Florida's Tornado Climatology: Occurrence Rates, Casualties, and Property Losses
Florida has a high frequency of tornadoes that occur throughout the United States. Together, Florida's large population and expensive property, provides a great risk for injuries, fatalities, and damage to structures for when a tornado occurs. This risk of death or damage continues to increase...
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ftfloridasu:oai:diginole.lib.fsu.edu:fsu_653500 2024-06-09T07:48:22+00:00 Florida's Tornado Climatology: Occurrence Rates, Casualties, and Property Losses Ryan, Emily (author) Elsner, James B. (professor directing thesis) Folch, David C. (committee member) Horner, Mark W. (committee member) Florida State University (degree granting institution) College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (degree granting college) Department of Geography (degree granting departmentdgg) 2018 1 online resource (79 pages) computer https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A653500/datastream/TN/view/Florida%27s%20Tornado%20Climatology.jpg English eng eng Tallahassee, Florida: Florida State University fsu:653500 (IID) 2018_Sp_Ryan_fsu_0071N_14554 https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu%3A653500/datastream/TN/view/Florida%27s%20Tornado%20Climatology.jpg Geography Climatic changes Meteorology Text master thesis 2018 ftfloridasu 2024-05-10T08:08:09Z Florida has a high frequency of tornadoes that occur throughout the United States. Together, Florida's large population and expensive property, provides a great risk for injuries, fatalities, and damage to structures for when a tornado occurs. This risk of death or damage continues to increase as the population expands. The goal of this research is to better understand the tornado hazard in Florida by creating a climatology of Florida tornadoes through examining occurrence rates, casualties, and property loss. The tornado reports are obtained from the Storm Prediction Center's Severe Weather database. Descriptive statistics are used to analyze temporal distributions, characteristics, and geographical distributions of tornadoes. Tropical cyclone tornado data from 1995 through 2013 is used for examining temporal distributions throughout the state. In addition, a new property value dataset put together by Georgianna Strode at the Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center is used to evaluate property loss from tornadoes throughout the state. Inferential statistics are used for testing hypotheses and modeling future tornado paths using a Monte Carlo simulation. Over the period from 1987 though 2016, there were 1,765 tornado reports in the state. The peak frequency occurs during the month of June with the overall tornado distribution mimicking the tropical cyclone distribution of the North Atlantic hurricane season. Majority of tornadoes occur in the peninsular region of the state, with tornadoes in the panhandle likely being stronger. There is a strong positive correlation between the amount of property exposed and the number of casualties produced by tornadoes. Although the majority of tornadoes that occur throughout Florida are very weak, the path length and width are shown to be increasing in recent years. Additionally, the annual average property loss estimate from tornadoes in Florida is $53 Million. Results of the Monte Carlo simulation indicate a 5% chance that the annual loss will exceed $203 ... Master Thesis North Atlantic Florida State University: DigiNole Commons |
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Florida has a high frequency of tornadoes that occur throughout the United States. Together, Florida's large population and expensive property, provides a great risk for injuries, fatalities, and damage to structures for when a tornado occurs. This risk of death or damage continues to increase as the population expands. The goal of this research is to better understand the tornado hazard in Florida by creating a climatology of Florida tornadoes through examining occurrence rates, casualties, and property loss. The tornado reports are obtained from the Storm Prediction Center's Severe Weather database. Descriptive statistics are used to analyze temporal distributions, characteristics, and geographical distributions of tornadoes. Tropical cyclone tornado data from 1995 through 2013 is used for examining temporal distributions throughout the state. In addition, a new property value dataset put together by Georgianna Strode at the Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center is used to evaluate property loss from tornadoes throughout the state. Inferential statistics are used for testing hypotheses and modeling future tornado paths using a Monte Carlo simulation. Over the period from 1987 though 2016, there were 1,765 tornado reports in the state. The peak frequency occurs during the month of June with the overall tornado distribution mimicking the tropical cyclone distribution of the North Atlantic hurricane season. Majority of tornadoes occur in the peninsular region of the state, with tornadoes in the panhandle likely being stronger. There is a strong positive correlation between the amount of property exposed and the number of casualties produced by tornadoes. Although the majority of tornadoes that occur throughout Florida are very weak, the path length and width are shown to be increasing in recent years. Additionally, the annual average property loss estimate from tornadoes in Florida is $53 Million. Results of the Monte Carlo simulation indicate a 5% chance that the annual loss will exceed $203 ... |
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Ryan, Emily (author) Elsner, James B. (professor directing thesis) Folch, David C. (committee member) Horner, Mark W. (committee member) Florida State University (degree granting institution) College of Social Sciences and Public Policy (degree granting college) Department of Geography (degree granting departmentdgg) |
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