Dry microbursts occur when rain falls from a cloud and lands into a dry layer of air, causing it to evaporate. With evaporation, NWS said the air cools, becomes dense and moves toward the ground ...

Twice this week, a phenomenon known as a microburst has caused wind gusts at an airport to approach or exceed its all-time records. Microbursts, which occur during thunderstorms, are much more common ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Have you ever been driving and noticed a thunderstorm pouring in just one spot, while it’s completely dry everywhere else? Odds are, we all have -- as localized ...

PHOENIX - Various parts of the Valley are cleaning up once again, after a severe storm moved across the Phoenix area on Oct. 13. The storm managed to cause some damage, with officials with the ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Small storms in this hot environment have kicked up isolated wind damage, leading some to wonder if they have been hit by a microburst. Microbursts happen when a large ...

Active morning out there, especially around Shirley. Let me take you to some video that we shot earlier from Sky 5, and what I want to show you here are the trees. You notice that they're all the ones ...

Wind damage, whether from straight-line winds, a microburst, or a tornado, is impactful. But the damage from straight-line winds and microbursts is often mistaken for a tornado. When a storm does ...

“It must have been a tornado” is a phrase often exclaimed as people first inspect severe storm wind damage. Then, if the meteorological storm survey concludes that it was, in fact, not a tornado that ...

With trees down, power outages and debris scattered across Tempe, it seemed like a tornado touched down in the area.

FARGO — Midland, Texas, recorded a wind gust up to 111 mph April 22 without a storm. The high wind was an unusually strong dry microburst. Microbursts typically happen when a thunderstorm produces a ...

"We saw rainfall upwards of half an inch in 10 to 15 minutes," a National Weather Service meteorologist told The Arizona Republic.

A microburst caused damage in Milesburg on Saturday, including to a barn on Johnson Hill Road. Adrianna Cohen Photo provided The storm that caused damage to trees and buildings near Milesburg on ...