INTRODUCTION TO DEEP CONVECTION MODES - IMPORTANT CONCEPTS AND QUESTIONS

  1. Describe the life cycle of an ordinary cell. Typical lifetime? How do they move?
  2. Discuss the updraft/downdraft strucuture with ordinary cells.
  3. How are multicell stroms organized? Discuss the updraft/downdraft structure of multicell storms.
  4. Discuss the cell and storm motion for multicells.
  5. Discuss the structure of:
    1. updrafts and downdrafts
    2. fronts
    3. precipitation
    4. BWER
    associate with supercells.
  6. Discuss supercell storm motion.
  7. Where does the tornado tend to form?