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100

Cumulus

100

Original name for the Air Force

Army Air Corps 

100

CH-47 Chinook

100

Two quadrants of upper-level divergence in a jet streak. 

Right-Rear and left-front

100

What does this Skew-T depict?

Frontal Inversion

200

Altocumulous 

200

Air Force birthday 

18 Sept 1947

200

UH-60 Blackhawk 

200

Hook echo

200

What feature brings moisture in the "Pineapple Express" regime?

Sub-Tropical Jet

300

Cirrus

300

Air attack in 1942 that struck Tokyo and the Japanese mainland for the first time

Doolittle raid

300

Army version of this drone. 

MQ-1C Grey Eagle

300

Native American name for adiabatic warming of downward moving wind. 

Chinook wind / Fohn Wind

300

What indices is used to predict maximum wind gusts in frontal thunderstorms or prefrontal squall lines?

T2

400

Precip that evaporates before it hits the ground

Virga

400

Antagonizing and rebellious general, regarded as the father of the US Air Force. Commanded all aircraft in France during WWI. 

Billy Mitchell 

400

DCH-8

400

METAR code for heavy rainfall, hail and lightning within the last 15 minutes. 

+TSRAGR

400

Diurnal mountain wind pattern that flows upslope in the daytime due to uneven heating of the mountainside. Not as strong as an anabatic wind.

Valley breeze

500

Lenticular

500

Former United States Air Force officer, flying ace, and record-setting test pilot. In 1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of sound in level flight.

Chuck Yeager 

500

Note the radar between wing and nose

RC-135 Rivet Joint

500

As opposed to the tracked line swirling damage patterns from a tornado, this cloud-born phenomena produces Starburst damage patterns from straight-line winds radiating from the point of impact. 

Microburst 

500

What weather threat are the following radar signatures associated with?

• Rapidly growing echoes.

 • Slow moving echoes. 

• Persistency (long lasting). 

• Train echoes (echoes that move repeatedly over the same area). 

• Hurricanes and tropical storms. 

• Line Echo Wave Patterns (LEWPs). 

• Converging echoes and lines.

Flash flooding

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