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Where are you going?
100
The act of removing a Hurricane off of the naming list happens because of this.
What is devastation brought by the hurricane?
100
The center of circulation of a tropical system, a deceptively calm area.
What is the eye?
100
One of the most underrated effects of a hurricane, a hurricane can drop up to several feet.
What is rain?
100
A tropical system starts out as this.
What is Tropical Wave?
100
Storms form in this body of warm water, who's sea surface temperatures are between 85-90 degrees Fahrenheit.
What is the Gulf of Mexico?
200
Before 1979, Hurricanes were only given names of this gender.
What is female?
200
One of the three conditions that a tropical system needs to form.
What is spin? What is warm water? What is no shearing?
200
The most deadly effect of a hurricane, accounting for over 90 percent of the deaths associated with hurricanes.
What is storm surge?
200
Just before becoming a "Hurricane," a tropical system is called this, which is also where the system gains a name.
What is Tropical Storm?
200
Storms that form in the Gulf, typically follow a path that leads them to effect this part of the United States.
What is the Southeast?
300
This organization started giving Hurricanes names in 1953.
What is the National Weather Service?
300
An area of dense clouds and thunderstorms located in the heart of a hurricane
What is the central dense overcast?
300
Normally found in the midwest, these twisting storms are produced by hurricanes when they make landfall.
What are tornadoes?
300
A hurricane with winds of 125 mph would be categorized as this.
What is category 3?
300
This area, east of the Caribbean, is where storms typically form in the peak months of August and September.
What is the Cape Verde Islands?
400
The number of lists of names that are rotated.
What is 6?
400
This area of a hurricane has the highest speed winds of the storm, sometimes up to 200 mph.
What is the eyewall?
400
The Saffir-Simpson scale uses this effect of a hurricane to categorize the storm.
What is wind?
400
Hurricane Andrew, which devastated the South Florida coast in 1992, was this category when it made landfall.
What is category 4?
400
This area of the United States is normally affected by storms that form in the Cape Verde Islands.
What is the eastern seaboard?
500
The year that the National Weather Service began naming hurricanes.
What is 1953?
500
One of the most important parts of the hurricane, this part of the system allows for air to escape from the storm, allowing energy to transfer.
What is the outflow?
500
This storm brought over 30 feet of storm surge when it made landfall, devastating an entire coastline.
What is Katrina?
500
The name of the scale used to categorize hurricanes.
What is Saffir-Simpson?
500
This hurricane formed in the western Caribbean, but followed an atypical path to hit South Florida.
What is Wilma?