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100
A storm watch is issued when conditions may exist for the formation of a severe thunderstorm.
What is a severe thunderstorm watch?
100
Gray clouds that cover the lower part of the sky; rain or snow falls from them
What are stratus clouds?
100
A boundary separating two air masses
What is a weather front?
100
Most common type of storm
What is a thunderstorm?
100
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a house
What is the basement or lowest level of house?
200
The process of water changing into an invisible gas called water vapor
What is evaporation?
200
White, puffy clouds that look like piles of cotton; they are known as fair-weather clouds
What are cumulus clouds?
200
Scientists who study weather
Who are meteorologists?
200
Spinning cloud with a funnel shape
What is a tornado?
200
Where you should go during a tornado if you are in a school or public building
What is the lowest level, to the center of the building?
300
An index that combines the air temperature and relative humidity in an attempt to determine the perceived temperature.
What is the heat index?
300
Thin, feathery clouds that appear high in the sky; they are a sign that rain or snow is on the way
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Instrument that shows temperature
What is a thermometer?
300
Large, powerful storm that occurs over large bodies of water
What is a hurricane?
300
April through June
What are the months that the most tornadoes occur?
400
Precipitation that falls to the ground in the form of liquid droplets
What is rain?
400
Cloud that forms at the earth’s surface
What is fog?
400
Measures wind speed
What is an anemometer?
400
Water overflow that is caused by a large amount of rainfall
What is a flood?
400
What you should do if you’re in a car during a tornado
What is pull over and get out of the vehicle?
500
A rotating column of air with high wind speeds that makes contact with the ground.
What is a tornado?
500
Tall, dark clouds that mean thunderstorms with heavy rain and strong winds
What are cumulonimbus clouds?
500
A narrow band of strong winds in the upper atomosphere
What is the Jet Stream?
500
Another name for hail less than the size of quarter
What is pocket change hail?
500
Scale used rate the damage and speed of tornadoes
What is the Enhanced Fujita scale (EF-scale)?
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