One way warm air rises to form clouds is by absorbing heat from this.
What is the ground.
100
This is the name of a thunderstorm cloud.
What is a cumulonimbus cloud or thunderhead.
100
This is the common name of a tonado cloud.
What is a funnel cloud.
100
Hurricanes form over this.
What is warm ocean waters.
100
The most violent-weather event is this.
What is a thunderstorm.
200
When these two fronts collide, a storm likely forms.
What are a cold front and a warm front.
200
A severe thunderstorm is also called this.
What is a supercell thunderstorm.
200
A tornado travels on average this many miles per hour. (guess within 10 miles/hour)
What is 30 mph.
200
Hurricanes form during these two seasons mostly.
What are the summer and fall.
200
The most dangerous characteristic of a thunderstorm is this.
What is lightning.
300
When a storm produces intense rainfall ina brief amount of time, it creates this new severe condition.
What is flash flooding.
300
A lightning bolt is a flow of electrical charges seeking opposite or same charges in the clouds or ground?
What is opposite.
300
Tornadoes produce a very powerful _____ that sucks almost everything, in its path that isn't secusrely fastened to the ground, up.
What is an updraft.
300
Hurricanes can be as wide at this many hundred miles.
What is 600 miles.
300
A row of severe storms forms this which is where severe weather can form.
A squall line.
400
A lightning bolt passes through a narrow channel of air, which is flash heated to a temperature this many times greater than the sun.
What is five times greater.
400
This is how thunderstorms got their name.
What is the sound that's created during one when lightning heats the air and expands violently creating the sound of thunder.
400
This explains the reason for the dark brown or green color of tornado clouds on the ground.
What is they suck up dirt, debris, and grass from ground and these give the cloud its color.
400
The biggest danger for low-lying communities is a wall of water which is forced toward land by the strength of the hurricane winds.
What is a storm surge.
400
About what percentage of thunderstorms are of the severe variety?
What is 10%.
500
The explosive heat caused by lightning makes the air around the bolt expand violently creating this.
What is thunder.
500
Describe the differences between an ordinary storm and a severe storm.
What are ordinary storms are 30-60 minutes long and provide relief from the heat. Severe storms are huge rotating storms that can lst several hours, produce extreme wind and heavy rain.
500
The tornadoes that occur in Tornado Alley in the United States are formed when cold, dry air from Canada meets warm, wet air from this part of the world.
What is the Gulf of Mexico.
500
Name the difference between a hurricane and blizzard in where they can cause damage.
A hurricane will cause damage just on the coastal areas but a blizzard will damage both inland areas as well as coastal areas.
500
Tornadoes can strike almost anywhere in the world, but about 75% of them occur here.