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Question 1

In what conditions does a thunderstorm form?

Answer 1

Sufficient moisture, some mechanism of the air must rise, the portion of the atmosphere that the cloud grows through must be unstable

Question 2

Stage 1 of Thunderstorm Development

Answer 2

Warm, moist, air rises quickly, and the moisture condenses into a visible cloud. Then updrafts form

Question 3

Stage 2 of Thunderstorm Development

Answer 3

Precipitation begins to fall

Question 4

Stage 3 of Thunderstorm Development

Answer 4

Falling precipitation cools the air around it, forming downdrafts

Question 5

Stage 4 of Thunderstorm Development

Answer 5

Equal amounts of updrafts and downdrafts form convection cells

Question 6

Stage 5 of Thunderstorm Development

Answer 6

The updrafts slow as downdrafts decrease the supply of warm, moist, surface air

Question 7

Stage 6 of Thunderstorm Development

Answer 7

The updrafts cease and precipitation stops

Question 9

Supercells

Answer 9

Powerful, self sustaining thunderstorm that develop intense rotating updrafts

Question 10

Violent downdrafts concentrated in one local area

Answer 10

Downbursts

Question 11

Microbursts

Answer 11

Powerful downdrafts that affect an area of less than 4km with winds exceeding 250 km/h

Question 12

Macrobursts

Answer 12

Downdrafts that affect an area up to 5 km wide with winds of more than 200 km/h