Severe Weather Identification and Safety

This is a low bank of clouds that arc out in front of the main area of precipitation in a severe thunderstorm. It can be as big as a city and is in the front of the storm.

• Anvil

• Shelf Cloud

• Tornado

• Hurricane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The main rotating updraft in a severe thunderstorm is also known as a

• Mesocyclone

• Overshooting top

• Anvil

• Front Flank Downdraft

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This is a cone-shaped rotating cloud extending from the base of a thunderstorm, but does NOT contact the ground.

• Wall cloud

• Shelf cloud

• Funnel cloud

• Tornado

Which of the following events is ranked number one in storm related deaths?

• Hurricane

• Tornadoes

• Flash Flooding

• Blizzard

This feature is found under the updraft of a thunderstorm, may be rotating, is most likely where tornadoes form, and is about the size of a farmer's field?

• Anvil

• Shelf cloud

• Front Flank Downdraft

• Wall Cloud

True or False: A tornado watch means that you must take cover immediately in an interior room of a house or the basement.

• True

• False

This is the dirt and wreckage from the winds of a tornado.

• Debris

• Fujita scale

• Overshooting top

• Mesocyclone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Identify this feature

• Funnel Cloud

• Tornado

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

True or False: If you can hear thunder, you can be struck by lightning.

• True

• False

A tornado is found in what part of the supercell thunderstorm?

• Directly under the Anvil in the front of the storm.

• In the middle of the storm in the Front Flank Downdraft

• At the back of the storm beneath the updraft

• It spins up from the Shelf cloud

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2