If an updraft tilts a rotating tube of air and draws it into a storm, the tilted, rotating tube becomes part of the storm’s structure, called the ____

a. bounded weak echo region
b. mesocyclone
c. megacyclone
d. vortex tube
e. low-level jet stream


ANSWER: b

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