Word List Hurricanes 276 words

Hurricanes Vocabulary Word List (276)

• A

  affect, air pressure, alert, anchor, anemometer, anxiety, area, arrival, assistance, August

• B

  barometric pressure, barrier islands, batter, batteries, beachfront, blow, blown to bits, board-up, boarded, brace, breakage, broadcast, brunt, brutal, buffet, bulletin

• C

  calm, Caribbean, category, cause, changing, closed off, clouds, coast, community, conditions, confirmation, consequences, control, cooperation, coping, counterclockwise, courage, course, crisis, cyclone

• D

  damage, danger, data, deadly, death, debris, depression, destination, destruction, destruction, devastation, development, direct hit, direction, disease, dollars, Doppler, douse

• E

  effect, electrical power, emergency, endanger, energy, equator, erratic, evacuation, evaporation, examination, experiment, eye, eye-wall

• F

  failure, fear, flashlight, flee, float, flood, flooding, flotsam, focus, foolhardy, force, forebode, forecast, forerunner, foretell, formation, frenzy, frightening, fronds

• G

  generate, go!, government, Gulf of Mexico, gusts

• H

  heed, help, high tide, hit, horror, howling, huge, hundreds

• I

  immense, impact, infamous, information, injury, insane, intensity, inundate

• J

  jostle, July, June, junk

• K

  kick up, kill, knots

• L

  land, landfall, lantern, large, lash, latitude, life-and-death, lightening, likelihood, loom, looting, loss, loud

• M

  mandatory, manning, meteorologist, miles per hour, mourn, movement

• N

  nailed, National Hurricane Research Laboratory, National Weather Service, nature, nerves, news, newscaster, November

• O

  obstacles, ocean, official, ominous, operation, options, outage, outrun, overflow, overwhelm

• P

  panic, path, pessimism, photo, picture, pinpoint, plan, police, power, powerful, precaution, prediction, preparations, pressure, priority, prolonged, protection

• Q

  quandary, questions, quick

• R

  radar, radio, rain, rapid, ravage, reach, reality, records, recovery, Red Cross, regions, remnants, repairs, reporting, rescue, research, response, rise, risk, roar, ruin

• S

  safety, Saffir/Simpson Hurricane Scale, satellite, scenario, scientist, sea, search-and-rescue, season, seeding, September, services, sewage, shatter, shelter, shutter, situation, speed, state, storm, storm surge, strike, strong, struck, study, surge, survivor, sustained

• T

  target, temperature, tend to, thousands, threatening, tides, tracking, tragedy, trajectory, travel, tropical, turbulence, typhoon

• U

  unbelievable, underwater, unusual, unwelcome, update, urge

• V

  vector, veer, velocity, vengeance

• W

  wait, wall clouds, warning, washed out, watch, water, waves, weaken, weather, whip, whirling, widespread, wind, winds, worrisome, wreck, wreckage

• X

• Y

  year, yelling, yield

• Z

  zigzag, zone, zoom