| If the downburst is concentrated in an area less than 2.5 miles in diameter, it is called a microburst. |
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| Lines of thunderstorms that cause one downburst after another are called derechoes. |
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| The star pattern is usually indicative of a downburst or a microburst while the spiral is usually produced by a weak tornado. |
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| On May 12, a tornado-like two-minute downburst tore into Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. |
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| Unblessed in a downburst, I lostmy leafy summer, my lovely,my crest, my crown. |
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| The analysis revealed that there was a downburst approximately 8 km to the northeast of Runway 24L at the time of the accident. |
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| Other areas around Amherstburg also experienced some minor damage due to downburst winds of approximately 90 to 100 kilometres per hour. |
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| A downburst is a concentrated, severe downdraft which accompanies a descending column of precipitation underneath the cell. |
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| The gust front is the leading edge of any downburst and can run many miles ahead of the storm. |
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| In the wild night, straight-line downburst winds matched the velocities of F1 tornadoes. |
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| His maps of complex damage patterns aided his identification of a previously undiscovered phenomena, the downburst and the microburst. |
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| When they finally arrived, teams were greeted with a downburst of rain, rapidly dropping the temperature from a hot 90F to a cool 60-70F and turning the desert sands into mud. |
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| The winds created by the downburst were analysed using both Doppler and reflective data from the radar as well as wind information from anemometers and other standard meteorological data. |
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