Sentence examples for a single thunderstorm from inspiring English sources

Within a single thunderstorm, there are updrafts and downdrafts and a variety of cloud particles and precipitation.

He introduced the concept of the tornado "family," a sequence of tornadoes, each with a unique path, produced by a single thunderstorm over a few hours.

Officials attribute the lower figures to fewer lightning strikes, which can spark hundreds of fires in a single thunderstorm, and to the addition of least 5,200 firefighters who were hired this year after Congress approved financing of $1.4 billion.

Aircraft and radar measurements show that a single thunderstorm cell extends to an altitude of 8,000 to 10,000 metres (26,000 to 33,000 feet) and lasts about 30 minutes.

This term technically applies to a single thunderstorm with one main updraft.

Now I feel as if any single thunderstorm could kill everyone I know and love.

Blaise Thresher's fans include Mike Skinner who wants to remix her new single, "Thunderstorm", out next month.

In 2009 the teams intercepted a single tornado-producing thunderstorm; in 2010, however, VORTEX2 researchers gathered data on at least 30 rotating thunderstorms and 20 tornadoes, including one of a series that ripped across Oklahoma during a major tornado outbreak on May 10.

In squall lines, thunderstorms form in an organized line and create a single, continuous gust front (the leading edge of a storm's outflow from its downdraft).

"In order to show viewers the extraordinary spectacle of a dirty thunderstorm with lightning flashes that would be impossible to capture in a single camera, a composite image was put together from footage from two Patagonian volcanoes.

Dry thunderstorms generated 75,000 lightning strikes that sparked more than 400 new forest fires across the West in a single day, federal fire coordinators said today.