Severe Weather Storms

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  1. 3. a violent rotating pile of air
  2. 4. flood warning- issued to alert the public for flash floods
  3. 6. a small current of air rising
  4. 8. snow- lots of snow
  5. 10. an intense winter storm with very high winds
  6. 12. A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops in the western part of the North Pacific Ocean between 180° and 100°E.
  7. 14. sky- when the sky has no clouds
  8. 16. storm with a violent wind, in particular a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean
  9. 18. sudden flooding
  10. 21. liquid water precipitation
  11. 22. composed of frozen precipitation, with ice crystals
Down
  1. 1. family- a series of tornadoes produced by a supercell
  2. 2. sometimes the size of grape fruits
  3. 3. the sound produced by lightning
  4. 5. rain- rain that falls in liquid form but freezes upon impact
  5. 7. a form of precipitation consisting of ice pellets, often mixed with rain or snow.
  6. 9. the shaking or movement of a portion of the earths surface
  7. 10. a light wind
  8. 11. it is a term variously applied to tornadoes
  9. 13. national weather services
  10. 15. produced by thunder storms, comes before wind
  11. 17. climate conditions that are good
  12. 18. white ice crystals that form on a surface
  13. 19. thunderstorms- storms with winds up to 50 mph and lots of rain storms
  14. 20. very small amounts of water droplets