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Mesoscale
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A tornado’s favorite dessert.
Funnel Cake
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The name of the alert issued by the NWS when there is a tornado on the ground.
Tornado Warning
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The deadliest tornado in United States history.
1925 Tri-State Tornado
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The name of the largest tornado ever recorded.
El Reno (2013)
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Classic name that describes the flat, spreading top of a supercell.
Anvil
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A tornado's favorite dance move.
The twist
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The place you should go in the event of a tornado warning.
basement/cellar or the innermost room, or bathroom
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The deadliest tornado outbreak in United States history?
2011 Super outbreak
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The Enhanced Fujita scale is a scale that rates tornado intensity based on
Damage and estimated wind speeds
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The 'main ingredient' that a tornado is comprised of.
A rotating updraft
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Why did the tornado take a break?
It was out of wind!
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A dangerous place some drivers stop during a tornado warning to take shelter.
Overpass.
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When was the first picture of a tornado taken and by whom took it?
A.A Adams - April 26th 1884
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Tornadoes that can move onshore and cause damage to coastal areas.
Waterspouts
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Often indicating rotation within a storm, what is the name of the radar signature picture below.
Velocity couplet
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Why can you never trust a tornado?
They always TWIST everything you say
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These items are what you should have in the event of a tornado warning.
Phone, Shoes, Helmet, Flashlight, Whistle, NOAA Weather Radio
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The First Successful Tornado Forecast that broke a half-century ban on forecasting tornadoes.
Tinker Air Force Base 1948 - Fawbush and Miller
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A flesh-eating fungus appeared in the aftermath of this tornado.
2011 Joplin, Missouri
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What presents itself as a horseshoe -shaped clear slot that can be seen wrapping ⅔ or more of the way around a developing tornado cyclone?
Rear-flank downdraft
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Why did the meteorologist bring a pair of sunglasses?
in case he breaks the CAP!
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These types of buildings are considered some of the most dangerous places to be during a tornado.
Manufactured and mobile homes
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On June 3, 1980, this town was struck by seven tornadoes, including three anti-cyclonic ones, creating a debris pile on the west side of town named ‘Tornado Hill’
Grand Island, Nebraska
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This phenomenon gave a certain tornado enough strength to upheave underground storm shelters out of the ground.
Terrain-enhanced, localized intensification, and the 2011 EF-5 Rainsville Tornado
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Burgess et al (1977) and Lemon and Doswell (1979) - stated that there are these 3 stages in tornadogenesis.
1.organizing
2.mature
3.collapse