U.S. Tornadoes
This is a visible rotating column of air that does not touch the ground.
What is a funnel cloud?
Name 4 states in the traditional tornado alley.
A quick burst of heavy snow with gusty winds.
What is a snow squall?
This is put out when a tornado has been spotted or indicated by radar.
What is a tornado warning?
This Ohio city is known for what occurred on April 3, 1974 in what is known as the 1974 Super Outbreak
What is Xenia?
What is damage?
This city in Ohio had an F5 tornado in 1985.
What is Niles, Ohio.
This is the snowiest state in the U.S.
What is Alaska?
A highly organized thunderstorm with a rotating updraft.
What is a supercell?
This type of storm resulted in a path of destruction from Indiana to the Mid-Atlantic in June 2012. Ohio was especially hit hard.
What is a derecho?
These are the three most active months for tornadoes in the U.S.
What is April, May, and June?
This is considered the most dangerous type of winter precip.
What is freezing rain?
A 2.5 inch hailstone can be described using this object.
What is a tennis ball?
Months of Ohio's peak tornado season.
What is April thru June?
Average number of tornadoes that occur in the U.S. ever year.
What is 1200?
This state is home to the largest hailstone ever recorded in the U.S. at 8 inches in diameter.
What is South Dakota?
March 8, 2008 was the snowiest day in Columbus, Ohio's recorded history dropping this amount of snow.
What is 15-16 inches?
Temperature inversion that prevents convection from occuring.
What is a cap?
The number of F5/EF5 tornadoes Ohio has had.
What is 4?
What is 59?
Indication that large hail is contained in a thunderstorm.
What is a hailspike?
This is the lowest recorded temperature in Ohio's history.
What is -39F?