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A severe thunderstorm swept across Central Kentucky on Tuesday morning, leaving thousands without power and damage across Lexington.. The National Weather Service has confirmed six EF-1 tornadoes ...
A post-Christmas severe weather event put more than 10 million people at risk for damaging thunderstorms across part of the south-central United States. ... There were multiple pictures and videos ...
Lightning injuries are divided into direct strikes, side splash, contact injury, and ground current. [1] Ground current occurs when the lightning strikes nearby and travels to the person through the ground. [1] Side splash makes up about a third of cases and occurs when lightning strikes nearby and jumps through the air to the person. [1]
The storm left around 12,000 people without power in the state, according to USA TODAY's data. Contributing: Cybele Mayes-Osterman , Thao Nguyen ; USA TODAY Julia is a trending reporter for USA TODAY.
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
The derecho over Indiana on June 29. Composite radar image as the storm moved from Indiana to Virginia. The June 2012 Mid-Atlantic and Midwest derecho was one of the deadliest and most destructive fast-moving severe thunderstorm complexes in North American history.
Jun. 6—Lightning set fire to two homes in the same New Hampshire city minutes apart this week, a dramatic start to the severe weather season. A powerful storm thundered through Portsmouth on ...
Lightning: this storm cloud is capable of producing bursts of cloud-to-ground lightning. Hail: hailstones may fall from this cloud if it is a highly unstable environment (which favours a more vigorous storm updraft). Heavy rain: this cloud may drop several inches (centimetres) of rain in a short amount of time. This can cause flash flooding.