tornadoes - 2024 ACF Fall - Buzzpoints App

Question

The TORRO scale, which measures the strength of these phenomena, simply involves doing basic arithmetic on the Beaufort wind scale. For 10 points each:

[10e] Name these violently rotating columns of air, whose strength is measured by the Enhanced Fujita scale. These phenomena occur frequently in a namesake “Alley” of the central US.

ANSWER: tornadoes [accept twisters; prompt on whirlwinds or vortex or vortices or funnel clouds]

[10m] Many tornadoes form in the mesocyclones that characterize these massive rotating thunderstorms which contain a persistent updraft.

ANSWER: supercells

[10h] Supercells are usually found alone, instead of in a line along a cold front with this name. A sudden increase in wind speed that lasts longer than a gust has this name.

ANSWER: squall [accept squall line]

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Summary


2024 ACF Fall at Cornell	fall	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State	fall	Y	8	15.00	100%	38%	13%
2024 ACF Fall at Washington	fall	Y	6	15.00	100%	33%	17%
2024 ACF Fall at Georgia	fall	Y	11	13.64	100%	36%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina	fall	Y	9	12.22	100%	22%	0%
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges	fall	Y	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers	fall	Y	8	16.25	100%	63%	0%

Data


Cornell A	Cornell D	10	0	0	10
RIT A	Cornell B	10	0	0	10
CWRU C (UG)	CWRU B (DII)	10	10	0	20
West Virginia A (UG)	Miami C (DII)	10	0	0	10
UBC B	UW Pride	10	0	0	10
Arizona State A	UW Sloth	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt A	Alabama A	10	0	0	10
VCU	Appalachian State B	10	0	0	10
Penn A (DII)	Lehigh A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Cornell E	Binghamton B	10	0	0	10
Binghamton C	Cornell C	10	0	0	10
U of Rochester A	Syracuse	10	0	0	10
CWRU A (UG)	Michigan C	10	10	10	30
Michigan State A	Jefferson County Scholars (DII)	10	0	0	10
Ohio State B (DII)	Michigan State B	10	0	0	10
Boise State	UW Gluttony	10	0	0	10
UW Greed	UW Lust	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Missisippi State	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Missisippi State	10	0	0	10
Emory Oxford	Emory A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech E	Mississippi State A	10	0	0	10
South Carolina B	Southern	10	0	0	10
Clemson B	Tennessee B	10	0	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty A	10	0	0	10
Liberty C	Tusculum	10	0	0	10
UNC C	Appalachian State A	10	10	0	20
Virginia	William & Mary	10	0	0	10
Claremont A	UCLA B	10	0	0	10
UCLA D	UCSD	10	10	0	20
Columbia J (DII)	Lehigh B (DII)	10	10	0	20
Maryland B (DII)	Fordham A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Maryland A (DII)	10	0	0	10
NYU A (UG)	Rowan A (DII)	10	0	0	10
Binghamton A	RIT C	10	10	0	20
Penn State	Cornell F	10	0	0	10
Cornell G	ESF	10	0	0	10
RIT B	U of Rochester B	10	10	0	20
Ohio State C (DII)	Michigan B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Michigan A (UG)	Michigan D (UG)	10	10	0	20
Miami A (UG)	West Virginia B (UG)	10	0	0	10
Alberta	Arizona State B	10	0	0	10
UW Wrath	UBC A	10	10	10	30
Furman	Georgia Tech A	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech C	Belmont	10	10	0	20
Tennessee A	Georgia Tech D	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Missisippi State	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Auburn C	10	10	0	20
Georgia Tech B	Missisippi State	10	10	0	20
Vanderbilt B	Auburn B	10	0	0	10
UNC B	Duke A	10	0	0	10
UNC D	James Madison B	10	0	0	10
NC State	Virginia Tech B	10	10	0	20
UNC A	Duke B	10	0	0	10
UCLA C	Claremont C	10	10	0	20
UCLA E	UCLA A	10	10	0	20
USC	Claremont B	10	10	10	30
Columbia A (UG)	Bard A (UG)	10	10	0	20
Columbia B	Rutgers B	10	0	0	10
Penn B (DII)	Princeton A (UG)	10	10	0	20