1.
A severe thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that contains:
a.
Heavy Rain
b.
Dangerous Cloud to Ground Lightning
c.
Pea size hail
d.
Wind gusts of 58 mph or greater and/or hail 3/4 inch or
larger in diameter
a.
Saffir-Simpson, from one to five
b.
Saffir-Simpson, from zero to six
c.
Enhanced Fujita Scale, from zero to 5
d.
Enhanced Fujita Scale, from 1 to 5
a.
Supercells
b.
Bow Echo
c.
Squall Line
d.
Single Cell
a.
Shelf cloud
b.
Wall Cloud
c.
Mammatus Clouds
d.
Scud clouds
True
False
True
False
a.
Get to a safe place and then file your storm report, whether
it is a tornado, straight line winds or hail.
b.
Don’t be a wimp and chase the tornado giving us
much information as possible
c.
No need to file a report. Someone else will report it
anyway
d.
I only file my report if there is a tornado
True
False
a.
Inflow and updrafts
b.
Outflow and downdrafts
c.
they always have tornadoes
d.
shelf clouds are in the rain free base
a.
wall cloud
b.
Mammatus cloud
c.
scud cloud
d.
shelf cloud
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
a.
They keep the public busy.
b.
They give ground truth information and may lead to the
issuance or extension of warnings.
c.
Are not necessary because the Doppler radar can give us
all the weather information we need.
d.
Are not necessary at night, because they can’t see
anything.
a.
year round
b.
only during severe weather season
c.
only during daylight hours
d.
only for snow or ice reports
True
False
True
False
Weather Watch
Weather Warning
True
False
a.
Get an idea of rainfall
b.
Know the height or tops of thunderstorms
c.
show an inbound-outbound couplet in the winds of a thunderstorm
d.
show the sunrise and sunset spikes and migrating birds
True
False
True
False
True
False |