Chapter 13 Severe Weather

What is the characteristic of the eye of the hurricane?

What ultimately leads to a thunderstorm dissipation?

Which is not a condition that contributes to the formation of hail?

Hurricane with wind speed of 225km/h and sea level change of 5.5 m can cause what damage?

___ are often associated with very severe thunderstorms called supercells?

When a storm over an ocean has wind speeds of 75km/h what can it be classified as?

If winds in the center reach 120 km/h it is considered a

Tornadoes form in the most in the ___ part of the U.S?

How fast must the wind of a tornado be traveling to be classified as a F4 tornado?

A ___ thunderstorm forms because of unequal heating of Earth's surface within one air mass?

What stage of a thunderstorm would an equal amounts of updrafts and downdrafts exist?

What stage of a thunderstorm is the air 32 degrees F and 5-8 km in diameter?

The phenomenon in which the effects of cold air are worsened by wind is the _____.

Shift in wind patterns that allow high pressure systems to persist for a long period of time.

On the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale what is the most extreme tropical cyclone

If a storm lasts for 21 hours with rainfall rate of 1.5 cm/h would the area become flooded?

Very severe thunderstorms can form a ___ has a large supply of warm air to lift and condense.

A extended period of well-below normal rainfall is a ____.

Friction between updrafts and downdrafts within cumulonibus cloud creates ______.

The hurricane is moving in a counterclockwise direction. What can be inferred about the storm?

Cumulonimbus clouds associated with thunderstorms form from cumulus clouds and ______.

At which point would the strongest winds and densest clouds of the hurricane be located?

Which is not a condition that must exist in order to produce a thunderstorm?

A mound of water driven toward coastal areas by hurricane winds is called a ____.

All tropical cyclones thrive on the energy in _____.

The rising, moist updrafts and falling, cool downdrafts from convection cells produces ______.

A tornado lasts 9 minutes and is 2 km wide with wind speeds of 99km/h. What is its intensity?

Tornado lasted for 70 min and was 84 km wide. What would the speed be to reach F4 status?