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