Tornado Alley
The Midwestern United States is home to "Tornado Alley," a portion of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska commonly plagued with powerful and plentiful tornadoes. Tornado Alley is located at a point where the jet stream drives cool, dry, high-pressure air masses from the deserts and mountains of the West toward the East Coast."
When the cool, dry, high-pressure system moves into "Tornado Alley", which type of air mass does it run into where a tornado could be the result?
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moist, cool, low-pressure air masses from Canada
moist, cool, low-pressure air masses from Canada
dry, warm, high-pressure air masses from the Atlantic Ocean
dry, warm, high-pressure air masses from the Atlantic Ocean
moist, warm, low-pressure air masses from the Gulf of Mexico
moist, warm, low-pressure air masses from the Gulf of Mexico
dry, cool, high-pressure air masses from Alaska
dry, cool, high-pressure air masses from Alaska
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