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storm warning

[stawrm wawr-ning] / ˈstɔrm ˌwɔr nɪŋ /


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A winter storm warning is in effect until 5 p.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 13, 2025

The rains caused by the storm are already beginning to hit the south-eastern Bahamas, and the Turk and Caicos Islands, where a tropical storm warning is in effect.

From BBC • Aug. 18, 2025

A winter storm warning remains in effect for the Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara county mountains through 5 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 14, 2025

The agency issued a rare severe geomagnetic storm warning when a solar outburst reached Earth on Friday afternoon, hours sooner than anticipated.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024

A storm warning, or reasonable prediction of a gale from the inferences of observed meteorological instruments and phenomena.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir