What are 4 effects of thunderstorms?

Thunderstorms can bring heavy rains (which can cause flash flooding), strong winds, hail, lightning, and tornadoes. Severe thunderstorms can cause extensive damage to homes and property. Lightning is a major threat during a thunderstorm.

Is a thunderstorm dangerous?

Thunderstorms are dangerous because they include lightning, high winds, and heavy rain that can cause flash floods. Every thunderstorm produces lightning, which usually kills more people each year than tornadoes.

What happens to the air during a thunderstorm?

Thunderstorms form when warm, moist air rises into cold air. The warm air becomes cooler, which causes moisture, called water vapor, to form small water droplets – a process called condensation. The cooled air drops lower in the atmosphere, warms and rises again.

What happens in a thunderstorm for kids?

Thunderstorms happen when hot, moist air rises quickly to cooler parts of the atmosphere. There, the air cools, and clouds and rain form. Lightning, which is a form of electricity, develops inside the clouds. As the lightning heats the air, it causes it to expand.

What happens after a thunderstorm?

As the thunderstorm progresses, eventually the rain cools the entire process down and the energy is gone. Thunderstorms also help keep the Earth in electrical balance. The Earth’s surface and the atmosphere conduct electricity easily – the Earth is charged negatively and the atmosphere, positively.

Is lightning a disaster?

Over the years, the Home Ministry’s statistics consistently cited lightning as the biggest natural disaster-linked killer in India. Of these, 35.3\% deaths were reported due to ‘lightning’, 15.6\% deaths due to ‘heat/sun stroke’ and 11.6\% deaths due to ‘flood’.

Why does the sky look yellow after a storm?

The yellow or green light we see in thunderstorms is a result of the sun shining through very dense, moisture-laden clouds. It commonly occurs in severe thunderstorms, and all tornadoes are a product of thunderstorms, but a green sky is not a good predictor of tornadoes.

How do you fall asleep in a thunderstorm?

To get to sleep you will need to drown out the crashing thunder. One method is to use earplugs. You can buy these at any pharmacy in a variety of kinds, including foam, cotton, or wax. If you don’t find ear plugs comfortable enough to fall asleep, try listening to soothing music or even a white noise machine.

Do thunderstorms have an eye?

The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically 30–65 kilometers (19–40 miles) in diameter. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather and highest winds occur.