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Chicago’s greatest risk for strong thunderstorms and possible tornadoes will occur Tuesday evening. The risk for severe thunderstorms will decrease by Wednesday as the storm spreads into the East.
Robust thunderstorms moved across the Gulf states on Monday and Monday night and according to the Storm Prediction Center, 17 damaging wind reports stretched from eastern Texas to far western ...
Thunderstorm asthma is the triggering of an asthma attack by environmental conditions directly caused by a local thunderstorm. During a thunderstorm, pollen grains can absorb moisture and then burst into much smaller fragments with these fragments being easily dispersed by wind.
Regardless, thunderstorms are still expected over a large swath of the Southeast, with a continued risk for downpours, gusty winds and an isolated tornado," said Deger.
Strong and destructive tornadoes form most frequently in the United States, Brazil, Bangladesh and Eastern India, but they can occur almost anywhere under the right conditions. Tornadoes also develop occasionally in southern Canada during the Northern Hemisphere 's summer and somewhat regularly at other times of the year across Europe, Asia ...
[10] [11] In the special case of a supercell thunderstorm, but also occasionally with intense multicellular thunderstorms such as the QLCS above, the wall cloud will often be seen to be rotating. A rotating wall cloud is the area of the thunderstorm that is most likely to produce tornadoes, and the vast majority of intense tornadoes.
Along with the heavy rain, there is the risk of locally gusty thunderstorms as the system moves through the region, including the chance for a few strong thunderstorms with damaging winds.
Later that day, a strong semi-discrete supercell thunderstorm embedded within a Mesoscale Convective System developed, and produced a strong, long-tracked F3 wedge tornado that moved through Carvoeiro, Lagoa and Silves, Portugal, killing one person and injuring 13 others. Multiple concrete-frame apartment buildings and homes had heavy exterior ...