There are several types of damaging wind storms, including tornadoes, downbursts, microbursts, gust fronts, derechos and haboobs. |
At the time, I was looking for software to visualize my 3-D model data of microbursts, severe downdrafts that sometimes descend from thunderstorm clouds. |
Changes in wind direction associated with turbulence, caused by weather fronts, thunderstorms, microbursts, etc. |
This distinguishes tornadoes from microbursts, which often do tornado-like damage and are often mistaken for tornadoes. |
Yes, but the sensors were calibrated to detect microbursts which have much shorter wavelengths. |
In addition to damaging buildings and blowing down trees, microbursts blasting down to the ground are a major aviation hazard and have caused several crashes. |