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Noaa: Nautical Chart

For Students 3rd - 5th
Can you make a chart that allows boats to travel the waterways safely? In this activity, students create their own nautical chart trying to accomplish specific tasks.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Enid Tornado, Photo #1

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is taken of a tornado just starting to develop in the town of Enid, Oklahoma on June 5, 1966.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Enid Tornado, Photo #2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph was taken in 1966 of a tornado in Enid, Oklahoma beginning to grow and develop.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Enid Tornado, Photo #3

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph was taken in 1966 of a tornado in Enid, Oklahoma in a mature state of development.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Enid Tornado, Photo #4

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is taken in 1966 of a tornado in Enid, Oklahoma in a mature state of development.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Union City Tornado, Photo #1

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph, captured by doppler radar, is of a tornado in its early stage of development in Union City, Oklahoma.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Union City Tornado, Photo #2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph, captured by doppler radar, is of a tornado in its early stage of development in Union City, Oklahoma.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Union City Tornado, Photo #3

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph, captured by doppler radar, is of a tornado in its early stage of development in Union City, Oklahoma, 1973.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Union City Tornado, Photo #4

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph, captured by doppler radar, is of a tornado in its early stage of development in Union City, Oklahoma, 1973.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Union City Tornado, Photo #5

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph, captured by doppler radar, is of a tornado in a mature stage of formation in Union City, Oklahoma, 1973.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Dimmitt Tornado, Photo #2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of a tornado captured in Dimmitt, Texas on June 2, 1995.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Dimmitt Tornado, Photo #3

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of a tornado captured in Dimmitt, Texas on June 2, 1995.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Nssl Doppler Weather Radar, Photo #1

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations and the instruments that measure them. Here you can find a photograph of the first Doppler weather radar built by the National...
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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Utilizing time-lapse photography, this photograph captures multiple cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a nighttime...
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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 4

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Using time-lapse photography, this image captures numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a nighttime thunderstorm in...
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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 5

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Originally appearing in National Geographic Magazine, this photograph captures a lightning strike above Norman, Oklahoma.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 6

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph captures several lightning strikes during an early evening thunderstorm.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Hail Photo 1

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph of a hailstone is measured on a ruler to indicate a diameter of 6 inches (approximately the size of a grapefruit).
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Noaa: Photo Library: Cumulus Clouds, Photo #1

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Here you can find a photograph capturing cumulus clouds being formed over water.
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Noaa: Ngdc: Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this short online quiz and find out how much you know about volcanoes.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Hail: Photo #2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph of a hailstone is measured on a ruler to indicate a diameter of 4 inches (approximately the size of a baseball).
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Noaa: Photo Library: Cordell Tornado, Photo #3

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of a tornado in its "Rope" stage, captured in Cordell, Oklahoma on May 22, 1981.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Cordell Tornado, Photo #2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of a tornado in Cordell, Oklahoma on May 22, 1981.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Cordell Tornado, Photo #1

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of a tornado in the process of dying, captured in Cordell, Oklahoma on May 22, 1981.