Tornado

How do you spell this correctly?

• Tornedo.

• Tornado.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from the base of a thunderstorm.

• Funnel Cloud

• Tornado

• Condensation Funnel

• Thunderstorm

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A small but very intense vortex within a tornado circulation. Several suction vortices typically are present in a multiple-vortex tornado. Much of the extreme damage associated with violent tornadoes (F4 and F5 on the Fujita scale) is attributed to suction vortices.

• Feeder bands

• Wind shear

• Tornado

• Suction vortex

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A tornado in which two or more condensation funnels or debris clouds are present at the same time, often rotating about a common center or about each other. Can be especially damaging!

• Tornado

• Mesocyclone

• Multiple-vortex tornado

• Straight line winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A storm-scale region of rotation, typically around 2-6 miles in diameter and often found in the right rear flank of a supercell (or often on the eastern, or front, flank of an HP storm)

• Mesocyclone

• Tsunami

• Hurricane

• Wind shear

A scale of wind damage intensity in which wind speeds are inferred from an analysis of wind damage.

• Saffir-Simpson scale

• Fujita scale

• Wind speed scale

• Damage indicator scale

A thunderstorm with a persistent rotating updraft. Responsible for a remarkably high percentage of severe weather events - especially tornadoes, extremely large hail and damaging straight-line winds.

• Tornado

• Training thunderstorms

• Supercell

• Cumulonimbus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Where do tornadoes start?

• Over the ocean near the equator

• In the clouds that create blizzards

• In the clouds of severe thunderstorms

• Any time that it rains

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What are the 3 ingredients for tornadoes?

• moisture, lift, and fronts

• wind shears, water, and moisture

• moisture, lift, and wind shears

• air, heat, and lift

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What type of cloud does a tornado form from?

• Cumulus

• Super cells

• Stratus

• Cumulonimbus

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5