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Cumulonimbus storm cells can produce torrential rain of a convective nature (often in the form of a rain shaft) and flash flooding, as well as straight-line winds. Most storm cells die after about 20 minutes, when the precipitation causes more downdraft than updraft, causing the energy to dissipate.
Any form of thunderstorm that produces precipitating hailstones is known as a hailstorm. [58] ... Tropical cyclones may produce torrential rain, high waves, ...
Precipitation is measured using a rain gauge, and more recently remote sensing techniques such as a weather radar. When classified according to the rate of precipitation, rain can be divided into categories. Light rain describes rainfall which falls at a rate of between a trace and 2.5 millimetres (0.098 in) per hour. Moderate rain describes ...
A line of storms in the central U.S. could unleash tornadoes and a barrage of dangerous conditions on Wednesday, meteorologists warn. Tornadoes, hail, torrential rain threaten central US states as ...
Blood rain; Cold drop (Spanish: gota fría; archaic as a meteorological term), colloquially, any high impact rainfall event along the Mediterranean coast of Spain; Drought, a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall; Floods. Flash flood; Rainstorm; Red rain in Kerala (for related phenomena ...
The same storm system that began producing severe weather and torrential rain in the southern United States Monday will pivot northeastward and is poised to set off severe thunderstorms from the ...
Showers and thunderstorms are gathering from the western Caribbean Sea to the southwestern Gulf of Mexico at midweek. ... inundated roads from torrential rain in cities such as Cape Coral, Fort ...
Organized thunderstorms and thunderstorm clusters/lines can have longer life cycles as they form in environments of significant vertical wind shear, normally greater than 25 knots (13 m/s) in the lowest 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) of the troposphere, [21] which aids the development of stronger updrafts as well as various forms of severe weather.