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  2. Trough (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    A trough is an elongated area of lower air pressure. Since pressure is closely linked to wind, there are often changes in wind direction across a trough. If a trough forms in the mid-latitudes, a temperature difference at some distance between the two sides of the trough usually exists and the trough might become a weather front at some

  3. 1925 tri-state tornado outbreak - Wikipedia

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    A pronounced pressure trough extended northeast of the low and signaled its future track as a prefrontal trough formed southeast of the low ahead of the dry line. A bulge in the dry line may also have been forming slightly south of the low, and southerly to southeasterly surface winds were backing and increasing with time throughout the warm ...

  4. Weather front - Wikipedia

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    A weather front is a boundary separating air masses for which several characteristics differ, such as air density, wind, temperature, and humidity.Disturbed and unstable weather due to these differences often arises along the boundary.

  5. 1925 tri-state tornado - Wikipedia

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    A pronounced pressure trough extended northeast of the low and signaled its future track as a prefrontal trough formed southeast of the low ahead of the dry line. A bulge in the dry line may also have been forming slightly south of the low, and southerly to southeasterly surface winds were backing and increasing with time throughout the warm ...

  6. Squall line - Wikipedia

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    A weather radar image of a mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) over Pennsylvania with a leading squall line. A squall line, or quasi-linear convective system (QLCS), is a line of thunderstorms, often forming along or ahead of a cold front. In the early 20th century, the term was used as a synonym for cold front (which often are accompanied by ...

  7. Mesoscale convective system - Wikipedia

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    A mesoscale convective system's overall cloud and precipitation pattern may be round or linear in shape, and include weather systems such as tropical cyclones, squall lines, lake-effect snow events, polar lows, and mesoscale convective complexes (MCCs), and generally forms near weather fronts. The type that forms during the warm season over ...

  8. Shortwave (meteorology) - Wikipedia

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    Shortwave trough with associated vorticity. A shortwave or shortwave trough is an embedded kink in the trough / ridge pattern. Its length scale is much smaller than that of and is embedded within longwaves, which are responsible for the largest scale (synoptic scale) weather systems.

  9. 2002 Veterans Day weekend tornado outbreak - Wikipedia

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    Ahead of this activity, additional discrete supercells overspread much of Ohio owing to a prefrontal trough. [16] [7] A long-tracked, violent F4 tornado began in Van Wert and tracked for over 52 mi (84 km), killing 4 people and injuring 17 others. [17] An F3 tornado near Tiffin killed one person and injured two others. [18]