Basics
This is the minimum wind speed for a storm to be classified as a hurricane.
What is 74 mph?
Hurricanes form over this type of water.
Answer: What is warm ocean water?
The Coriolis Effect is caused by this.
What is Earth’s rotation?
This is the dangerous rise of water pushed onto land by a hurricane.
What is storm surge?
The calm center of a hurricane is called this.
What is the eye?
Hurricanes are also called this in the Pacific Ocean.
What are typhoons?
This provides the energy that fuels hurricanes.
What is heat from warm water?
In the Northern Hemisphere, storms spin in this direction.
What is counterclockwise?
This scale measures hurricane strength from 1–5.
What is the Saffir-Simpson Scale?
Bands of heavy rain and wind that spiral outward are called this.
What are rainbands?
This is the official name for a rotating storm system before it becomes a hurricane
What is a tropical storm?
Hurricanes weaken when they move over this.
What is land or cold water?
The Coriolis Effect is weakest at this location.
What is the equator?
This type of flooding is caused by heavy rainfall from hurricanes.
What is inland flooding?
The boundary where the storm meets land is called this.
What is landfall?
This ocean basin produces the most hurricanes affecting the U.S.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Hurricanes need ocean water at least this temperature to form.
What is about 80°F (27°C)?
The Coriolis Effect causes storms to curve in this general direction in the U.S.
What is to the right (or eastward)
This is the strongest part of a hurricane outside the eye.
What is the eyewall?
A storm that rotates but lacks organization is called this.
What is a tropical disturbance?
This term describes the weakening of a hurricane after landfall.
What is dissipation?
List TWO conditions needed for hurricane formation.
: What are warm water, low wind shear, moisture, and Coriolis Effect? (any two)
Why don’t hurricanes form directly on the equator?
What is there is no Coriolis Effect there?
This combination of hazards makes hurricanes especially dangerous.
What are wind, flooding, and storm surge?
The process of a storm gaining strength is called this.
What is intensification?