vocab
What can develop into self-sustaining, extremely powerful storms?
What are supercells?
Extremely powerful storms are called:
When the wind energy from a thunderstorm becomes concentrated in one area, the winds can be exceptionally strong, with speeds more than:
What is 160 km/h?
This falls from the sky during a hail storm
What is Balls of ice?
True or false do tornadoes always contact the ground?
What is true?
Violent downdrafts that are concentrated in a local area
what are downbursts?
The average amount of minutes that it takes to reach the top of a cloud.
True or false, big macrobursts are more powerful than small macrobursts.
What is false?
True or false Hail can break windows and damage houses and cars.
What is true?
This is what a tornado is called when it does not touch the ground.
What is a Funnel cloud?
A violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground.
What is a Tornado?
Is it common for supercells to produce long-lasting tornadoes?
What is yes?
Violent downdrafts that are concentrated in a small area are called:
What is downdrafts?
Hail is most common during what season.
What is the spring growing season?
Supercells are what type of thunderstorm?
What is the most severe type of thunderstorm?
This ranks tornadoes according to their destructiveness and estimated wind speed, it is used to classify tornadoes.
What is the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Damage Scale?
There are how many thunderstorms in the united states each year?
what is 100,000?
Macrobursts can:
What is Cause a path of destruction up to 5 km wide?
Hail forms in this type of cloud.
What is cumulonimbus?
The air in tornadoes are made visible by:
What is Dust and debris drawn into the swirling column?
What is "tornado Alley"?
What percent of storms are considered severe?
What is 10%?
How fast can macrobursts be when confined to an area less than 4 km?
What is 250 km/h?
Clouds have to be this temperature in order to form hail.
What is 32 degrees or below freezing?
A tornado is formed by what:
What is when wind, speed, and direction change suddenly?