ABSTRACT
This chapter covers storm hazards through precipitation, wind, lightning, air temperature and humidity. These can compound for winter storms, thunderstorms, hailstorms, cyclonic storms, tornadoes and others. Storm hazards impact people through multiple causes of deaths, injuries and mental health consequences as well as the results of damage to infrastructure, agriculture and systems for water, energy and health. The chapter describes these connected categories of storm hazards, and how they compound, and then examines two specific categories: cyclonic storms and tornadic storms. Risk assessment and management include warnings, building codes, planning regulations and giving people resources and opportunities to get information and to act on it. Challenges emerge in determining the appropriate actions when dealing with multiple storm hazards. Every year brings dozens of cyclonic storms from the low to high latitudes, with variability in numbers and parameters being high from year to year and within individual ocean basins.
