Severe Weather Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. A line of thunderstorms that form along a cold front or out ahead of it.
  2. 5. An acronym for Next Generation Weather Radar.
  3. 6. A scale developed by T. Theodore Fujita for classifying tornadoes according to the damage they cause and their rotational wind speed.
  4. 7. Localized snowstorms that form on the downwind of a lake
  5. 9. A strong localized downdraft (downburst) less than 4 km wide that occurs beneath thunderstorms.
  6. 10. 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. 13. A chart showing expected or forecasted conditions, such as pressure patterns, frontal positions,contour height patterns, and so on.
  8. 14. A dense, cylindrical, elongated cloud that appears to slowly spin about a horizontal axis behind the leading edge of a thunderstorm’s gust front.
  9. 17. A boundary that separates a cold downdraft of a thunderstorm from warm, humid surface air.
  10. 19. A tornado whose circulation has not reached the ground.
  11. 20. An intense, rotating column of air that protrudes from a cumulonimbus cloud in the shape of a funnel or a rope whose circulation is present on the ground.
Down
  1. 1. A dense, arch-shaped, ominous-looking cloud that often forms along the leading edge of a thunderstorm’s gust front, AKA arcus cloud
  2. 2. An enormous severe thunderstorm whose updrafts and downdrafts are nearly in balance, allowing it to maintain itself for several hours.
  3. 4. A forecast indicating that hazardous weather is either imminent or actually occurring within the specified forecast area.
  4. 8. A forecast indicating that atmospheric conditions are favorable for hazardous weather to occur over a particular region during a specified time period.
  5. 11. A severe localized downdraft that can be experienced beneath a severe thunderstorm.
  6. 12. An area of rotating clouds that extends beneath a severe thunderstorm and from which a funnel cloud may appear. Also called a collar cloud.
  7. 15. A column of rotating wind over water that has characteristics of a dust devil and tornado.
  8. 16. Simulation of the atmosphere’s behavior by mathematical equations or by physical models.
  9. 18. A flood that rises and falls quite rapidly with little or no advance warning,