WASHINGTON — Strong storms Monday have officials warning of dangerous conditions across the D.C. region. Damaging wind is the biggest threat from the storms expected until 10 p.m. Widespread gusts ...

Damaging, non-tornadic thunderstorm winds, otherwise known as straight-line winds, take on many different forms and have different causes. Sometimes, a line of storms forms a structure that allows ...

The Chicago area could see widely scattered showers and thunderstorms Saturday afternoon, with damaging “downburst winds” and quarter-size hail possible. Storms were forming in the western portions of ...

A video out of Nevada shows a monsoonal shower collapsing in on itself, creating what we call a downburst or a microburst. This occurs when dry air begins to mix into rainfall in a thunderstorm, ...

DALLAS — The damaging winds Monday in the Fort Worth Stockyards and Lancaster might have come as a surprise to the rest of North Texas, which, for the most part, saw a sunny, warm July day. But the ...

Downburst winds happen as rain-cooled air from a collapsing thunderstorm hits the ground and spreads out fiercely in all directions. Unlike a tornado or dust devil, downburst winds do not rotate. They ...

Thunderstorms can come with many different hazards and one of those hazards is a downburst. A downburst is the collapse of a thunderstorm that produces a lot of wind energy. Strong thunderstorms ...