Tornadoes

Winter Weather
Hurricanes
Severe Weather
Clouds
100

Enderlin EF rating

What is EF-5?

100

Iowa's Coldest Temperature on Record

What is -47 degrees Fahrenheit?

100

People who fly into hurricanes for data

Who are the Hurricane Hunters?

100

When Thunder Roars, _______

What is Head Indoors?

100

Fair weather cloud

What is cumulus cloud?
200

Winterset EF rating

What is EF-4?

200

Approximate amount of blizzards in Iowa total between 1996-2020

What is over 1,000?

200

Most powerful part of a hurricane

What is the Eye Wall?

200

How far lightning is from you

What is count the seconds between seeing the flash and hearing the thunder, then divide the number by 5 to get the approximate distance in miles?
200

High Wispy Cloud

What is Cirrus cloud?

300

The place in the tornado where the supercell forms

What is the wall cloud?

300

Blizzard warning conditions

What is 35 mile per hour winds or greater and significant falling or blowing snow falling with visibilities falling to a quarter of a mile or less for more than 3 hours?

300

types and wind speeds of hurricanes

What are:

Category 1- 74-95 mph

Category 2- 96-110 mph

Category 3- 111-129 mph

Category 4- 130-156 mph

Category 5- 157 mph or greater ?

300

Watch vs. Warning

What is 

Watch is where conditions are favorable

Warning is where conditions are present ?

300

Rain Cloud

What is Cumulonimbus cloud?

400

Tornadoes in the midwest by April of 2025

What is over 470?

400

Ratio of snow to rain equivalent

What is 8:1?

400
Most common state in the US for hurricanes

What is Florida?

400

Hail vs. Snow

What is the formation, season, structure?

Hail is harder and Snow is softer


400

Overcast sky cloud

What is Stratus Cloud?

500

Top 3 states with the most tornadoes

What are Texas, Illinois, and Missouri

500

Thundersnow

What is lightning and thunder during a winter snowstorm with intense snow rates, often cold air aloft, moist air near the surface, unstable air overall, and a strong upward convection with electrical charges?

500
Temperature in water needed for hurricane development

What is greater than 26 degrees Celsius or 79 degrees Fahrenheit?

500

Freezing Rain vs. Sleet

What is rain that freezes on contact (freezing rain) and ice pellets that refreeze when hitting the ground (sleet)?

500

Continuous precipitation cloud

What is nimbostratus cloud?

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