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100

The weather phenomena that happens at the same time as lightning.

What is thunder

100

The type of thunderstorm necessary to produce hail.

What is a supercell?

100

What is Mrs. Geneva's favorite movie of all time?

What is Twister

100

Name of the scale meteorologist use to measure the destructive force of tornadoes.

What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?

100

Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house

What is an interior room?

200

Lightning is this many miles away if you count to 10.

2 miles

200

An area of the storm that rain must pass through repeatedly in order to produce hail.

What is a freezing line?

200

The technical term for people who study weather.

Who are meteorologists?

200

A type of tornado that forms from ground-level winds instead of a supercell storm.

What is a landspout?

200

The weather alert given when tornadoes are possible.

What is a tornado watch

300
This kind of lightning is rarely seen and appears high above the storm in the atmosphere

What is a Red Sprite?

300
The size hail must be in order to be considered "severe."

What is one inch

300

The widest tornado ever record, stretching 2.6 miles wide.

What is the 2013 El Reno Tornado?

300

Nickname for a large, powerful tornado with multiple vortices that seem to circle around each other.

What is a Dead Man Walking?

300

The weather alert given when a tornado is likely to touch down

What is a tornado warning/siren?

400

A rare lightning that may appear after a bolt hits the ground

What is Ball lightning?

400

The basic recipe for a Supercell to form

What is hot, moist air and cold, dry air?

400

The name of the famous armored car the new Twisters movie was based off of?

What is the Dominator?

400

The first sign a tornado is forming.

What is a funnel?

400

The name of the "new" tornado alley which Louisianna is part of.

What is Dixie Alley

500
The specific charge of Lightning bolt that pulses or flickers.

What is negative lightning 

500

The name of moving air that repeatedly pushes rain and hail higher into the storm.

What are updrafts?

500

The famous meteorologist who drives his armored car into tornadoes.

Who is Reed Timmer?

500

The motion of the clouds when multiple wind patterns are circulating within a storm. 

What is rotation?

500

When a supercell produces more than one tornado and smaller ones rotate around a larger one.

What are multiple vortecies? 

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