Synonyms for thunderstorm
ˈθʌn dərˌstɔrmthun·der·storm

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1. thunderstorm, electrical storm, electric stormnoun

   a storm resulting from strong rising air currents; heavy rain or hail along with thunder and lightning

   Synonyms:
   electrical storm, electric storm

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1. supercell

   a rotating storm

   a highly organized thunderstorm that can last for several hours, capable of producing both updrafts and downdrafts exceeding 100 miles per hour, large hailstones, tornadoes, and flash flooding (often used attributively)

   Submitted by rinat on June 5, 2017  

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1. List of paraphrases for "thunderstorm":

   thunderstorms, storm, thundershower, thunder, storms, rainstorm

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1. Harold Brooks:

   A man stands atop a smashed car in a tornado-ravaged neighborhood south of Oklahoma City. The F5 tornado killed some 44 people in May 1999. ( Reuters) Most tornadoes form from supercells, also known as a rotating thunderstorm or a mesocyclone. A supercell is typically a thunderstorm with the winds already in motion, according to National Geographic. It requires a combination of warm, moist air and cold, dry air which are the ingredients for a regular thunderstorm.

2. David Deptula:

   The ultimate guidance rests in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, we have been applying air power like a rain shower or a drizzle -- for it to be effective, it needs to be applied like a thunderstorm.

3. Veterinarian Caroline Hecker:

   They don’t understand that it’s the Fourth of July. They don’t understand there’s a thunderstorm coming. They just feel those pressure changes, they hear that rumble, and they think their world is coming to an end.

4. Amber Escudero-Kontostathis:

   Don't just go out in a thunderstorm wearing Docs because that will not save you, that's for sure, it is the miracle makers that allow miracle stories to happen so they get all the props, all the attention goes to them.

5. James Thurber:

   I loathe the expression What makes him tick. It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.