Here are the stages in the development of a thunderstorm in the correct order:
- ________ 15. Warm, moist air rises quickly, and the moisture condenses into a visible cloud. Then updrafts form.
- ________ 14. Equal amounts of updrafts and downwards from convection cells.
- ________ 19. The updrafts slow as downdrafts decrease the supply of warm, moist surface air.
- ________ 16. Falling precipitation cools the air around it, forming downdrafts.
- ________ 17. Precipitation begins to fall.
- ________ 18. The updrafts cease and precipitation stops.