Sentence examples for thunderstorm strikes from inspiring English sources

When a thunderstorm strikes, the airport and schools can be closed and traffic redirected from this single centre.

When a positron produced by a thunderstorm strikes an electron on the satellite, it releases gamma rays with a characteristic energy of 511,000 electron-volts.

When the thunderstorm struck, I didn't think twice about the split tree.

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.

The first wave of thunderstorms struck the South Australian coastline, capital, and areas north of Adelaide late Wedesday morning, and a second, heavier storm front passed through late Wednesday afternoon.