Severe Weather Color by Number

Print the Tornado, or open More options for a hurricane, lightning, hail, a flood and 3 more.

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Color by number: Tornado

Color each square by its number. Squares with no number stay white.

111111111111
111111111111
1111111111
11111111
111111
11111
1111
111
1114
11444
4114333
222222222222

To color on screen, choose a color in the key, then tap the squares.

Tornado, 12 by 12, 4 colors.

Answer key: prints on page 2.

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Print gives a blank worksheet, and the colored answer key on page 2 when that box is ticked. Colors you fill in on screen stay on screen. By keyboard: the arrow keys move around the grid, Enter colors a square, a digit colors it by that number and Backspace clears it.

Next step Make a natural disasters word searchPrint a grid that hides its name

How it works

This severe weather color by number set opens on a Tornado: a black funnel beside a red barn. Seven more sheets follow, six for other kinds of severe weather and one for the flags that warn of a hurricane.

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Wind, thunderstorms and water

Two sheets show wind storms: the Tornado and the Hurricane seen from above. Two come from thunderstorms: Lightning strike and Hailstones. Three are about water: too much in the Flooded street, frozen in the Snowdrift in a blizzard and missing in the Cracked ground in a drought. In the picture list, each description carries one fact from the National Weather Service.

The flags that mean a hurricane warning

The Hurricane warning flags sheet shows a real signal. Two red flags with black centers, one above the other, are the daytime signal for a hurricane warning at United States coastal stations that display flags. One such flag alone means a storm warning.

  • Six of the eight easy keys have black, 67 squares of it on the Tornado: check the black crayons first.
  • Hail and snow print as empty squares: check Put 0 in the white squares in More options to number them.
  • Lightning strike colors all 144 squares; Snowdrift in a blizzard is the quickest at 83.

Questions and answers

Are these severe weather color by number worksheets with questions to answer?

No. They are plain picture sheets: every square that gets a color already holds its number, and the key gives each number a crayon. Nothing has to be solved first, so a sheet works as a quiet task beside the lesson.

Which severe weather color by number sheet is the easiest?

By crayons, Hurricane seen from above: 2, blue for the ocean and green for the land, with the spiral of cloud left white. Hailstones and Snowdrift in a blizzard need 3 each, and Flooded street the most, 5.

Do the sheets say what to do in a tornado or a hurricane?

No. They are for coloring, and the picture list gives one fact about each kind of weather, not safety steps. For what to do before and during a storm, use the safety pages of the National Weather Service at weather.gov.

Is there a weather color by number without storms?

Yes. The weather set has a sunny day, a partly cloudy sky, a rain cloud, a snow cloud, a thermometer and a weather vane. This page keeps to the storms, a flood and a drought.

All 8 pictures

Wind storms 3

  • Hurricane seen from above A spiral of cloud left white on a blue ocean, with a blue eye at its center and green land in one corner. On the detailed grid the bands of cloud have light blue edges, a gray ring circles the eye and the land has a yellow beach and light green fields. A tropical storm in the Atlantic or the eastern Pacific is called a hurricane once its winds reach 74 miles an hour, and the eye is its fairly calm center. Easy: 2 colors, 86 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 356 squares to color.
  • Hurricane warning flags Two red flags, each with a black center, flying one above the other on a brown pole over a blue sea; the sky is left white. On the detailed grid the sky is light blue with white clouds, the pole is gray with a black cap and stands on a brown dock, and the sea has white wave crests. Some coastal stations in the United States fly this pair of flags by day as the signal for a hurricane warning. Easy: 4 colors, 93 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 542 squares to color.
  • Tornado A black funnel dropping from a black storm cloud to green ground, beside a red barn with a brown roof, with brown debris in the air; the sky is left white. On the detailed grid the funnel is gray with black bands, the cloud has a gray underside, the barn has a white door and the grass has light green flecks. A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that reaches the ground. Easy: 4 colors, 88 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 380 squares to color.
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Thunderstorms 2

  • Hailstones Hailstones left white, falling from a black storm cloud through a blue sky and lying on green grass. On the detailed grid the cloud is gray with a black underside, the sky is light blue, each stone has a gray shadow and the grass has light green tufts. Hail is pellets or balls of ice that fall from the kind of cloud that makes thunderstorms. Easy: 3 colors, 112 squares to color. Detailed: 5 colors, 503 squares to color.
  • Lightning strike A yellow lightning bolt zigzagging from a black storm cloud to green ground, in a purple sky. On the detailed grid the cloud is gray with a black underside, the bolt has an orange edge and a thin side branch, a black house with a lit yellow window stands at the left and the grass has light green flecks. Lightning is an electrical discharge made by a thunderstorm, and thunder is the sound it causes. Easy: 4 colors, 144 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 576 squares to color.

Flood, snow and drought 3

  • Cracked ground in a drought A yellow sun with orange rays over dry brown ground split by black cracks, beside a bare black tree; the sky is left white. On the detailed grid the tree is brown, the plates of dry ground have orange highlights, and a wilted green plant with yellow leaves and a few gray stones sit on the ground. A drought is a shortage of moisture that harms people, animals or plants over a large area. Easy: 4 colors, 107 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 406 squares to color.
  • Flooded street A red house with a brown roof and a yellow window, standing in blue floodwater that reaches up its black door, beside a yellow road sign on a black post; the sky is left white. On the detailed grid a gray rain cloud drops blue rain, the sign has a black border and a gray post, and light blue ripples cross the water. A flood is a high flow or overflow of water that causes or threatens damage. Easy: 5 colors, 89 squares to color. Detailed: 7 colors, 444 squares to color.
  • Snowdrift in a blizzard A brown cabin with a lit yellow window; its roof and the drift piled against its wall are left white, brown fence posts poke out of the snow and white flakes blow across a blue sky. On the detailed grid the cabin has black log lines and a chimney with gray smoke, gray streaks show the wind and light blue shadows mark the roof and the drift. In a blizzard, winds of 35 miles an hour or more and falling or blowing snow cut how far you can see to under a quarter mile for at least 3 hours. Easy: 3 colors, 83 squares to color. Detailed: 6 colors, 350 squares to color.

How this list was compiled: Our own pixel pictures, drawn square by square for this site on 12 by 12 and 24 by 24 grids in October 2026. Nothing is traced, scanned or copied from clip art, and no picture shows a brand, a logo or a character from a film, show, book or game. The fact that ends each description was checked in October 2026 against the glossary and the coastal warning signals published by the United States National Weather Service. The pictures are for coloring and give no storm safety instructions. The color and square counts were counted from the finished grids. Licence: own work

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