A macroburst is larger than a microburst- the diameter has to be over 2.5 miles on the ground. Winds tend to be a little bit weaker with a macroburst, though the damage can be even greater due to the ...

It’s not uncommon during stronger storms to see wind gusts reach 30 miles per hour. The danger comes when microbursts and straight-line winds enter heavily wooded areas. The first big spring ...

On Friday evening May 2nd severe thunderstorms were moving through the Finger Lakes that caused severe wind damage in ...

Midland, Texas, recorded a wind gust up to 111 mph April 22 without a storm. The high wind was an unusually strong dry ...

STORM LAKE, Iowa -- A powerful storm that moved through Storm Lake early Friday morning uprooted trees and toppled power lines, leaving the Buena Vista community without power for much of the day ...

A perfect storm of storms swept across southwestern Pennsylvania Tuesday. It wasn’t a tornado. It wasn’t a microburst. It was ...

A series of thunderstorms that swept through southern Quebec on Tuesday evening left a teenage boy in critical condition in ...

The storm caused significant damage that impacted power to several Near North District School Board schools. Closures had ...

Severe thunderstorms cut power to thousands in Ohio and brought damaging wind and hail. Did they spawn any tornadoes? Here's ...

Individuals and businesses who were affected negatively by the April 19 microburst storm that cut power and downed trees and ...

A rare 'virga bomb' caused a record 111 mph wind gust in Midland, highlighting the unpredictability of spring weather.

Microbursts, which occur during thunderstorms, are much more common than tornadoes. Air cooled inside a thunderstorm can fall suddenly to the ground, spreading out in a circle around the storm and ...