Damaging, non-tornadic thunderstorm winds, otherwise known as straight-line winds, take on many different forms and have different causes. Sometimes, a line of storms forms a structure that allows ...

WASHINGTON — Strong storms Monday have officials warning of dangerous conditions across the D.C. region. Damaging wind is the biggest threat from the storms expected until 10 p.m. Widespread gusts ...

The Chicago area could see widely scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday afternoon, with damaging “downburst winds” and quarter-size hail possible. Storms were forming in the western portions of ...

This week’s weather coverage here in South Florida has been all about the Saharan air layer: the dust that follows the same winds that hurricanes follow from Africa all the way over to the United ...

Thunderstorms can come with many different hazards and one of those hazards is a downburst. A downburst is the collapse of a thunderstorm that produces a lot of wind energy. Strong thunderstorms ...

DALLAS — The damaging winds Monday in the Fort Worth Stockyards and Lancaster might have come as a surprise to the rest of North Texas, which, for the most part, saw a sunny, warm July day. But the ...

The National Weather Service said that a downburst is a strong, downward-moving current of air known as a downdraft that leads to damaging winds on or near the ground. Microburst and macroburst ...

Last week we had a feature clearly visible on our Hutchinson SkyView camera. It was a downburst! During our late summer months around Kansas, we get into the downburst season. It takes a strong ...

The National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, N.J., conducted a survey in Delaware County on Friday hours after a severe thunderstorm caused significant property damage in parts of the county.