Across
- 2. self-sustaining severe thunderstorm
- 4. violent downdraft
- 6. sound produced as the superheated air rapidly expanding and contracting
- 7. stored energy in water vapor
- 8. large body of air that takes on characteristics of the area over which it forms
Down
- 1. Damage Scale ranking tornadoes according to their destruction and estimated wind speed
- 3. channel of positively charged particles rushing upwards
- 5. channel of partially charged air
- 6. a violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground