List of severe weather phenomena
Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property.
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Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
- Cold wave
- Cyclone (generic)
- extratropical cyclone or weather bomb
- weather front
- subtropical cyclone
- storm
- Medicane
- Fog
- Explosive cyclogenesis
- gale
- Heat wave
- heat burst
- Hurricane
- Severe thunderstorm (hailstorm, downburst: microburst/macroburst)
- shelf cloud
- gust front
- squall
- Tornado (also colloquially referred to as a "whirlwind" or "twister")
- landspout
- gustnado
- Tropical cyclone (also called a hurricane, typhoon, or "cyclone")
- Windstorm (gradient pressure induced)
Phenomena not caused by thunderstorms
Fire
- Wildfire or bushfire (ignition of wildfires is sometimes by lightning strike, especially in "dry thunderstorms")
- Firestorm
- Fire whirl, also called firenado and fire tornado
Inundation
Oceans and bodies of water
Rain
- Blood rain
- Drought, a water supply failure, often caused caused by persistent lack of, or reduced, rainfall
- Floods
- Red rain
Surface movement
- Avalanche
- Mass wasting and landslips
Wind
Other
- Heat lightning
- Zud, widespread livestock death, mainly by starvation, caused by climatic conditions
Phenomena caused by severe thunderstorms
- Extreme wind (70 mph or greater)
- rain
- Flood, flash flood coastal flooding
- Hail
- High winds – 93 km/h(58 mph) or higher.
- Lightning
- Thundersnow, snowsquall
- Tornadoes
- downpour
See also
- Extreme weather
- List of weather-related phenomena
- Meteorology
- Severe weather terminology (United States)
- Space weather
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