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Coldfronts occur when heavy cold air displaces lighter warm air, pushing it upward. Cumulus clouds form and usually grow into thunderstorms during cold fronts

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Can cold fronts bring violent thunderstorms?

Yes. Thunderstorms are more common along cold fronts, but they can occur with warm fronts as well.


What violent storms occur in cold fronts?

Severe thunderstorms often occur along cold fronts. These storms can produce damaging winds, large hail, flooding, and sometimes tornadoes.


What kind of storm occurs during fronts?

Thunderstorms goes with cold fronts and stationery fronts. Warm fronts usually bring moisture into the area.


Why do high pressure fronts follow cold fronts?

To cause thunderstorms


What is the effect of warm or cold fronts during a tornado?

Cold fronts and, less often, warm fronts are capable of sparking severe thunderstorms in a sufficiently unstable air mass. Given a few other factors such as strong wind shear, these thunderstorms may go on to produce tornadoes.


Most severe thunderstorms that occur in the middle latitudes form along or ahead of cold fronts?

This was a true or false question. The answer is True.


What type of weather front brings thunderstorms?

Generally cold fronts bring thunderstorms.


What fronts happen when a tornado is present?

Tornadoes will most commonly occur in association with a cold front or dry line. Torbnadic storms may occasionally occur in the presence of a warm front as well. Some tornadoes will occur without any fronts. Remember that fronts do not directly cause tornadoes; thunderstorms do.


What type of front would likely bring hail and possible tornadoes in to an area?

Severe thunderstorms most often occur ahead of cold fronts.


How are tornadoes related to frontal systems?

Tornadoes are produced by thunderstorms. Most of the thunderstorms that produce tornadoes develop along weather fronts, particularly cold fronts.


Why are cold fronts more dangerous than warm fronts?

Cold fronts are more likely to produce severe thunderstorms and heavy rain that may lead to flooding.


Is cold fronts can bring violent thunderstorms true or false?

True