How to Use microburst in a Sentence

microburst

noun

• The latter reveals, in microbursts, the rail and the silhouette of the ride.
  — Dewayne Bevil, orlandosentinel.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• The storm over Dallas on Monday was a wet microburst, as seen by the dark rain curtain spilling out of the cloud.
  — Kathryn Prociv, Washington Post, 9 June 2017
• A microburst is a burst of high winds in a storm that has the potential to cause damage at the surface.
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 15 June 2017
• The city received a little over 2 inches of rain Monday evening in what Boydston called a microburst.
  — Mike Jones, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2022
• His play has been like the weather in Jersey City this week: If the sun is hot and bright in the sky, just wait an hour and a microburst will blow in dark clouds, sheets of rain and sheer misery.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• There have already been some setbacks in the early going, most notably with the microburst that swept through nearly a year ago on Sept. 13.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2020
• Winds in a microburst can reach 100 mph, equaling the force of an F-1 tornado, but without the formation of a funnel cloud.
  — Maria Eberhart, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2021
• How bad have 2017's pop-up thunderstorms, microbursts and hailstorms been?
  — Lee Roop | [e-mail], AL.com, 18 July 2017
• Another night of microburst skating is here, and time’s a-wasting.
  — Mark Whicker, Orange County Register, 11 May 2017
• Wet microbursts are common in the South during the summer, according to the weather service.
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 15 June 2017
• Some San Antoninas got a respite from the relentless summer heat on Monday when a wet microburst passed through the area.
  — Shepard Price, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Aug. 2022
• Any storm that develops could be plenty strong, with frequent lightning, small hail and strong wind gusts with the potential for a few wet microbursts.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 19 June 2018
• The region did get socked by a powerful microburst on Sept. 13 that unleashed high winds, uprooting mammoth trees and snapping others at the trunk.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 21 Dec. 2019
• But macrobursts and microbursts leave their mark by tossing debris in a single direction.
  — Scott Dance, baltimoresun.com, 4 June 2019
• Those storms could bring lightning and dangerous microburst winds that could put firefighters in danger.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2019
• The National Weather Service said the parameters will be in place for a few microbursts across north and parts of central Alabama.
  — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 15 June 2017
• Reopelle noted that the 9-hole course at Wing Park closed over the weekend until crews drained the course of excess water and tree debris left behind after a microburst and several storms.
  — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 26 July 2017
• In Penn Yan, N.Y., four people sustained minor injuries when a large structure under construction toppled due to strong winds and what some guessed was a microburst, though it could not be confirmed.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 27 May 2021
• While the tornado threat was lower than on Tuesday, large hail and microbursts caused headaches in southwestern Oklahoma, where winds gusted to 106 miles per hour around dinnertime in the town of Frederick.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 4 May 2018
• However, there remains the prospect of frequent lightning, and an isolated wet microburst or two in which a pocket of damaging winds hits a relatively small area.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 30 May 2018
• These strings grow more complex but are still executed as microbursts of electricity.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Jan. 2020
• The climate change exchange represented a rare microburst of policy discussion from Trump in a loud, nerve-abrading debate.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer and Seth Borenstein, Star Tribune, 30 Sep. 2020
• Thunderstorms over the weekend likely produced microbursts in central and west central Ohio, with winds estimated over 60 mph.
  — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 19 June 2018
• The National Weather Service initially thought the strong winds might have been a microburst, a violent downdraft within a thunderstorm that can cause extensive damage.
  — Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2023
• A storm system is expected to create isolated thunderstorms that could cause microbursts that can produce sudden downward thrusting winds.
  — Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 19 Aug. 2017
• The National Weather Service will investigate Monday whether the storm included a microburst, a small-scale downdraft produced by a thunderstorm or rain shower.
  — Gus Chan, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• Even before inspecting what was left behind, meteorologists had a hunch that the damage was commensurate with a tornado and not a microburst.
  — Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 15 June 2018
• An apparent microburst occurred with a collapsing updraft that produced hail before falling apart.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Connors said weather service personnel from Maine were headed to the area Tuesday as part an effort to verify whether a tornado, or something else like a microburst, had ripped through his community Monday.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2022
• Meteorologists called it a microburst—a brief, extreme downdraft within a thunderstorm that hit one small segment of the little peninsula of Catawba Island.
  — Lorraine Boissoneault, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024