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Tower Heights Hurricane and Tropical Storm Vocab #1
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Eastern North Pacific Basin: The portion of the North Pacific Ocean east of 140W.
National Hurricane Center: Responsible for tracking tropical cyclones in the Eastern North Pacific Basin.
Direct Hit: Occurs when a tropical cyclone passes to within a distance equal to the cyclones radius of maximum wind.
Cyclone: An atmospheric closed circulation rotating counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Center: The vertical axis of a tropical cyclone, usually defined by the location of minimum wind or minimum pressure.
Best Track: A subjectively-smoothed representation of a tropical cyclone's location and intensity over its lifetime.
Advisory: Official information issued by tropical cyclone warning centers describing all watches and warnings in effect.
Eye: The roughly circular area of comparatively light winds that encompasses the center of a severe tropical cyclone.
Eyewall Cloud: Completely or partially surrounds the eye of a tropical cyclone.
Extratropical: A term used in advisories and tropical summaries to indicate that a cyclone has lost is "tropical" characteristics.
Baroclinic: The temperature contrast between warm and cold air masses.
Fujiwhara Effect: The tendency of two nearby tropical cyclones to rotate cyclonically about each other.
Hurricane: A tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind is 64 Kt, or 74 mph or 119 KM or more.
Indirect Hit: Locations that experience hurricane force winds or tides of at least 4 feet above normal but do not have a direct hit from a tropical cyclone.
Storm Surge: An abnormal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane or other intense storm, and whose height is the difference between the observed level of the sea surface and the level that would have occurred int he absence of the cyclone.
Storm Tide: The actual level of sea water resulting from the astronomic Tide combined with the storm surge.
Tower Heights Hurricane and Tropical Storm Vocab #1
Across:4. | An atmospheric closed circulation rotating counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. | 7. | An abnormal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane or other intense storm, and whose height is the difference between the observed level of the sea surface and the level that would have occurred int he absence of the cyclone. | 9. | Responsible for tracking tropical cyclones in the Eastern North Pacific Basin. | 10. | The roughly circular area of comparatively light winds that encompasses the center of a severe tropical cyclone. | 11. | The vertical axis of a tropical cyclone, usually defined by the location of minimum wind or minimum pressure. | 14. | Official information issued by tropical cyclone warning centers describing all watches and warnings in effect. | 15. | A tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind is 64 Kt, or 74 mph or 119 KM or more. | 16. | The portion of the North Pacific Ocean east of 140W. |
| | Down:1. | The temperature contrast between warm and cold air masses. | 2. | The tendency of two nearby tropical cyclones to rotate cyclonically about each other. | 3. | A subjectively-smoothed representation of a tropical cyclone's location and intensity over its lifetime. | 5. | A term used in advisories and tropical summaries to indicate that a cyclone has lost is "tropical" characteristics. | 6. | Completely or partially surrounds the eye of a tropical cyclone. | 8. | Occurs when a tropical cyclone passes to within a distance equal to the cyclones radius of maximum wind. | 12. | Locations that experience hurricane force winds or tides of at least 4 feet above normal but do not have a direct hit from a tropical cyclone. | 13. | The actual level of sea water resulting from the astronomic Tide combined with the storm surge. |
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Tower Heights Hurricane and Tropical Storm Vocab #1
Across:4. | An atmospheric closed circulation rotating counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. | 7. | An abnormal rise in sea level accompanying a hurricane or other intense storm, and whose height is the difference between the observed level of the sea surface and the level that would have occurred int he absence of the cyclone. | 9. | Responsible for tracking tropical cyclones in the Eastern North Pacific Basin. | 10. | The roughly circular area of comparatively light winds that encompasses the center of a severe tropical cyclone. | 11. | The vertical axis of a tropical cyclone, usually defined by the location of minimum wind or minimum pressure. | 14. | Official information issued by tropical cyclone warning centers describing all watches and warnings in effect. | 15. | A tropical cyclone in which the maximum sustained surface wind is 64 Kt, or 74 mph or 119 KM or more. | 16. | The portion of the North Pacific Ocean east of 140W. |
| | Down:1. | The temperature contrast between warm and cold air masses. | 2. | The tendency of two nearby tropical cyclones to rotate cyclonically about each other. | 3. | A subjectively-smoothed representation of a tropical cyclone's location and intensity over its lifetime. | 5. | A term used in advisories and tropical summaries to indicate that a cyclone has lost is "tropical" characteristics. | 6. | Completely or partially surrounds the eye of a tropical cyclone. | 8. | Occurs when a tropical cyclone passes to within a distance equal to the cyclones radius of maximum wind. | 12. | Locations that experience hurricane force winds or tides of at least 4 feet above normal but do not have a direct hit from a tropical cyclone. | 13. | The actual level of sea water resulting from the astronomic Tide combined with the storm surge. |
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