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A severe thunderstorm warning indicates the warned area is in impending danger from hail or wind speeds meeting warning criteria as well as from lightning and hydrological impacts associated with the storm cell. Severe thunderstorms can and occasionally do produce tornadoes without warning. [2] While not all severe thunderstorms produce ...
Particularly dangerous situation. In weather forecasting in the United States, " particularly dangerous situation " ( PDS) is enhanced wording used by the National Weather Service to convey special urgency in some watch or warning messages for unusually extreme and life-threatening severe weather events, above and beyond the average severity ...
A watch is not required for a thunderstorm- or other hydrological-based weather warning to be issued; severe thunderstorm warnings are often issued when a severe thunderstorm watch is not active (i.e., when a tornado watch is active or, less frequently, if severe convective storms are not expected to be of broad enough coverage to require a watch).
On Wednesday at 3:40 p.m. the National Weather Service issued an updated severe thunderstorm warning for Collin and Hunt counties. The storms are expected to bring half-dollar-sized hail (1.25 ...
Meteorologists were tracking severe thunderstorms moving through parts of western central Oklahoma Sunday. The National Weather Service in Norman confirmed a severe storm that produced a tornado ...
Show comments. On May 12, 2023, Extreme Meteorologist Reed Timmer and his team accomplished an exceptionally difficult task -- intercepting a tornado in an armored vehicle. The terrifying and ...
A severe thunderstorm warning is issued if a thunderstorm becomes severe, or will soon turn severe. In Canada, a rainfall rate greater than 50 millimetres (2 in) in one hour, or 75 millimetres (3 in) in three hours, is also used to indicate severe thunderstorms. Severe thunderstorms can occur from any type of storm cell. However, multicell ...
February 8, 2024 at 3:30 PM. San Luis Obispo County weathered a ferocious storm — including a now confirmed tornado — Wednesday as high winds and rain pulled down trees and closed roads. South ...