Hail/Flooding
These types of floods occur rapidly, with little to no warning.
What are flash floods?
These are the two main types of downbursts.
What are wet and dry downbursts?
This is where you would find the calmest conditions in a hurricane.
What is the eye?
We use this scale to classify hurricanes.
What is the Saffir-Simpson scale?
The path a parcel takes across the lake.
What is the fetch?
Spiky parts of hailstones are called this
What are lobes?
This is the type of wind pattern you see at the surface associated with downbursts.
What is divergence/starburst?
This section of the hurricane experiences the strongest winds and the highest storm surge.
What is the front-right quadrant?
About 20% of lightning strikes are this type.
What is cloud-to-ground?
Visibility has to be below this distance to meet blizzard criteria.
What is 1/4 mile?
In order to form spiky parts, hail needs to undergo this type of growth.
What is wet growth?
What is a microburst?
This force goes to zero at the equator, making the equator a less than ideal place to form hurricanes
What is the Coriolis force?
This region is where Hadley Cells meet and produce large scale rising motion.
What is the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)?
The type of precipitation resulting from a shallow warm layer on top of a deep cold layer.
What is sleet or ice pellets?
This is the process of collecting supercooled liquid water on a frozen particle to grow.
What is riming?
These are the two main mechanisms in forming downbursts.
What are precipitation drag and evaporational cooling?
This is where you would find the coldest cloud top temperatures.
What is the eyewall?
In the eye, this force wins out and disrupts hydrostatic balance.
What is gravity?
We look for a 13 degrees Celsius temperature difference between these two levels when assessing lake-effect snow.
What are the lake water and the 850 mb level?
These are the two most common hail embryos
What are graupel and frozen drops?
This scientist was the one who "discovered" downbursts.
Who is Fujita?
This storm was the last hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. as a Category 5.
What is Hurricane Michael?
The world record hailstone fell in this city.
What is Vivian, SD?
This is the airmass classification for extremely cold air associated with a polar vortex.
What is continental arctic (cA)?