These microbursts can be dry or wet. Essentially, when conditions are right, a large core of rain/hail inside the thunderstorm smashes into the ground and spreads out. The position that is first ...

A microburst on July 30 damaged the City of Orangeburg. Buildings had their windows blown out, roofs blown off, and bricks crumbled. Two weeks later, the city is almost back to normal, with ...

In a microburst, cold, dense air shoots down from a thunderstorm, pushing outward in all directions upon hitting the ground like water from a pitcher poured onto a table, sometimes as though the ...