- Policy, Plans & Statements
- News & Announcements
- Multimedia
- Maps
- Disaster Data & Statistics
- UN Resolutions & Reports
Tornado
A violently rotating storm of small diameter; the most violent weather phenomenon. It is produced in a very severe thunderstorm and appears as a funnel cloud extending from the base of a cumulonimbus to the ground. A funnel cloud is a tornado that has not touched the ground. Tornados can appear in many different colors depending on the type of dust they pick up from the earth. sources: GLIDE; WMO
USA: TRAC report seeks to improve tornado preparedness
2 Feb 2012, UAB
'Our first goal is to save lives. So, the recommendations related to storm shelters and preparedness – the recommendation on how we warn our citizens – will probably be the most important'...
- Extreme weather preparedness06 Jun 2012, United States of America (Amherst, MA)
- IUGG GRC conference: Extreme natural hazards and their impacts15-18 Dec 2012, United States of America (Orange, California)
- Disaster Management and Humanitarian AssistanceUH, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Emergency ManagementFleming College, Peterborough, Ontario
- Disaster ManagementGlobal Fields Inst, Nairobi, Kenya
Disaster risk redution educational intitiatives for schoolchildren (DRREIS): a best practice guide for uplands areas of Vietnam2011, CECI
Teaching disaste risk reduction with interactive methods: book for head of class teachers, grades V-IX2011, ECHO; Min of Edu and Science, Georgia - gov; UNICEF
Cultivating a state of readiness: our response to April 27, 20112012, TRAC, United States of America - gov
CoreLogic 2011 natural hazard risk summary and analysis2011, CoreLogic
Munich Re: Worldwide distribution of natural catastrophes in 2011Jan 2012, Munich Re
Natural loss events January – June 2011Jul 2011, Munich Re
| Source of data: OFDA/CRED International Disaster Database |
Find or contribute curricular, extra-curricular and public awareness materials on disaster prevention and school safety for primary, secondary, vocational, community-based education and public awareness.