Damaging winds, hail, and flash flooding will stretch from the Plains to the Northeast through the weekend and into next week ...

While summertime pop-up thunderstorms are usually isolated and don't last long, they can be heavy and produce high wind gusts ...

How the Wall of Wind’s fans mimic a downburst’s horizontal force. In the Houston derecho, a downburst hit downtown with 100 mph winds. It cracked some lower windows, likely with blowing debris, but it ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When a downburst’s winds hit the ground, they shoot out horizontally in all ...

downbursts, microbursts and microbursts explained ...

Downburst winds are common within bow echoes, and tornadoes can also form within the storm, especially on the northern periphery known as the “bookend vortex." Additionally, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Amal Elawady, Florida International University; Fahim Ahmed, Florida International ...

(THE CONVERSATION) From a distance, a downburst can look like a torrent of heavy rain. But at ground level, its behavior can be far more destructive. When a downburst’s winds hit the ground ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When a downburst’s winds hit the ground, they shoot out horizontally in all ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) When a downburst’s winds hit the ground, they shoot out horizontally in all ...