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The rear part of the storm is where tornadoes are likely to spawn as the downdraft in the flanking line meets the rotating updraft.
It is caused by the tremendous updraft and downdraft winds within the thunderstorm.
There was no one to overhear them save a speckled chicken hawk circling lazily on the updraft from the mountain.
A solitary chicken hawk circled so slowly on a high updraft of air that he looked to be hanging motionless, a small brown kite.
Once ignited, the updraft of air within the flue will feed this chimney fire, causing it to grow rapidly and producing very high temperatures.
After noting a distinct updraft and some rather severe hail, I was almost certain we were about to be hit by a tornado.
The large hawks, called Buteos, often drift overhead without flapping their wings while they ride an updraft of warm air, known as a thermal.
A blonde was scurrying across the parking lot, her hair caught in the updraft of the wind.
A strong updraft allows hailstones to grow large enough to reach the ground.
The best view of a mesocyclone is normally from a location east of the updraft, looking west.
Various different temperatures and wind interactions at different altitudes can cause a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone.
When I related to them how, on one jump, I was caught in a thermal updraft and was actually going up instead of down, they laughed in disbelief.
Normally, the air that's moving down, called a downdraft, shares the thunderstorm with the updraft.
Within this area, a particularly strong updraft can produce a small vortex that appears as a funnel.
The structuring of older roofs was designed to take into account that the heat updraft would melt the snow, thereby reducing excess accumulation.
The updraft keeps millions of water droplets in suspension until they become so heavy that they fall as rain.
The cloud reaches the tropopause which blocks the updraft, forcing the stream of air to spread out horizontally.
The power of the rising air, or updraft, keeps millions of water droplets in suspension until they become so heavy they fall as rain.
Upon reaching the bottom of the cloud, some of the ice pellets are carried by an updraft back up to the top of the storm.
Why it continued to rotate cyclonically after it shifted to the center of the updraft troika is a matter of conjecture because of the paucity of data in the storm inflow.
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And no patch of blue sky ever looked so good as that sky above the mountain, swept clean of the rain curtain by the updraft.
The updraft gave out and the rate of climb meter began to register a drop.
I could stand to have another hit ready when updraft petered out.
Parodisiac was much too good to hold for the closing of updraft.
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