Summertime aviation's greatest weather threat is not thunderstorms, but rather convection, encompassing both shallow and deep moist convection, with the latter posing significant danger. Rain showers, ...

It all starts with the development of a thunderstorm and the water droplets/hailstones being suspended within the updraft. When the updrafts weaken, it is no longer capable of holding the large core ...

BETWEEN 70 AND 120 MILES PER HOUR. MIKE: WE USUALLY MIKE: KEVIN: WE USUALLY GET A COUPLE OF WARNINGS PER YEAR. TORNADOES AND MICROBURSTS CAN BRING THE SAME INTENSITY OF DAMAGE. IT IS IMPORTANT TO TAKE ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a drier and hotter than usual trend hit Arizona mid-summer, the state has been getting a wetter end to the monsoon with ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A destructive supercell storm tore through the Austin area on Wednesday, leaving behind widespread wind and hail damage, along with flooding caused by extremely high rainfall rates.

Downburst is a term that describes a strong wind event caused by a downdraft within a thunderstorm. These powerful winds develop when precipitation falls through dry air, leading to a rapid ...

TAMPA. Fla. (WFLA) — Storms left behind a mess in parts of Ybor City. The National Weather Service confirmed a brief microburst happened Wednesday afternoon. People spent most of Thursday cleaning up.

The whole reason we got into learning about microbursts was because of a specific type of them that can be caused by virga and those are called “dry microbursts.” The only real difference between dry ...

MOLINE, Ill. — Severe thunderstorms produce everything from damaging winds to large and intense hail, and even tornadoes. But did you know that lurking within powerful thunderstorms is a lesser-known ...