Sentences with downbursts
- Tornadoes, downbursts, and straight-line winds arising from severe thunderstorms have long perturbed the forests of southeastern Arkansas, producing dramatic localized effects.
- Waterspouts are basically tornadoes that are over water, and downbursts are violent gusts of winds blowing directly downwards from the storm cloud.
- Downdraughts can be accelerated on its path by evaporation, and this can cause downbursts to occur.
- Mircobursts are similar to downbursts, but only smaller.
- If the downburst is concentrated in an area less than 2.5 miles in diameter, it is called a microburst.
- Lines of thunderstorms that cause one downburst after another are called derechoes.