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AIC 301 FINAL TEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
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Globally, TS are most common .......Answer.........Over tropical
land masses
to get a thunderstorm, we need each of the following three
conditions .......Answer.........Unstable air, a lifting mechanism, and
low, level moisture
over tropical oceans, most TS occur .......Answer.........just before
dawn
An air mass TS has mostly updrafts and surface flow toward the
storm at the __________ stage .......Answer.........cumulus
TS are most common over Iowa .......Answer.........around sunset
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In the US, most thunderstorms occur in____over____
.......Answer.........Summer, florida
An air mass TS typically lasts .......Answer.........30-60 minuntes
Near a dissipating air mass TS with precipitation, the horizontal
surface air flow near the TS is tipically .......Answer.........away
from the TS
Cumulonimbus literally means .......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 .......Answer.........frequent lightning
The outer edge of the expanding cold air below a thunderstorm
is called .......Answer.........the outflow boundry
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TS over the desert southwest are most common during
.......Answer.........mid-afternoon
At the outer edge of the expanding cold air (near a TS) we find
the .......Answer.........gust front
For a multi-cell TS with low level flow from the south, new cells
typically form .......Answer.........south of the mature cell
Severe super cell TS comprise about _____% of all TS
.......Answer.........1%
Severe supercell convection is most common .......Answer.........over
the great plains during late afternoon and evening in April-June
A shelf cloud is .......Answer.........a shelf-like cloud that forms
above a gust front in the updraft south of a multi-cell TS
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Compared with air mass TS, multi and supercell TS
.......Answer.........have more vertical shear
what does the supercell have that a multicell storm lacks?
.......Answer.........rotation
For a sever supercell TS to form over the great plains, one would
expect the 5,000 AGL wind to be .......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 .......Answer.........moist, dry, strong
Supercell thunderstorms are most conmon .......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 .......Answer.........East
AIC 301 FINAL TEST 2025/2026 COMPLETE EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS <LATEST VERSION>
Globally, TS are most common .......Answer.........Over tropical
land masses
to get a thunderstorm, we need each of the following three
conditions .......Answer.........Unstable air, a lifting mechanism, and
low, level moisture
over tropical oceans, most TS occur .......Answer.........just before
dawn
An air mass TS has mostly updrafts and surface flow toward the
storm at the __________ stage .......Answer.........cumulus
TS are most common over Iowa .......Answer.........around sunset
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In the US, most thunderstorms occur in____over____
.......Answer.........Summer, florida
An air mass TS typically lasts .......Answer.........30-60 minuntes
Near a dissipating air mass TS with precipitation, the horizontal
surface air flow near the TS is tipically .......Answer.........away
from the TS
Cumulonimbus literally means .......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 .......Answer.........frequent lightning
The outer edge of the expanding cold air below a thunderstorm
is called .......Answer.........the outflow boundry
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TS over the desert southwest are most common during
.......Answer.........mid-afternoon
At the outer edge of the expanding cold air (near a TS) we find
the .......Answer.........gust front
For a multi-cell TS with low level flow from the south, new cells
typically form .......Answer.........south of the mature cell
Severe super cell TS comprise about _____% of all TS
.......Answer.........1%
Severe supercell convection is most common .......Answer.........over
the great plains during late afternoon and evening in April-June
A shelf cloud is .......Answer.........a shelf-like cloud that forms
above a gust front in the updraft south of a multi-cell TS
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Compared with air mass TS, multi and supercell TS
.......Answer.........have more vertical shear
what does the supercell have that a multicell storm lacks?
.......Answer.........rotation
For a sever supercell TS to form over the great plains, one would
expect the 5,000 AGL wind to be .......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 .......Answer.........moist, dry, strong
Supercell thunderstorms are most conmon .......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 .......Answer.........East
