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- 4. A tornado watch is issued why the weather conditions in a specific area/region
- 7. tornado scale developed by Nikolai Dotzek.
- 10. This is a tornado that has two or more sub vortices
- 12. A violent, funnel-shaped rotating column of air
- 13. A tornado warning is issued when an actual tornado funnel has been sighted
- 15. A map that shows current and future weather conditions for specific areas.
- 16. Short for Radio Detecting and Ranging, is used to detect objects at a distance.
- 17. angle from north to south
- 18. A scientist who studies the weather
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- 1. weather instrument used to measure wind speeds.
- 2. weather device used to measure air pressure
- 3. ice the falls from the sky
- 5. The science that deals with weather
- 6. rotating column of wind that hasn't touched the ground.
- 8. The colloquial term for a tornado
- 9. A tornado that occurs over a body of water.
- 11. prediction made by meteorologists of what the weather will be like in the future.
- 14. the term used to describe a sky that is covered with clouds