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Excessive rains can produce flash floods/ floods which can change small creeks into raging
floodwaters, sweeping over structures along its path.
HEAVY RAINFALL
A localized windstorm characterized by a visible funnel-shaped, rapidly whirling cloud that
extends from the base of a dark –cumulonimbus cloud.
TORNADO
ice crystals falling from a thunderstorm cloud.
HAIL
Lightning is a visible electrical discharge due to high voltage differences that build up within the
cloud or between the rain cloud and the ground below.
LIGHTNING
Forked Lightning
Crooked lightning bolts discharge from cloud to ground or cloud to air
LIGHTNING FLASHES IN MANY FORMS
Clouds, rain blocks forked lightning bolt, but flash illuminates clouds.
Sheet Lightning
On rare occasions, small glowing balls loops from the cloud, but quickly vanish.
Ball Lightning
A warm core, non-frontal, synoptic scale system with cyclonically rotating winds
characterized by a rapid decrease in pressure and increase in winds toward the center of the
storm
Tropical Cyclone
Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal #1
Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal #2
Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal #3
Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal #4
Tropical Cyclone Wind Signal #5
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