USPS ® Weather Course Supplemental Slide Set Thunderstorms & Tornadoes.

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USPS® Weather Course Supplemental Slide Set Thunderstorms & Tornadoes

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USPS® Weather Course

Supplemental Slide Set

Thunderstorms

& Tornadoes

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Supercell

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Supercell

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Supercell

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Isolated Severe Thunderstorm

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Severe Thunderstorm

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Thunderstorm Outflow

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Wall Cloud

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Wall Cloud

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Wall Cloud with Tail Cloud

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Circular Base of Rotating Wall Cloud

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Approaching Thunderstorm

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Lead Gust Front & Shelf Cloud

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Approaching Thunderstorm

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Lead Gust Front & Shelf Cloud

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Turbulent Gust Front Clouds

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Funnel Cloud Approaching Ground

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Developing Tornado

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Early Stage Development Continues

Mature Stage Very Mature Stage

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Union City Tornado - 1973

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Arcadia Tornado - 1974

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Lakeview, Texas - 1977

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Mayfield Tornado - 1977

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Shamrock Tornado - 1977

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Wichita Falls Tornado - 1979

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Tornado with Associated Dust Cloud

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“Rope” or Decay Stage of Tornado

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Project VORTEX

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Waterspouts in the Bahamas

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Waterspout off Florida Keys - 1969

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