downburst in a sentence
Examples
- Additionally, over $ 800, 000 in hail and downburst damage was reported over South Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
- Another severe thunderstorm struck in 2014, causing a downburst with winds at minimal hurricane strength on the evening of September 7th.
- Downburst damage can be differentiated from that of a tornado because the resulting destruction is circular and radiates away from the center.
- The storm then curved slightly to the east, dissipating into a wide area of downburst damage near the community of Johnsonville.
- The parcel descends rapidly, warming due to compression, overshoots its equilibrium level and reaches the surface, similar to a downburst.
- After flying through the core of the downburst, the aircraft encounters a tail wind, loses lift and can fall from the sky.
- Hurricane-force winds were reported with a few of the cells, namely near Rocky, Oklahoma where gusts reached in a downburst.
- This high pressure area is formed due to strong descending motion behind the squall line, and could come in the form of a downburst.
- More than 60 homes, and over 300 farm buildings were hit and destroyed by the family of tornadoes and the downburst winds that followed.
- When this surge of air, or downburst, hits earth, it spreads out rapidly in all directions, creating a zone of wind shear.