Wednesday 21 March 2012

Intensity and duration

On Earth, a lot of dust devils are actual baby and weak, generally beneath than 3 anxiety (0.9 m) in bore with best apprehension averaging about 45 afar per hour (70 km/h), and they generally blow beneath than a minute afterwards forming. On attenuate occasions, a dust devil can abound actual ample and intense, sometimes extensive a bore of up to 300 anxiety (90 m) with apprehension in balance of 60 mph (100 km/h) and can endure for upwards of 20 account afore dissipating.5

Dust devils about do not could cause injuries, but rare, astringent dust devils accept acquired accident and even deaths in the past. One such dust devil addled the Coconino County Fairgrounds in Flagstaff, Arizona, on September 14, 2000. Extensive accident occurred to several acting tents, stands and booths, as able-bodied as some abiding fairgrounds structures. In addition, several injuries were reported, but there were no fatalities. Based on the amount of accident larboard behind, it is estimated that the dust devil produced apprehension as top as 75 mph (120 km/h), which is agnate to an EF0 tornado.6 On May 19, 2003, a dust devil aerial the roof off a two-story architecture in Lebanon, Maine, causing it to collapse and annihilate a man inside.78 On June 18, 2008, a dust devil burst a afford abreast Casper, Wyoming, killing a woman.9 In 2010, three accouchement in an inflatable jump abode were best up by a dust devil and were agitated over 10-foot (3 m) high, over a fence and landed in a backyard three houses away, in east El Paso, Texas.10

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