Sentence examples for debris ball from inspiring English sources

The radar showed a debris ball in the air over El Reno, but there was no way to know exactly what damage had been done.

The two-and-a-quarter-mile-wide "debris ball" — the funnel at its center was more than a mile wide — damaged thirteen thousand houses and destroyed the Plaza Towers Elementary School, the Briarwood Elementary School, the AgapeLand day-care center, the agritainment Orr Family Farm (killing close to a hundred horses), and the whole of the Moore Medical Center.

A debris ball was observed by the Birmingham NEXRAD, indicating that the tornado was causing extreme damage.

Tornadoes can be detected before or as they occur through the use of Pulse-Doppler radar by recognizing patterns in velocity and reflectivity data, such as hook echoes or debris balls, as well as through the efforts of storm spotters.

All hip devices, regardless of the material, create debris as the ball rotates and rubs against the cuplike socket.

BP now plans a "top kill," which involves pumping heavy drilling mud into the well to seal it, or perhaps a "junk shot," injecting solid debris like golf balls to clog up the well.

Amid mixed messages about problems and progress, the effort — called a "top kill" — continued for a third day, with engineers describing a painstaking process of trying to plug the hole, using different weights of mud and sizes of debris like golf balls and tires, and then watching and waiting.

William Wilson, 56, described "a mass of debris and gas balls coming down" as he left work, an engine flying away overhead and "pieces of metal and stuff coming through the roofs around us". His colleague in the motor-fitting shop was Thomas B. Flannigan of 16 Sherwood Crescent, who had gone home half an hour earlier.

The debris resulting in ball-on-disk tests were analyzed by energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and Raman.

I can see Liberty Street before me as I feel a ball of debris hit us.

Woods attended to his lie as best he could picking at the debris, during which his ball moved a fraction.