The hazardous weather associated with thunderstorms will be the topic of this chapter. People are often most interested in the damaging aspects of severe weather, as these most directly impact human activity, and often produce beautiful and terrifying visual displays. Thunderstorms can produce damaging surface winds, hail, heavy rain, and even extreme phenomena like tornadoes. However, thunderstorms almost always produce precipitation along with the required thunder and lightning, and many other aspects that can be hazardous. In fact, a climatological thunderstorm day is defined as any day on which thunder is audible from an observing station, and precipitation is not a required element. IntroductionĪ thunderstorm is generally defined as any storm that has thunder and lighting. Lightning interacts with a tornado in Texas ( CC BY-SA 4.0).
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