Sentence examples for windstorm from inspiring English sources

The windstorm that rolled in over nearby mountains produced giant waves that also ripped to pieces a floating plastic dock at a nearby Boy Scout camp.

It works closely with state and film industry officials to provide shooting locations for Hollywood.Since its creation more than 40 years ago, the Stuhr Museum has worked even harder than Dorothy's windstorm in "The Wizard of Oz" to transport 100 original frontier buildings to Grand Island, where they have been arranged into authentic towns for filming.

This type of windstorm also produces dangerous wind chills.

A strong, warm windstorm is called a chinook in the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada, a foehn in the European Alps, and a zonda in the Andes Mountains of Argentina.

A windstorm that travels in a straight line and is caused by the gust front (the boundary between descending cold air and warm air at the surface) of an approaching thunderstorm is called a derecho.

In addition, r-selected species thrive in disturbed habitats, such as freshly burned grasslands or forests characterized by canopies that open abruptly, such as when a forest's tallest trees have been knocked down by a windstorm.

On August 13 a sudden violent windstorm toppled stage scaffolding at the Indiana State Fair moments before contemporary country duo Sugarland was to perform.

Wind speeds during a windstorm typically exceed 55 km (34 miles) per hour.

She has been at the center of at least three public firestorms — for removing consumer protections in health insurance rules approved by her predecessor, for attending a campaign fund-raiser held by an insurance company and for suggesting that the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association raise premium rates.

Coastal residents became concerned when Ms. Kitzman advised the board of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, which provides insurance along the coast when private insurers are not available, to hire a third party to conduct an analysis of the possibility of raising premium rates territorially, depending on the level of risk to an area.

At 1 30 p.m. the show "Blown Away by Poetry," by Liz Parker and Rachel Sullivan, will engage young audience members in helping Wendy Windstorm restore verse to Poetsville after she's blown it all away.