List of severe weather phenomena
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Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property.
Examples
Severe weather can occur under a variety of situations, but three characteristics are generally needed: a temperature or moisture boundary, moisture, and (in the event of severe, precipitation-based events) instability in the atmosphere.
- Cyclone (generic)
- Fog
- Ice fog
- sea fret
- Heat wave
- Cold wave
- Severe thunderstorm (hailstorm, downburst: microburst/macroburst)
- Tornado (also colloquially referred to as a "whirlwind" or "twister")
- Tropical cyclone (also called a hurricane, typhoon, or "cyclone")
- Windstorm (gradient pressure induced) bora winds, Katabatic wind, Santa Ana winds
- Winter storms
Phenomena not caused by thunderstorms
- Avalanche
- Blizzard
- Drought
- Dust storm, haboob, Dust devil, snow devil, steam devil
- Landslide, mudslide
- Flood, flash flood
- Wildfire, firestorm
- High Seas
- Zud
- ice
- black ice
- bora winds, Katabatic wind, Santa Ana winds
Phenomena caused by severe thunderstorms
- Large Hail
- High winds – 93 km/h(58 mph) or higher.
- Tornadoes
- Deadly Lightning
- Flood, flash flood
- thundersnow, snow squalls