When the thunderstorm struck, I didn't think twice about the split tree.
When a thunderstorm strikes, the airport and schools can be closed and traffic redirected from this single centre.
A strong thunderstorm struck the area around Denton County, Tex., producing wind as high as 50 miles an hour and damaging some homes.
Outside, an unexpected thunderstorm struck, releasing steam from the hot asphalt and leaving many pedestrians in wet T-shirts and soggy shoes.
In the face of widespread skepticism among his colleagues, Fujita insisted that these damage patterns were the products of columns of air descending rapidly from a thunderstorm, striking the surface, and then flowing out in all directions.
But on Aug. 2, when an unusually powerful thunderstorm struck, a 25-year-old Manhattan man was struck and killed by a bolt of lightning on the roof of a six-story apartment building on Broome Street, on the edge of Chinatown.
Round one of the Malaysian Open was also disrupted when a thunderstorm struck the area.
The device has to be able to withstand the extreme conditions of Antarctica but hostile weather of a different kind challenged the team: a thunderstorm struck while the engineers were out on a boat in the middle of the water.
A sudden thunderstorm striking a parking lot that has been sitting in hot sunshine (where surface temperatures of 120°F are not unheard of) can easily yield a 10°F increase in rainfall temperature.
(Not to mention that we had to return before afternoon thunderstorms strike the peak).
Thunderstorms strike Texas often, especially the eastern and northern portions of the state.
