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WX 301 FINAL TEST EXAM 2024/2025 WITH100% ACCURATE 2024/2025
Globally, TS are most common - Precise Answer ✔✔Over tropical land masses
to get a thunderstorm, we need each of the following three conditions - Precise Answer ✔✔Unstable
air, a lifting mechanism, and low, level moisture
over tropical oceans, most TS occur - Precise Answer ✔✔just before dawn
An air mass TS has mostly updrafts and surface flow toward the storm at the __________ stage - Precise
Answer ✔✔cumulus
TS are most common over Iowa - Precise Answer ✔✔around sunset
In the US, most thunderstorms occur in____over____ - Precise Answer ✔✔Summer, florida
An air mass TS typically lasts - Precise Answer ✔✔30-60 minuntes
Near a dissipating air mass TS with precipitation, the horizontal surface air flow near the TS is tipically -
Precise Answer ✔✔away from the TS
Cumulonimbus literally means - Precise Answer ✔✔heaped rain producing clouds
when flying at night, the best way to be alerted that severe TS are within 50 miles of me is - Precise
Answer ✔✔frequent lightning
The outer edge of the expanding cold air below a thunderstorm is called - Precise Answer ✔✔the
outflow boundry
,TS over the desert southwest are most common during - Precise Answer ✔✔mid-afternoon
At the outer edge of the expanding cold air (near a TS) we find the - Precise Answer ✔✔gust front
For a multi-cell TS with low level flow from the south, new cells typically form - Precise Answer
✔✔south of the mature cell
Severe super cell TS comprise about _____% of all TS - Precise Answer ✔✔1%
Severe supercell convection is most common - Precise Answer ✔✔over the great plains during late
afternoon and evening in April-June
A shelf cloud is - Precise Answer ✔✔a shelf-like cloud that forms above a gust front in the updraft south
of a multi-cell TS
Compared with air mass TS, multi and supercell TS - Precise Answer ✔✔have more vertical shear
what does the supercell have that a multicell storm lacks? - Precise Answer ✔✔rotation
For a sever supercell TS to form over the great plains, one would expect the 5,000 AGL wind to be -
Precise Answer ✔✔190/45
Severe convection is most likely when the atmosphere is warm and ____near the surface and cold and
_____dry aloft, with ____vertical wind shear - Precise Answer ✔✔moist, dry, strong
Supercell thunderstorms are most conmon - Precise Answer ✔✔in the warm sector, east of the cold
front
A supercell storm is embedded in an average tropospheric flow from 230 the storm will move to the -
Precise Answer ✔✔East
, The low-level jet commonly occurs at a level of around______ AGL and is strongest in the ______ -
Precise Answer ✔✔5,000ft, evening
A wall cloud is - Precise Answer ✔✔a rotating cloud hanging below the main base of a supercell
In the wind profile of a supercell TS - Precise Answer ✔✔The DDD gets bigger and the velocity increases
In a downdraft, cold air descends, hits the ground and spreads out horizontally. The leading edge of the
expanding cold air is called the_________ - Precise Answer ✔✔out flow boundry
The flanking line is a line of towering cumulus clouds on the ______ side of a _______ thunderstorm -
Precise Answer ✔✔south, supercell
A squall line commonly forms - Precise Answer ✔✔along the dry line east of the cold front or along the
cold front
West of the strongest squall-line precipitation, I would most likely find - Precise Answer ✔✔lighter
precipitation in a trailing stratiform region
Severe squall-line weather is most commonly found along the____edges of a cold frontal band - Precise
Answer ✔✔eastern and southern
A Doppler radar measures - Precise Answer ✔✔precipitation intensity and air speed to/from the radar
Mesoscale convective complexes form in _____ beneath______ - Precise Answer ✔✔July-September,
and upper level ridge
Mesoscale convective complexes over the US are most common - Precise Answer ✔✔over the great
plains in July/August
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