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Meteorological Observations
Severe Weather
Tropical Weather
General Meteorology
Bonus Questions
100
One tool that meteorologists use to interpret data
What is aContour Map
100
The type of cloud that produces tornadoes.
What is a Cumulonimbus cloud.
100
What tropical entities are called around the world.
  • Atlantic: Hurricanes
  • Western Pacific: Typhoons
  • Indian Ocean: Cyclones
100
Lines connecting areas of equal atmospheric pressure.
What is an isobar.
100
Number of National Weather Service offices nation-wide.
What is 123
200
Measures wind speed.
What is an anemometer.
200
The layer of air separating thunderstorm outflow from surrounding air.
What is an Outflow Boundary.
200
The costliest hurricane to hit the U.S.
What is Hurricane Katrina.
200
What effect does El Nino have on hurricanes forming in the Atlantic?
Hurricane activity tends to decrease.
200
What does the word RADAR mean?
What is RAdio Detection And Ranging.
300
Measures humidity.
What is a Hygrometer
300
The difference between a WATCH and a WARNING
A WATCH is issued when conditions are favorable for the formation of severe weather.

A WARNING is issued when a signifigant weather event, such as a tornado, is imminent or occuring.
300
The part of a hurricane that most often spawns tornadoes.
What is the right-front quadrant, also known as the northeast edge.
300
Name three weather forecasting models.
What are HWRF, GFS, NAM, RUC, GFDL, LBAR .
300
The current Tropical Weather Expert at The Weather Channel.
Who is Dr. Richard Knabb
400
The tool that has contributed the most to modern NWS forecasting
What is a computer
400
Factors that make a storm Severe.
    What are:
  • Tornadoes...Waterspouts...Funnel Clouds
  • Hail of any size
  • Damaging Winds 50 knots/58 MPH or greater
  • Flooding Rains 2" per hour or 4" per day
  • Damage that is directly weather related
400
The last time Tampa had a hurricane make direct landfall.
What is 1921
400
The direction a tropical cyclone rotates in the Southern Hemisphere.
What is clockwise
400
What ISET stands for:
What is Interdisciplinary Scientific Environmental Technology .
500
One of the tools that the Hurricane Hunters use to gather data in tropical systems.
What are Dropsondes
500
What CAPE stands for.
What is Convective Available Potential Energy.
500
The Top 5 U.S. cities most at risk if hit by a major (Category 3 or higher) hurricane.
What are New Orleans, Tampa, New York City, Atlantic City, and Savannah.
500
The definition of a "Meteorological Bomb".
The term used to describe an area of low pressure in which the barometric pressure has dropped at least 24mb in the past 24 hours.
500
The four hurricanes to make landfall in Florida in 2004.
What are Charley, Frances, Jeanne, and Ivan.