ACRONYMS
PWAT
What is Precipitable Water?
A rotating column of air, decending from a cloud or storm base.
What is a tornado?
The rotating cloud under the mesocyclone
What is a wall cloud?
A discharge of electricity from the clouds or ground.
What is lightning?
The amount of EF5 tornadoes in 2011.
How many was 6?
CAPE
What is Convective Available Potential Energy?
A long line of storms with severe winds that ravels over 240 miles
A long cloud stretching from the forward flank into the updraft.
What is an inflow tail?
Ice that gets cycled through an updraft and fall to the earth.
What is Hail?
The year Moore was hit with it's first F5.
When is 1999?
A surface-based closed low with now frontal boundaries that usually takes place over the water.
What is a Hurricane/Tropical Storm?
The clouds typically on the edge of a squall line.
What is a shelf cloud?
A bright flash of light that occurs from electrical interferences, caused by high winds.
What is a power flash?
The year the first EF5 was rated.
When is 2007?
HRRR
What is the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh?
A storm that drops rain through warm air and suddenly hits cool air above the surface.
What is an ice storm/sleet storm/glaze storm?
The area of clearing behind the mesocyclone
What is the clear slot?
Dust being kicked up by storm outflow that bigis to spin.
What is a gustnado?
The day the Henryville IN tornado happened.
When was March 2, 2012?
ESP
What is Enhanced Stretching Potential?
A satorm with rapid decent of cold air and heavy rain, that spreads out at the surface.
What is a Microburst/Downburst?
The area of heavy precipitation and rain often ahead of and unaccosiated with the main tornadic part of the storm.
What is the FFD/Forward Flank Downdraft?
The cold air that wraps around the back of the meso.
What is the RFD/Rear Flank Downdraft?
These are the top four years ranked by their largest outbreaks in US history.