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    In meteorology, a downburst is a strong downward and outward gushing wind system that emanates from a point source above and blows radially, that is,...
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    throughout the world. Special threats from thunderstorms include hail, downbursts, and tornadoes. There are a few general archetypes of atmospheric instability...
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  • Downburst is the seventh studio album by the German metal band Brainstorm, released on 25 January 2008. Former bassist Andreas Mailänder left the band...
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    hazardous. Damage that results from thunderstorms is mainly inflicted by downburst winds, large hailstones, and flash flooding caused by heavy precipitation...
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    that at 3.50 CEST Bayesian was already struggling against the storm — or downburst, as the Italian prosecutor later specified — and then began to drag its...
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    clouds are commonly associated with severe weather, including heavy rain, downbursts, and occasionally a tornado. A cumulonimbus incus is a mature thunderstorm...
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    air currents behind the squall line, and could come in the form of a downburst. The size of the bow may vary, and the storms associated with the bow...
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    season in the middle latitudes. A dust storm caused by a cumulonimbus downburst is a haboob. Cumulonimbus are a notable hazard to aviation due most importantly...
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    precipitation, and wildfires are forms and effects, as are thunderstorms, downbursts, tornadoes, waterspouts, tropical cyclones, and extratropical cyclones...
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    the Fujita scale of tornado intensity and damage, he also discovered downbursts and microbursts and was an instrumental figure in advancing modern understanding...
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    sparked decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft. The concept of downbursts was not yet understood when Flight...
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  • local low-level mechanical lifting such as the lifting generated by a downburst. The two last phenomena can overcome a stable air zone close to the surface...
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  • version X4 but before X9. Downburst - In the film, his superpowers are given by Syndrome's Operation Kronos files as gaseous downburst, but in the "NSA Files"...
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  • Windstorm (gradient pressure induced) Severe thunderstorm (hailstorm, downburst: microbursts and macrobursts) Air pollution Extreme weather List of weather-related...
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    season Harmattan Wet season Storms Cloud Cumulonimbus cloud Arcus cloud Downburst Microburst Heat burst Derecho Lightning Volcanic lightning Thunderstorm...
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    This can cause flash flooding. Strong wind; gale-force winds from a downburst may occur under this cloud. "capillatus". Oxford Reference. Oxford University...
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    a Japanese meteorologist well known for his studies on tornadoes and downburst, and the invention of the Fujita scale. He first studied the nuclear bomb...
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  • likely associated with tornadoes and other severe phenomenons as hail and downbursts. Radar is always available, in places and times where spotters are not...
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    altitude can compressionally heat as it falls, and result in a gusty downburst which may substantially and rapidly warm the surface temperature. This...
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    causing tornadic activity. Strong versions of these features known as downbursts can be generated in environments of vertical wind shear and mid-level...
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    front tornado, is a small, vertical swirl associated with a gust front or downburst. Because they are not connected with a cloud base, there is some debate...
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    season Harmattan Wet season Storms Cloud Cumulonimbus cloud Arcus cloud Downburst Microburst Heat burst Derecho Lightning Volcanic lightning Thunderstorm...
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    specialist, James Lushine, stated "during very unstable weather conditions the downburst of cold air from aloft can hit the surface like a bomb, exploding outward...
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    gustnado is a brief, shallow surface-based vortex which forms within the downburst emanating from a thunderstorm. The name is a portmanteau by elision of...
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    season Harmattan Wet season Storms Cloud Cumulonimbus cloud Arcus cloud Downburst Microburst Heat burst Derecho Lightning Volcanic lightning Thunderstorm...
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    event in Newburgh, New York variously described as either a tornado or a downburst 30 1997 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak Tornado outbreak Central Texas...
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    then possibly damaging microbursts are possible as sinking air forms. Downburst Shower Wikimedia Commons has media related to Praecipitatio. "Rain Shaft...
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    a powerful bowing mesoscale convective system that brought widespread downburst wind gusts of over 75 mph (121 km/h) and peaking at 105 mph (169 km/h)...
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    echo" was first used by Theodore Fujita in his May 1978 paper "Manual of Downburst Identification for Project NIMROD." In 2004, research was done to better...
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    Retrieved August 29, 2016. Smith, Mike (July 2, 2014). "Defeating the downburst: 20 years since last U.S. commercial jet accident from wind shear". The...
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