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Severe Storms
1.) temperature
2.) humidity
3.) air pressure
4.) precipitation
5.) wind
Air Masses and Weather
Occluded Fronts
Features
• Violent windstorm
• Rotating column of air that extends down from a
cumulonimbus cloud
• Low pressure inside causes the air to rush into the tornado
• Winds approach 480 km (300 miles) per hour
• Smaller suction vortices can form inside stronger
tornadoes
Tornado Intensity
Because tornado winds cannot
be measured directly, a rating on
the Fujita scale is determined by
assessing the worst damage
produced by the storm.
Tornado Safety
Tornado watches alert people to the
possibility of tornadoes in a specified
area for a particular time.
Parts of a hurricane
Eyewall
Near the center
Rising air
Intense convective activity
Hurricane Intensity
The intensity of a hurricane is
described using the Saffir-
Simpson scale.
Severe weather occurs when
unstable air is forced up
Severe weather is seasonal
– Frontal wedging between cP and mT
(Spring)
– Warm ocean waters (Summer and Fall)
– Isolated T-Storms (localized convective
lifting in summer)
– Lake-effect snow (cP moves over water)
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