Incident Command
What ICS position is a contact point for all assistance arriving at the scene?
Who is Liaison
Of all Presidentially declared disasters, over __% are weather-related.
What is 95%
A tsunami can be caused by a landslide, volcanic eruption and
What is an earthquake
Nearly half of the 90+ deaths that flash floods cause every year are due to people attempting to
What is drive through the flood waters
The constant motion of descending cooler air and ascending warmer as moisture is carried through the atmosphere is called what?
What is convection
Who is responsible for all communications and information updates?
Who is the Public Information Officer
People are at the most risk during tornados when they are
What is when in mobile homes and outdoors
Space weather is a consequence of the behavior of the Sun interacting with the Earth’s
What is the magnetic field
In urban areas name one of 2 things that created flash flooding due to less surface to absorb water
What is water runoff and housing development
This type of thunderstorm last 10 - 30 minutes and are broken up by strong downdrafts
What is a single-cell thunderstorm
This person can immediately stop any unsafe acr.
Who is the safety Officer
What is the name of the scale used to classify tornadoes by windspeed?
What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale
Solar storms that result in geomagnetic field disturbances may disrupt communications, degrade high-tech navigation systems like GPS and damage what?
What is power systems
A thunderstorm is a local storm produced by what type of cloud?
What is a cumulonimbus cloud
This type is a narrow band of active thunderstorms can extend up to 500 miles long and 10 - 20 miles wide.
What is a squall line
This title position is responsible for all tactical activities.
Who is the Operations Section Chief.
There are __ times more tornadoes in the United States than any other nation. In them, people are hurt and/or killed from flying debris
What is 10 times more.
With Hazardous Weather training who ensures their jurisdiction suffers less of an impact from severe weather by making sound decisions?
Who is the Local Emergency Manager
The three basic factors that contribute to thunderstorm development are moisture, instability and
What is lift?
These thunderstorm winds occur when cool, dense air flows out of the base of a thunderstorm. It spreads along the ground ahead of the actual thunderstorm cell
What is a gust front
This position tracks all overtime, purchases supplies and tracks injuries.
Who is Finance/Admin
What country has more severe weather than any other in the world?
What is the US
Effective hazardous weather and flooding preparedness requires what type of approach to be successful
What is a team approach?
This event is a temporary rise in water level caused by storm winds blowing across miles of open water, which drags water toward the shore. The waves can reach heights well over 20 feet, can travel several miles inland and can span hundreds of miles of coastline.
What is a storm surge
This thunderstorm precipitation is formed when strong updrafts carry water droplets to a height where they freeze. They become too heavy and fall to the ground as what?
What is hail