Tornadoes

Question 0

How do tornadoes form?

Answer 0

Form from thunderstorms

Question 1

What is a tornadoe?

Answer 1

Violent rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm the the ground

Question 2

What do tornadoes look like?

Answer 2

Funnel shape or slender-rope like form

Question 3

What is a funnel cloud?

Answer 3

Rotating cone-shaped column of air extending downward from the base of a thunderstorm

Question 4

What is a supercell thunderstorm?

Answer 4

Long-lived thunderstorm whose up drafts and downdraft are in near balance

Question 5

What is a mesocyclone?

Answer 5

Rotating vertex of air inside a supercell thunderstorm

Question 6

What is a microburst?

Answer 6

Sinking air in a thunderstorm

Question 7

What is a waterspout?

Answer 7

A week tornado

Question 8

What is hail?

Answer 8

Water droplets that are caught in the updraft of a thunderstorm

Question 9

What is a gustando?

Answer 9

Short-lived & weak whirlwind

Question 10

What is a land-spout?

Answer 10

Very weak tornado

Question 11

What is a dust devil?

Answer 11

Mostly harmless whirlwinds- forms in the hot sun