microburst

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Her cabin was damaged not by the July 14 storm, but by a subsequent microburst 10 days later that ripped through Wonder Valley, an unincorporated community on the outskirts of Twentynine Palms.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

“This was not a microburst — just a broad straight-line wind event that swept over a huge area,” Grigsby said.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2021

And maybe in some cosmically meaningless way, it was the kind of microburst of entertainment that could make a time of sequestered disconnection a bit more bearable.

From Washington Post • Aug. 4, 2020

The weather service said a microburst of straight-line winds caused most of the damage in a larger area in town north and west of the tornado.

From Washington Times • Jul. 29, 2014

Officials initially had reported that a microburst hit the city but later corrected that to say it was a macroburst, because it was more than 2 1/2-miles long.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2010