Weather Alerts
Tornadoes
Hurricanes
Blizzards
Other Weather Phenomenon
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The alert used for an impending weather situation...

What is a warning?

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A tornado is produced from...

What is a thunderstorm?

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A hurricane is considered this type of storm...

What is a tropical storm?

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A blizzard creates this type of precipitation...

What is snow?

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A tornado that is over water is known as...

What is a waterspout?

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This U.S. state has issued the most weather alerts...

What is Oklahoma?

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Most tornadoes occur in an area of the U.S. known as...

What is Tornado Alley?

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The wall that forms around the center of a hurricane...

What is an eye wall?

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Blizzards usually occur in this region of the U.S...

What is the Great Plains region?

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In July of 1936, a heat wave swept over the Great Plains and became known as...

What is the Dust Bowl?

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What does NOAA stand for?

What is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration?

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The scale used for measuring tornadoes...

What is the Enhanced Fujita Scale?

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A hurricane can also be called a tropical cyclone or a...

What is a typhoon?

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Most blizzards occur between these three months...

What are December, January, and February?

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In 2012, part of India was rained on by what color of rain...

What is red rain?
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What year was the National Weather Service founded?

What is 1870?

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The deadliest tornado in U.S. history...

What is the Tri-State tornado?

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The costliest hurricane in U.S. history...

What is Hurricane Katrina?

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In 1959, a snowstorm in blizzard California dropped the most amount of snow ever...

(How many inches/feet within 10 in or 1 ft)

189 in. or 15.75 ft

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A flood in Tiffin, OH, that killed 19 people took place in what year...

What was 1913?

500

The least used weather alert...

What is a volcanic ashfall advisory?

500

A tornado that touched down in Moore, OK, recorded the fastest wind speeds ever on Earth...

What is 302 mph?

500

In 1979, Typhoon Tip was measured to be the largest storm on Earth at _____ miles...

(Answer within 50 miles)

What is 1350 miles?

500

The Iran blizzard of 1972 became the deadliest blizzard in history by causing this many casualties...

(Within 500)

What is 4,000 casualties?

500

The largest hail ever recorded was __ inches in circumference...

(Within 3 inches)

What is 18.62 inches?