List of severe weather phenomena

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Severe weather phenomena are weather conditions that are hazardous to human life and property.

Part of the nature series

Weather

Calendar seasons

* Winter
* Spring
* Summer
* Autumn

Tropical seasons

* Dry season
* Harmattan
* Wet season

Storms

* Cloud
* Cumulonimbus cloud
* Arcus cloud
* Downburst
* Microburst
* Heat burst
* Derecho
* Lightning
* Thunderstorm
* Air-mass thunderstorm
* Thundersnow
* Mesocyclone
* Supercell
* Tornado
* Anticyclonic tornado
* Landspout
* Waterspout
* Dust devil
* Fire whirl
* Anticyclone
* Cyclone
* Polar low
* Extratropical cyclone
* European windstorm
* Nor'easter
* Subtropical cyclone
* Tropical cyclone
* Atlantic hurricane
* Typhoon
* Storm surge
* Dust storm
* Simoom
* Haboob
* Monsoon
* Amihan
* Gale
* Sirocco
* Firestorm
* Winter storm
* Ice storm
* Blizzard
* Ground blizzard
* Snowsquall

Precipitation

* Drizzle
* Freezing
* Graupel
* Hail
* Megacryometeor
* Ice pellets
* Diamond dust
* Rain
* Freezing
* Cloudburst
* Snow
* Rain and snow mixed
* Snow grains
* Snow roller
* Slush

Topics

* Air pollution
* Atmosphere

*     * Chemistry
* Convection
* Physics
* River
* Climate
* Cloud
* Physics
* Fog
* Fog season
* Cold wave
* Heat wave
* Jet stream
* Meteorology
* Severe weather
* List
* Extreme

* Weather forecasting
* Weather modification

Glossaries

* Meteorology
* Climate change
* Tornado terms
* Tropical cyclone terms

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.

## Contents

* 1 Examples
* 1.1 Atmospheric
* 1.2 Electrical storms
* 1.3 Fire
* 1.4 Flood
* 1.5 Oceans and bodies of water
* 1.5.1 Snow
* 1.5.2 Ice
* 1.5.3 Rain
* 1.6 Surface movement
* 1.7 Temperature
* 1.8 Volcano
* 1.9 Wind
* 1.10 Other
* 2 Phenomena caused by severe thunderstorms
* 3 Severe weather caused by humans
* 4 See also

## Examples

### Atmospheric

* Fog
* Haar (fog)
* Ice fog

### Electrical storms

* Thunderstorm
* Derecho
* Multicellular thunderstorm
* Pulse storm
* Squall line
* Storm cell (single-cell)
* Supercells, rotating thunderstorms
* Lightning

### Fire

* Wildfire or bushfire (ignition of wildfires is sometimes by lightning strike, especially in "dry thunderstorms")
* Firestorm
* Fire whirl, also called firenado and fire tornado

### Flood

* Floods
* Flash flood
* Coastal flooding
* Tidal flooding
* Storm surge

### Oceans and bodies of water

* Harmful algal bloom
* Blue green algae
* Red tide
* High seas
* Sneaker wave
* High tides
* King tide
* Ice shove
* Rogue wave
* Seiche
* Swell (ocean)
* Tidal surge
* Storm surge
* Rip currents
* Undertow (water waves)
* Whirlpools

#### Snow

* Avalanche
* Blizzard
* Lake effect snow
* Snownado
* Snow devil
* Polar vortex

#### Ice

* Black ice
* Glaze ice
* Hailstorm
* Ice shove
* Ice storm
* Megacryometeor

#### Rain

* Acid rain
* Blood rain
* Cold drop (Spanish: gota fría; archaic as a meteorological term), colloquially, any high impact rainfall event along the Mediterranean coast of Spain
* Drought, a prolonged water supply shortage, often caused by persistent lack of, or much reduced, rainfall
* Floods
* Flash flood
* Rainstorm
* Red rain in Kerala (for related phenomena, see Blood rain)
* Monsoon

### Surface movement

* Avalanche
* Mass wasting and landslips
* Earthquake
* Landslide
* Debris flows
* Mudslide
* Rockfall
* Coastal erosion
* Sinkhole

### Temperature

* Cold wave
* Heat wave
* Heat burst
* Polar vortex

### Volcano

* Volcanic eruption
* Volcanic lightning
* Volcanic ash

### Wind

* Cyclones
* Extratropical cyclone
* European windstorms
* Australian East Coast Low
* "Medicane", Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones
* Polar cyclone
* Tropical cyclone, also called a hurricane, typhoon, or just "cyclone"
* Subtropical cyclone
* Australian east coast low
* Explosive cyclogenesis or weather bomb
* Dust storm
* Haboob
* Dust devil
* Sandstorm
* Hurricane
* Katabatic winds
* Bohemian wind
* Bora
* Piteraq
* Gregale
* Anabatic wind
* Valley exit jet
* Santa Ana winds
* Williwaws
* Chinook
* Gale
* Monsoon
* Nor’easter
* Nor'westers
* Steam devil
* Squall
* Straight-line winds
* Derecho
* Tornado (also colloquially referred to as a "whirlwind" or "twister")
* Landspout
* Gustnado, a "gust front tornado"
* Waterspout
* Winter storms
* Wind gust
* Windstorm
* Gust front

### Other

* Heat lightning
* Zud, widespread livestock death, mainly by starvation, caused by climatic conditions
* Hayfever

## Phenomena caused by severe thunderstorms

* Derecho
* Extreme wind (70 mph or greater)
* Downpours
* Heavy rain
* Flood, flash flood, coastal flooding
* Hail
* High winds – 93 km/h(58 mph) or higher.
* Lightning (Upper-atmospheric lightning)
* Thundersnow, Snowsquall
* Tornado
* Windstorm (gradient pressure induced)
* Severe thunderstorm (hailstorm, downburst: microbursts and macrobursts)

## Severe weather caused by humans

* Air pollution

## See also

* Extreme weather
* List of weather-related phenomena
* Meteorology
* Severe weather terminology (United States)
* Space weather

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