Check Your Understanding (CYU)


Storms Day 3 - CYU_2

Caution: For some CYU questions, more than one of the listed answer options might be correct. For other CYU questions, none of the listed answer options might be correct.  We do this to encourage you to think about the topic. 
Feel free to debate the answers with your peers (i.e., classmates) on the Canvas Discussion board, which is monitored by the TAs.

Question:

As a tornadic thunderstorm approaches you, the sequence of events you experience over your location (not far away) is:


Answer Options:

    (A)  tornado, downpour, rainbow, lightning, anvil

    (B)  anvil, gust front, lightning, downpour, tornado

    (C)  downpour, gustront, anvil, tornado, lightning

    (D)  supercell, tornado, mesocyclone, wall cloud, lightning

    (E)  (none of the above)



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Earth, Ocean & Atmospheric Sciences Dept.
Univ. of British Columbia