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Dedicated to community safety, eyes-on-the-storm spotting, and real-time reporting to keep you informed and safe. 📡🌪️

09/07/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Riddle Time! 🌪️

I form when cold outflow sweeps out from the storm,

Pushing up warm air ahead in a threatening form.

Attached to the cloud base, low, shelf-like, and wide,

I bring gusts and squalls on the forward-flank side.

What cloud feature am I?

A) Shelf Cloud (Arcus)

B) Wall Cloud

C) Beavertail

D) Funnel Cloud

Drop your guesses below! 👇 (Answer in replies)

09/06/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Riddle Time! 🌪️

I hang from the sky like pouches of stone,

Beneath the storm’s anvil where fierce winds have blown.

I look like bad news, sinking down in the blue,

Yet I follow the hail and the worst that broke through.

What cloud feature am I?

A) Shelf Cloud

B) Wall Cloud

C) Mammatus Clouds

D) Funnel Cloud

Drop your guesses below! 👇 (Answer in replies)

09/05/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Trivia Time! 🌪️

What is the term for ragged, detached cloud fragments often seen rapidly moving or scudding beneath a thunderstorm’s main cloud base, frequently mistaken by spotters for a developing funnel cloud or tornado?

A) Scud Clouds (Pannus)

B) Tail Cloud

C) Wall Cloud

D) Mammatus Clouds

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09/04/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Trivia Time! 🌪️

What is the term for the dome-like protrusion that punches above a severe thunderstorm’s flat anvil cloud into the lower stratosphere, driven by an exceptionally powerful updraft?

A) Mammatus

B) Flanking Line

C) Overshooting Top

D) Arcus

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09/03/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Trivia Time! 🌪️

What is the radar reflectivity feature that appears as a hole or vault of low reflectivity completely surrounded by intense precipitation aloft, marking an extremely violent updraft capable of suspending massive hail?

A) Bounded Weak Echo Region (BWER)

B) Three-Body Scatter Spike (TBSS)

C) Rear Flank Downdraft (RFD)

D) V-Notch

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09/02/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Trivia Time! 🌪️

Which specialized radar product, generated by comparing inbound and outbound velocities in a storm, is used to directly identify low-level mesocyclones and Tornado Vortex Signatures (TVS)?

A) Storm Relative Motion (SRM)

B) Vertically Integrated Liquid (VIL)

C) Echo Tops (ET)

D) Differential Phase (PhiDP)

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09/01/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Trivia Time! 🌪️

What is the term for a low-level, horizontal, tube-shaped accessory cloud that rotates around a horizontal axis and is completely detached from the base of the parent cumulonimbus storm?

A) Shelf Cloud

B) Roll Cloud

C) Scud Cloud

D) Wall Cloud

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08/31/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Trivia Time! 🌪️

What is the term for a violent, fast-moving convective windstorm—often associated with a widespread squall line—that produces a continuous band of straight-line wind damage stretching over hundreds of miles?

A) Microburst
B) Derecho
C) Haboob
D) Squall Line Outflow

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08/30/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Trivia Time! 🌪️

What is the term for a violent, localized column of sinking air that produces damaging straight-line winds spanning less than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) in diameter?

A) Macroburst

B) Microburst

C) Derecho

D) Haboob

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08/29/2026

⚡ SKYWARN & Weather Trivia Time! 🌪️

What visual feature often wraps tightly around the south or southwest side of a tornadic supercell, cutting into the updraft base and carving out a distinct "clear slot"?

A) Forward Flank Downdraft (FFD)

B) Rear Flank Downdraft (RFD)

C) Flanking Line

D) Anvil Overshooting Top

Drop your answers below! 👇 (Answer in replies)

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