AUSTIN, Texas — A destructive supercell storm tore through the Austin area on Wednesday, leaving behind widespread wind and hail damage, along with flooding caused by extremely high rainfall rates.

It all starts with the development of a thunderstorm and the water droplets/hailstones being suspended within the updraft. When the updrafts weaken, it is no longer capable of holding the large core ...

Some Austinites had never heard the word “microburst” until Wednesday night, but they definitely felt one. A sudden, violent ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After a drier and hotter than usual trend hit Arizona mid-summer, the state has been getting a wetter end to the monsoon with ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — It appears several microbursts hammered parts of the Valley Wednesday night, leading to downed trees, power outages, and other damage in the Phoenix metro area. But how do ...

PHOENIX — Team Rubicon, a veteran-led group that provides humanitarian aid, is in Tempe this week assisting with cleanup after a major microburst storm earlier this month. Thirty members of the ...

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 ...

The whole reason we got into learning about microbursts was because of a specific type of them that can be caused by virga and those are called “dry microbursts.” The only real difference between dry ...

After a drier and hotter than usual trend hit Arizona mid-summer, the state has been getting a wetter end to the monsoon with thunderstorms, hail, strong winds and heavy downpours — as well as ...

Many people are familiar with the term “straight-line winds”, but do you know what causes them? The answer is a “Microburst.” A microburst is a column of rapidly sinking air within a thunderstorm that ...