Severe Weather Crossword

1. A tornado whose circulation has not reached the ground.
5. A strong localized downdraft (downburst)less than 4 km wide that occurs beneath thunderstorms.
6. A severe localized downdraft that can be experienced beneath a severe thunderstorm.
10. A line of thunderstorms that form along a cold front or out ahead of it.
12. Simulation of the atmosphere’s behavior by mathematical equations or by physical models.
13. An intense, rotating column of air that protrudes from a cumulonimbus cloud in the shape of a funnel or arope whose circulation is present on the ground.
16. A warning issued when a tornado has actually been observed either visually or on a radar screen.
17. A forecast issued to alert the public that
18. A dense, cylindrical, elongated cloud that appears to slowly spin about a horizontal axis behind the leading edge of a thunderstorm’s gust front.

1. A scale developed by T. Theodore Fujita for classifying tornadoes according to the damage they cause and their rotational wind speed.
2. Localized snowstorms that form on the
3. A chart showing expected or forecasted conditions, such as pressure patterns, frontal positions,contour height patterns, and so on.
4. A radar that determines the velocity of falling precipitation either toward or away from the radar unit by taking into account the Doppler shift.
7. An area of rotating clouds that extends beneath a severe thunderstorm and from which a funnel cloud may appear.
8. A boundary that separates a cold downdraft of a thunderstorm from warm
9. may develop within a specified area.
11. Flood A flood that rises and falls quite rapidly with little or no advance warning, usually as the result of intense rainfall over a relatively small area.
14. A column of rotating wind over water that has characteristics of a dust devil and tornado. that determines the velocity of falling precipitation either toward or away from the radar unit by taking into account the Doppler shift.Waterspout
15. wind side of a lake.