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  2. Wind gust - Wikipedia

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    Wind gust speeds during Storm Abigail in November 2015 Sound of wind blowing in a pine forest at around 25 m/sec, with gust alterations. A wind gust or just gust is a brief, sudden increase in the wind speed. It usually lasts for less than 20 seconds, briefer than a squall, which lasts minutes. A gust is followed by a lull (or slackening) in ...

  3. Derecho - Wikipedia

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    A wind storm must meet the following criteria: [4] Wind damage swath extending for more than 400 miles (640 km) Wind gusts of at least 58 miles per hour (26 m/s; 50 kn) along most of its length; Several, well-separated 75 miles per hour (34 m/s; 65 kn) or greater gusts; Prior to January 11, 2022, the definition for a derecho was: [12]

  4. Wind - Wikipedia

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    Wind pressures are positive on the windward side of a structure and negative on the leeward side. Infrequent wind gusts can cause poorly designed suspension bridges to sway. When wind gusts are at a similar frequency to the swaying of the bridge, the bridge can be destroyed more easily, such as what occurred with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in ...

  5. Downburst - Wikipedia

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    The winds can gust to 58 m/s (130 mph) [11] and winds of 26 m/s (58 mph) or more can last for more than twenty minutes. [12] In the United States, such straight-line wind events are most common during the spring when instability is highest and weather fronts routinely cross the country.

  6. Wind speed - Wikipedia

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    The fastest wind speed not related to tornadoes ever recorded was during the passage of Tropical Cyclone Olivia on 10 April 1996: an automatic weather station on Barrow Island, Australia, registered a maximum wind gust of 113.3 m/s (408 km/h; 253 mph; 220.2 kn; 372 ft/s) [6] [7] The wind gust was evaluated by the WMO Evaluation Panel, who found ...

  7. Squall - Wikipedia

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    The term "squall" is used to refer to a sudden wind-speed increase lasting minutes. In 1962 the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) defined that to be classified as a "squall", the wind must increase at least 8 metres per second (29 km/h; 18 mph) and must attain a top speed of at least 11 metres per second (40 km/h; 25 mph), lasting at least one minute in duration.

  8. Severe weather terminology (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Wind advisory NPW – Strong sustained winds of 31 to 39 miles per hour (50 to 63 km/h) for one hour or longer and/or wind gusts of 46 to 57 miles per hour (74 to 92 km/h) for any duration are expected within the next 12 to 24 hours. Wind speeds may pose a hazard to pedestrian and vehicular travel, topple and/or create flying debris from ...

  9. 2021–22 European windstorm season - Wikipedia

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    Strongest wind gust: Malik 236 km/h (147 mph) Total storms: 23: Total damage >€3.63 billion ($3.90 billion) / (£3.06 billion) Total fatalities: 73 dead, 25 injured, 3 missing: 1 Strongest storm is determined by lowest pressure and maximum recorded non-mountainous wind gust is also included for reference.