COLUMBIA, S.C. — According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), lightning strikes the United States ...

The word “supercell” may sound like hype, but they are real thunderstorms with rotating updrafts that can have serious ...

Over the past 24 hours, the Atlas Mountains, their eastern slopes, and southeastern Morocco have been hit by severe weather, ...

A supercell is a unique type of thunderstorm characterized by ... The dynamic interaction between updrafts and downdrafts is essential for the formation of severe weather, including the ...

they are not usually severe because warm and humid air is so prevalent throughout the lower and mid-levels of the atmosphere that there is less tendency for thunderstorm updrafts to become strong.

These gigantic storms contain volatile updrafts and downdrafts that can move at speeds of 100 mph. The height of these storms also can tower to more than 10 miles in the air. Even if you stacked ...

A warm and humid air mass will help create on-and-off rain and storms much of the day. Lightning delays are possible across ...

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm outlook Wednesday ... especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable atmosphere, according to the weather service.

A bigger hail stone signifies a longer lifespan within the cloud, which also signifies a strong thunderstorm with strong updrafts. Hail can cause significant damage. Tornadoes are possible.

Jovian storms can rework the whole chemical makeup ... and his colleagues just needed to figure out what kinds of updrafts, downdrafts and heat transfer could best explain what Juno, Hubble ...