1. A severe thunderstorm is a thunderstorm that contains:
a. Heavy Rain
b. Dangerous Cloud to Ground Lightning
c. Pea size hail
d. Wind gusts of 58 mph or greater and/or hail 3/4 inch or larger in diameter

2. Tornadoes intensities are rated on the:
a. Saffir-Simpson, from one to five
b. Saffir-Simpson, from zero to six
c. Enhanced Fujita Scale, from zero to 5
d. Enhanced Fujita Scale, from 1 to 5

3. Tornadic thunderstorms generally come from thunderstorms that are classified as:
a. Supercells
b. Bow Echo
c. Squall Line
d. Single Cell

4. Tornadoes form in the part of the cloud that is called:
a. Shelf cloud
b. Wall Cloud
c. Mammatus Clouds
d. Scud clouds

5. True or False- Tornadoes can occur any time of the year, and anytime of the day.
True
False

6. True or False- Each one of the 50 states has had a tornado.
True
False

7. What should a spotter do during a thunderstorm?
a. Get to a safe place and then file your storm report, whether it is a tornado, straight line winds or hail.
b. Don’t be a wimp and chase the tornado giving us much information as possible
c. No need to file a report. Someone else will report it anyway
d. I only file my report if there is a tornado

8. True or False- If winds are in excess of 100 mph in a thunderstorm, that had to be a tornado.
True
False

9. Shelf clouds in a thunderstorm are associated with
a. Inflow and updrafts
b. Outflow and downdrafts
c. they always have tornadoes
d. shelf clouds are in the rain free base

10. A roll cloud is a type of
a. wall cloud
b. Mammatus cloud
c. scud cloud
d. shelf cloud

11. True or False. Landspouts form from storms that spin up from the ground to the thunderstorm cloud and are in the weak category.
True
False

12. True or False. A tornadic thunderstorm is generally a “hook” shaped echo on radar.
True
False

13. True or False. Bow echoes in squall lines can produce tornadoes, and are in the violent F4 or F5 range.
True
False

14. True or False. Coins or balls should be used to reference hail size.
True
False

15. True or False. Spotter reports can only be called in to our office at our toll free phone number.
True
False

16. Spotter reports are helpful because
a. They keep the public busy.
b. They give ground truth information and may lead to the issuance or extension of warnings.
c. Are not necessary because the Doppler radar can give us all the weather information we need.
d. Are not necessary at night, because they can’t see anything.

17. Spotter reports can be used
a. year round
b. only during severe weather season
c. only during daylight hours
d. only for snow or ice reports

18. True or False. Rotating wall clouds have a greater potential to produce a tornado.
True
False

19. True or False. Spotters should take chances and get as close to a tornado as possible.
True
False

20. Which is worse. A weather watch or weather warning.
Weather Watch
Weather Warning

21. True or False. The Storm Prediction Center (SPC) issue severe thunderstorm and tornado watches for the U.S.
True
False

22. One of the many useful features that the Doppler Radar can display that earlier radars could not do is:
a. Get an idea of rainfall
b. Know the height or tops of thunderstorms
c. show an inbound-outbound couplet in the winds of a thunderstorm
d. show the sunrise and sunset spikes and migrating birds

23. True or False. The National Weather Service is the sole entity for issuing weather watches and warnings for the U.S.
True
False

24. True or False. NOAA Weather Radio-All Hazards is one of the fastest ways to get weather watches and warnings.
True
False

25. True or False. Non-weather related emergencies are not broadcast on NOAA Weather radio.
True
False