Mesoscale
Synoptic
Dynamic
Soundings
Models/Radar
100
What the letters in CAPE stand for.
What is Convective Available Potential Energy?
100
Name this air mass.
What is Maritime Tropical (mT)?
100
Pv=MRT
What is the Equation of State (Ideal Gas Law)?
100
What the green line represents in a sounding.
What is Dew Point Temperature?
100
What GFS stands for.
What is Global Forecast System?
200
The most tornadoes happen during this month.
What is May?
200
Cold fronts tend to move ____ (faster or slower) than warm fronts.
What is Faster?
200
The 'ability to do work' defines this term.
What is Energy?
200
The wind speed at 700mb.
What is 20 knots?
200
The name for this radar signature associated with tornadoes.
What is a Hook Echo?
300
The three ingredients for a thunderstorm.
What are Moisture, Instability, and Lift?
300
The two main forces that contribute to geostrophic wind balance.
What is Pressure Gradient Force and Coriolis Force?
300
This kind of heating allows energy from an external force.
What is Diabatic Heating?
300
The kind of precipitation expected given this sounding.
What is Snow?
300
The given radar image is associated with this common synoptic-scale system.
What is a Mid-Latitude Cyclone?
400
The charge distribution in a thunderstorm.
What is Positive, Negative, Positive?
400
The name for the region in purple within the jet stream.
What is a Jet Streak?
400
Warm air has ____ (greater or less) capacity for water vapor than does cold air.
What is Greater?
400
The name for the graph used to illustrate wind speed and direction with height.
What is a Hodograph?
400
What ECMWF stands for.
What is the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts?
500
Winds are doing this with height in a severe thunderstorm environment.
What is Veering?
500
The level in the atmosphere that is considered "non-divergent."
What is 500mb?
500
These countries tend to use this thermodynamic diagram over the skew-T/log-P diagram.
What is a Tephigram?
500
The year that the Skew-T/Log-P diagram was derived.
What is 1947?
500
The name of this tropical system from September 2018.
What is Tropical Storm Gordon?