Severe and Unusual Weather ESAS 1115

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Severe and Unusual Weather ESAS 1115

• Spotter Training and Radar Meteorology
• Lab

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1 Where are the winds dues south?
A
D
C
B
E
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2 Which is the best letter to represent the
mesoscyclone? Explain why you know.
A
B
C
D
E
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3 What is the most likely explanation for the
feature indicated below?
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4 Describe what is at each letter.
A
B
C
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5 What is the greatest gate to gate shear
indicated here?
Use the maximum value for each color
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6 What is the difference between figure A and
figure B?
A
B
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7 What is the direction of the winds at the
radar site?
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8 What are the features at each letter? Explain
your answer to letter D
C
D
A
B
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9 What would give you reason to believe that the
southernmost storm is severe? Discuss thoroughly.
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10 In the images of a tornado on radar, explain
why the velocity data is not gate to gate.
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11 What is the explanation for the feature at
letter A?
A
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12 How would you explain that this is an RFD?
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13 What is this?
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14 Is this more likely a TVS or a mesocyclone?
Explain.
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15 What is the feature at A?
A
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16 What is this?
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17 What is this?
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18 What is this?
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19 Describe everything you see in this picture.
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20 Explain the feature at letter A and explain
your reasoning.
A
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21 What is the feature at letter A?
A
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22 What kind of supercell is this?
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23 What is this feature?
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24 What is this feature?
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25 What kind of supercell is this?
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26 What is this?
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27 Is this a tornado? Explain why or why not.
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28 What is this texture?
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29 What is the feature at letter A?
A
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30 Is this a wall cloud or shelf cloud? Defend
your answer.
Looking north