Formation & Alerts
Hurricane season in the Northern Atlantic.
What is June-November?
Max sustained winds for a tropical depression.
What is less than or equal to 33KTS?
TCCOR I
What are destructive winds within 12 hours?
Hurricane names are planned out six years in advance.
True
Storm Surge
What is the abnormal rise generated by a storm over and above the astronomical tide.
Name of a storm in the Western Pacific.
What is a typhoon?
Major hurricane categories.
What is a category 3-5?
Fleet Sortie Conditions.
What is Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie?
The left rear quadrant of a cyclone is the most dangerous area.
False.
Clockwise/Counterclockwise
Direction of rotation of the storm.
- Clockwise: Rotation in Southern Hemisphere
- Counterclockwise: Rotation in Northern Hemisphere
The 5 criteria each storm has to meet in order to develop.
What is
- Water temperature exceeding 80 degrees
- Low vertical wind shear
- Upper-level exhaust
- Coriolis Force
- Pre-existing disturbance
Hurricane category with extensive damage?
What is a category 3?
Destructive wind speed.
What is 50 knots or greater?
JTWC provides watches and warnings for the Atlantic and Pacific.
False
Eyewall
What is the ring of intense thunderstorms surrounding the eye, where the strongest winds and heaviest rain occur.
Information included in a Tropical Cyclone Forecast/Advisory.
What is
- Position
- Intensity
- Direction
- Movement Speed
Receives a name.
What is a tropical storm?
Tropical Weather Outlook graphic.
What is a discussion of significant areas of disturbed weather and their potential for development during the next 7 days.
Tornadoes are possible in the right front quadrant of the storm.
True
Hurricane Hunters
What is the Air Force Reserve squadron that investigates a disturbance?
What is 6 hours?
Category 5 wind speed in KTS.
What is 137 KTS?
Fleet sortie condition Bravo.
Fleet sortie condition Bravo.
The eyewall replacement cycle permanently weakens the storm.
False
Post-tropical
What is a low-pressure system that used to be a tropical cyclone?