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an air mass formed by powerful updrafts and downdrafts moving in convective loops, the smallest unit of a storm system.

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Words nearby storm cell

storm, Storm and Stress, storm belt, storm boat, stormbound, storm cell, storm cellar, storm center, storm centre, storm cloud, storm coat

How to use storm cell in a sentence

The resulting shear will help intensify storm cells and organize them into longer-lived complexes.
After producing several tornado warnings and funnel clouds, storms exiting region|Jason Samenow, Jeffrey Halverson|July 29, 2021|Washington Post
Should severe storm cells develop, however, locations impacted will experience a torrential downpour and intense lightning.
After producing several tornado warnings and funnel clouds, storms exiting region|Jason Samenow, Jeffrey Halverson|July 29, 2021|Washington Post
The wind shear acts to tilt the updraft away from the downdraft in storm cells, so that the two do not interfere, increasing storm vigor.
Risk of severe storms decreases with drier air pushing into region|Jason Samenow, Jeffrey Halverson|July 21, 2021|Washington Post
This can set up repeated passage of storm cells over the same locations, like a train, allowing rainwater to rapidly accumulate.
Heavy storms, some damaging, exit D.C. area. More rain likely tonight.|Jeffrey Halverson, Jason Samenow|July 1, 2021|Washington Post

If it knows that a storm cell in a geographic area usually grows or moves in a certain direction, it can find a new path before that storm shows up on weather maps.
Travel Is Coming Back, and Artificial Intelligence May Be Planning Your Next Flight|Alana Semuels/Seattle|May 25, 2021|Time
A summer storm cell breaks, purplish and powerful, over the North Park Baptist Church on the north side of Orlando.
Shaq, Year One|Charles P. Pierce|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Scientific definitions for storm cell

storm cell

An air mass that contains up and down drafts in convective loops, moves and reacts as a single entity, and functions as the smallest unit of a storm-producing system.