THUNDERSTORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thunderstorm mean? 

• THUNDERSTORM (noun)
  The noun THUNDERSTORM has 1 sense:

1. a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning

  Familiarity information: THUNDERSTORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THUNDERSTORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

electric storm; electrical storm; thunderstorm

Hypernyms ("thunderstorm" is a kind of...):

storm; violent storm (a violent weather condition with winds 64-72 knots (11 on the Beaufort scale) and precipitation and thunder and lightning)

 Context examples 

“And I,” said the mother, “I feel so uneasy, as if a heavy thunderstorm were coming.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But the formation of thunderstorms at night, when the sun is not baking the land, is less well understood.

(Scientists tackle mystery of thunderstorms that strike at night, NSF)

Hurricanes produce high winds, heavy rains and thunderstorms.

(Hurricanes, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I have had some experience of him in other moods, however, and shall be the less surprised when the thunderstorms suddenly come up amidst the sunshine.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Because our equator bears the brunt of this sunshine, warm moist air rises (through convection) more freely there, which fuels towering thunderstorms that produce lightning.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

Weather such as heavy rain, thunderstorms, or hurricanes can cause flooding.

(Floods, Federal Emergency Management Agency)

GOES-R data will help improve hurricane tracking and intensity forecasts, the prediction and warnings of severe weather, including tornadoes and thunderstorms.

(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)

Although analysis is ongoing, most waves are expected to be atmospheric gravity waves - up-and-down ripples that form in the atmosphere above something that disturbs air flow, such as a thunderstorm updraft, disruptions of flow around other features, or from some other disturbance that JunoCam does not detect.

(NASA's Juno Mission Detects Jupiter Wave Trains, NASA)

Their analysis shows that condensation around tiny particles significantly increased cloud formation and warmed the surrounding air, intensifying the so-called deep convective cloud systems that are responsible for causing thunderstorms in the Amazonian tropics.

(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)