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, ...

Rainfall overnight Thursday prompted flood warnings in parts of West Virginia and hazardous driving conditions in others Friday. West Virginia Capitol hosts Career Tech Education Day at the ...

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 ...

The National Weather Service said that a downburst is a strong, downward-moving current of air known as a downdraft that leads to damaging winds on or near the ground. Microburst and macroburst ...