Chapter 5.3 Severe Storms

• Characteristics of a severe thunderstorm include:

• • vertical shear (change in wind direction and/or speed with height) helps to organize and prolong the storm
  • exhibit mesoscale (10’s-100’s km) organization (squall lines, multicell storms, supercell storms, mesoscale convective systems

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