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Please note: the questions listed are not the only items that you need to know. The questions point out basic information to help understand some topics, some concepts that may not be obvious to all students, and some of the more difficult concepts.

• Cumulus clouds
  --Formation
  --Description
  --Increases chances of storms

• Towering cumulus cloud
  --How different? Why?

• Cumulonimbus cloud
  --How different? Why?

• How are these clouds similar and different?

Ordinary Thunderstorms   

• Life cycle of a thunderstorm
  --Compare the updrafts and downdrafts of the different stages
  --Describe the importance of condensation in the thunderstorm
  --Why does the thunderstorm weaken?
  --Excellent tutorial of the life cycle from Iowa State
  --nice animation of towering cumulus undergoing shear

• Describe the general conditions needed for thunderstorms.

• What time of day do thunderstorms occur in the U.S.? In Minnesota?

• Video--shelf cloud

Severe Thunderstorms    

• What's different about atmospheric conditions when severe storms cocur?

• How are severe T-storm clouds different from ordinary T-storm clouds?

• Describe multicell storms. 

• Describe squall lines 

• Describe an MCC. What features do we see in an MCC?   

• Describe a supercell.
  --What conditions are needed to produce a supercell?
  --Describe the bounded weak echo region detected on radar with a supercell.
  --How is the cloud structure of a supercell different from other thunderstorm clouds?

• Study help and for fun--Severe storms tutorials