Hurricanes and tropical storms offer all the necessary weather elements to spawn tornadoes: They carry small, spinning supercells inside their outer bands, which are thunderstorms that can form ...
Supercells have the capability to produce tornadoes, damaging hail and strong downdrafts (which translate into straight-line winds at the surface). All tornadoes are spawned from a parent ...
Today's storm risk includes the chance of rotating supercells, the rarest and most intense category of thunderstorm, capable of producing destructive winds, giant hail and torrential rain.