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[mī́krō-bûrst́]
(n.)A sudden, violent downdraft of air over a small area. Microbursts are difficult to detect and predict with standard weather instruments and are especially hazardous to airplanes during landing or takeoff.
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A microburst is a very localized column of sinking air, producing damaging divergent and straight-line winds at the surface that are similar to but distinguishable from tornadoes which generally hav...
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Warning Coordination Meteorologist, Dan Gudgel, National Weather Service, Hanford, CA describes a microburst and it's cause and effect. Video of a microburst... ... there was a huge microburst that blew through my street like an hour ago ...no frickin kidding!!! we were sitting on the couch watching the cleavelend show...
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A blustery day - August 23. 2007. Joey (5) is the commentator, and I was holding the camera. We thought it was a tornado at the time, but found out later that it was classified a microburst.
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A microburst initially develops as the downdraft begins its descent from cloud base. The downdraft accelerates and within minutes, reaches the ground (contact stage). It is during the contact stage that the highest winds are observed.
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A microburst is a small, very intense downdraft that descends to the ground resulting in a strong wind divergence. The size of the event is typically less than 4 kilometers across. Microbursts are capable of producing winds of more than 100 mph causing significant damage.
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The best microburst detectors, such as Doppler radars and lidars, have been indispensable in field projects but until recently were not operational at most major airports. ... Following a discussion of physical models of a microburst environment, on which forecasts are based, two environmental extremes (wet/dry) for...
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Many pilots have been trained to aviod large supercell-type thunderstorms in the belief that this will prevent encounters with microbursts. Yet no evidence exists that any of the known microburst encounters have occurred in supercell storms. ... Microburst definitions...
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The Semi-official Microburst Handbook Homepage ... by Fernando Caracena ... ; This site is under construction. An online version of "Microbursts A Handbook for Visual Identification" is now available.
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