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Any aspect of a meteorological phenomena that has a risk of causing damage to property or life.
Severe Weather
When cold dense air sinks to the bottom of the thunderstorm and is ‘dragged’ out by precipitation.
Downdraft
The charge that forms at the base of a thunderstorm that could eventually lead to negative lightning if that charge interacts with the opposite ground charge?
Negative
A common weather pattern that is conducive for heat waves.
When ridge of high pressure sits over an area for an extended period of time.,During the summer when weather patterns are slower to shift.,During dry conditions with very little cloud coverage allowing sunshine to dominate.
Choose TWO main categories of severe weather.
General and Local
The winds in a downburst are similar too this.
Tornado
The charge that forms at the top of a thunderstorm that could eventually lead to rare lightning.
Positive
Extended periods of unusually hot weather relative to the normal temperature of an area for a given season.
Heat Wave
This issued by the national Storm Prediction Center (SPC) in Norman, OK, gives advance notice that conditions are favorable for dangerous weather.
Watch
When storms or rain showers move over the same spot over and over again.
Training
Wildfires can be sparked by this via thunderstorms.
Lightning
A symptom of heat stroke.
body no longer able to regulate its core temperature,dry hot skin with no sweating,mental confusion,losing consciousness,seizures
Considered a main causes of severe weather phenomena such as hurricanes, thunderstorms, lightning, tornadoes, and hail?
low pressure systems,cumulonimbus clouds,clashes of air masses,topography and geography
The first indication visually in a storm that a tornado may form.
Wall Cloud
An increase in solar radiation coupled with low moisture and winds causes this meteorological phenomenon.
Extreme Heat
Where positive lightning originates from.
The top of a thunderstorm.
Precipitation that forms when strong updrafts within a thunderstorm carry rain droplets into cold portions of the atmosphere.
Hail
An electrostatic discharge that builds up between positive and negative charges that exist in the atmosphere and is produced in all thunderstorms.
Lightning
_____ and drought can have major and lasting impacts on humans, crops and livestock.
Heat
The last visual indicator that a storm is producing a tornado.
The tornado itself.