Large raindrops (> 1mm) will usually have ZDR values greater than this value
What is 3?
100
Based on a 2012 verification study at the office, our Mixing Height forecasts typically are this compared with actual observations
What are too high?
100
The acronym ICS stands for this
What is Incident Command System?
100
According to 1000 AWOC student root cause analyses, this is the percent of missed warning events due to human factors and not due to lack of training or understanding of meteorology or procedures (+/- 5%)
What is 84% (any number between 75 and 90 will be accepted)
100
The year that MTV went on the air
What is 1981?
200
This VCP is recommended when strong sustained winds are expected, lots of range folding is occurring and/or the radar is having difficulty dealiasing velocity data
What is VCP 121?
200
This is the direction a mountain faces that has the highest average temperature, lowest average RH and highest rate of spread
What is south?
200
Name 3 ways to provide decision support without leaving the office
What are email briefings, live briefings, videocasts, facebook or twitter posst, phone calls, NWSChat posts or graphicasts
200
Of the questions what, when, where, why and how much that a briefing or product tries to answer, this one is least likely to effectively communicate the message and is strongly discouraged from use
What is "Why"?
200
The original artist who first sung "I Will Survive"
Who was Gloria Gaynor?
300
Correlation coefficient values below this value are typically non-meteorological and could be debris in certain situations
What is 0.80?
300
This is the most important part of the Spot Forecast
What is the discussion?
300
When reporting to a medium to large incident, the meteorologist usually checks into this location
What is the Incident Command Post (ICP)?
300
Based on FEMA IS-242, Effective Communication, the most critical component of communication that is highly active and requires hard work is this
What is listening?
300
This group penned and recorded the classic "I'm a Barbie Girl in a Barbie World"
What is Aqua?
400
To detect tornado debris, these 4 base data fields (2 traditional and 2 dual-polarization) are used
What are reflectivity, velocity, correlation coefficient and ZDR?
400
This is the most important part of the Spot Forecast request (STQ)
What are the remarks?
400
In addition to ICS 100, 200 and NIMS 700, this training is required to be able to work onsite at an EOC
What is ICS 300 and 800?
400
Based on FEMA IS-242, no matter if the communication is oral or written, ensuring the presentation does this with the audience is critical to gaining the desired response.
What is matches? (any synonym accepted)
400
This family member shot R&B superstar Marvin Gaye (only need the relation, father, mother, brother, uncle, etc...)
Who was his Father?
500
ZDR values around 1.0 within a heavy precipitation core are often signatures of this kind of hazardous weather event
What is large hail?
500
This is the difference in wind speed that can change the LAVDAS Dispersion Index by as much as 20 or 30 units on a sunny day
What is 1kt?
500
The length of time the NWS been providing decision support to customers
What is since the inception of the NWS (1870)?
500
In Steve's presentation on Effective Communication, Mehrabian claimed that this percentage of a message is conveyed verbally while the remainder is communicated by one's tone of voice and body language (+/- 5%)
What is 7% (any number between 5 and 15 will be accepted)
500
This artist is the only person to have their 2012 video receive over 1 billion views on YouTube