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please write a PARAGRAPH about a storm and it must involve
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It was a dark and stormy afternoon. Thunder crashed outside, and the dark room was briefly illuminated by a flash like a strobe light. I huddled on the couch in my PJs, staring out the window. The sky was currently gray, but far in the distance loomed an ominous black mass. Pennsylvania was known for its storms, but this was something else. I’d been through a lot there. Power outages, windstorms, and blizzards accumulating four feet of snow. However, I’d never seen anything like this. I turned on the TV and flicked to the Weather Channel, where a man in a black suit was gesturing to a colorful map.
I pinpointed where we were on the map, right in Radnor township. I gulped. We were currently in the purple bit, but the swirling red bullseye was heading straight towards us. I glanced out the window again. The black shadow seemed even closer. Another resounding clap echoed around the house. Sighing, I focused my attention back on the weather report.
“Over six hundred lightning flashes have been recorded in the area,” the man in the black suit presented, still sounding calm. It’s a wonder how they do that.
“And there have been reports of tornado activity nearby,” he finished. At that moment, Mom walked in. Her eyes widened, hearing that.
“A tornado?” she asked. At that moment, the skies opened. Water gushed from above, and I could hear the pling-pling-pling of hail bouncing off the windows. Mom grabbed my arm and pulled me to one corner of the kitchen, the most isolated and windowless part of the house. She then disappeared into the closet, and re-emerged holding two bicycle helmets. She strapped the silver one onto her head, then handed the other one too me.
“Mom!” I groaned. “Is this really necessary?”
“Just put it on,” came the reply. For several minutes we sat there in the kitchen, just listening to the wind howling outside. Suddenly, the howl turned to a shriek. I heard a thud as the back door banged open. Mom hurried over to close it. I curled in a ball, terrified.
Then, as soon as the storm started, it stopped. The wind stopped howling. The hail stopped pelting. The thunder and lighting stopped crashing. It was over.
I stepped out on the deck, into the still-moist air. Beneath me, the creek by our house rushed strong and wide, fed by the rain. It was evening, and I looked west, hoping to see a sunset. Instead, a stranger sight met my eyes. The sky was yellow. I blinked. It shone with a sickly golden sheen. This was not normal. I opened my computer, and looked up the yellow sky. What came up shocked me. A sky turns yellow after a tornado. It was then that I realized that we had been in danger.

A shelf cloud, associated with a heavy or severe thunderstorm, over Swedish island of Öland in the Baltic Sea in July 2005.
A storm is any disturbed state of an environment or in an astronomical body's atmosphere especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation (snowstorm, rainstorm), heavy freezing rain (ice storm), strong winds (tropical cyclone, windstorm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere as in a dust storm, blizzard.
Desert storms are often accompanied by violent winds, and pass rapidly.[1]
The English word comes from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz meaning "noise, tumult".[2]

Lightning storm, Port-la-Nouvelle.
Storms are created when a center of low pressure develops with the system of high pressure surrounding it. This combination of opposing forces can create winds and result in the formation of storm clouds such as cumulonimbus. Small localized areas of low pressure can form from hot air rising off hot ground, resulting in smaller disturbances such as dust devils and whirlwinds
Types
There are many varieties and types:
▪ Firestorm — Firestorms are conflagrations which attain such intensity that they create and sustain their own wind systems. It is most commonly a natural phenomenon, created during some of the largest bushfires, forest fires, and wildfires. The Peshtigo Fire is one example of a firestorm. Firestorms can also be deliberate effects of targeted explosives such as occurred as a result of the aerial bombings of Dresden. Nuclear detonations generate firestorms if high winds are not present.
▪ Hailstorm — a type of storm that precipitates round chunks of ice. Hailstorms usually occur during regular thunderstorms. While most of the hail that precipitates from the clouds is fairly small and virtually harmless, there are occasional occurrences of hail greater than 2 inches (5 cm) in diameter that can cause much damage and injuries.
▪ Hypercane -a hypothetical tropical cyclone that could potentially form over 50 °C (122 °F) water. Such a storm would produce winds of over 800 km/h (500 mph). A series of hypercanes may have formed during the astroid or comet impact that killed the non-avian dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Such a phenomenon could also occur during a supervolcanic eruption, or extreme global warming.
▪ Ice storm — Ice storms are one of the most dangerous forms of winter storms. When surface temperatures are below freezing, but a thick layer of above-freezing air remains aloft, rain can fall into the freezing layer and freeze upon impact into a glaze of ice. In general, 8 millimetres (0.31 in) of accumulation is all that is required, especially in combination with breezy conditions, to start downing power lines as well as tree limbs.[6] Ice storms also make unheated road surfaces too slick to drive upon. Ice storms can vary in time range from hours to days and can cripple small towns and large metropolitan cities alike.
▪ Thunderstorm — A thunderstorm is a type of storm that generates both lightning and thunder. It is normally accompanied by heavy precipitation. Thunderstorms occur throughout the world, with the highest frequency in tropical rainforest regions where there are conditions of high humidity and temperature along with atmospheric instability. These storms occur when high levels of condensation form in a volume of unstable air that generates deep, rapid, upward motion in the atmosphere. The heat energy creates powerful rising air currents that swirl upwards to the tropopause. Cool descending air currents produce strong downdraughts below the storm. After the storm has spent its energy, the rising currents die away and downdraughts break up the cloud. Individual storm clouds can measure 2–10 km across.
▪ Tornado — A tornado is a violent, destructive whirlwind storm occurring on land. Usually its appearance is that of a dark, funnel-shaped cloud. Often tornadoes are preceded by or associated with thunderstorms and a wall cloud. They are often called the most destructive of storms, and while they form all over the planet, the interior of the United States is the most prone area, especially throughout Tornado Alley.
▪ Tropical cyclone — A tropical cyclone is a storm system with a closed circulation around a centre of low pressure, fueled by the heat released when moist air rises and condenses.