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Alright, here's the answer to the trivia question from Friday/Saturday
Continuing with weather theme here. Early in August 2021, the National Weather service began adding a new 'damage threat' tag to severe thunderstorm warnings, similar to the existing tags on flash flood and tornado warnings respectively. What are the names these two new damage threat tags?
Answer: D. The considerable tag is used for a severe thunderstorm that has golf ball (1.75 Inch) hail and/or 70 mph wind gusts. Destructive is used when a severe thunderstorm produces baseball (2.75 inch) hail and/or 80+ mph wind gusts.
Friday/Saturday's questionContinuing with weather theme here. The question above with the new damage tags were added in response to a very damaging severe weather outbreak. Which severe weather outbreak sparked this addition to the severe thunderstorm warning?
A: August 2020 Midwest Derecho
B: April 2011 Superoutbreak
C: June 1998 Corn Belt Derecho
D: The May 2004 Tornado Outbreak Sequence
Answer will be posted around 10 pm Monday