How to Use mesocyclone in a Sentence

mesocyclone

noun
  • Water droplets from the mesocyclone's moist air form a funnel cloud.
    — Ron Johnson, National Geographic, 28 Aug. 2019
  • The mesocyclone was not the tornado, per se, that tracked through Bowie.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
  • That helped stoke the storm’s updraft, contained within its mesocyclone.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 5 July 2022
  • And the shear can initiate a region of rotation in the updraft, called a mesocyclone.
    — Washington Post, 26 June 2020
  • When the air is pushed upward, that rotation becomes vertical, creating what’s known as a mesocyclone.
    — Perry Samson, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • These factors fuel an engine of rising and rotating air called a mesocyclone, which powers a supercell.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Bow echoes at times contain vortices, including a type called a mesocyclone contained in classic, isolated supercells.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 15 May 2018
  • This storm complex was not a supercell; Doppler radar never detected a rotating updraft (called a mesocyclone).
    — Washington Post, 27 May 2021
  • If not a tornado, then a sudden blast of straight-line wind could have been generated if part of the mesocyclone itself descended to the surface as a microburst-like downdraft.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2021
  • The final category is the supercell storm, which is the most dangerous, and forms when there is a mesocyclone or updrafts within the cell that spiral as the air travels upward.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 16 July 2022
  • The hook is generated by heavy rain wrapping counterclockwise around a low- to mid-level updraft circulation, called the mesocyclone.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
  • In particularly humid environments, the rotating part of the thunderstorm - known as the mesocyclone - can condense into a cloud that scrapes the ground surrounding the twister.
    — Matthew Cappucci, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Sillin’s analysis focused on where the beam is below 6,000 feet above the ground since this is where a storm’s low-level mesocyclone is located and thus important for detecting tornadoes.
    — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • For this additional supercell, radar implied a counterclockwise rotation indicative a fairly broad mesocyclone.
    — Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2020
  • The combination of moderate destabilization and shear is sufficient to support a few strong multicellular-type thunderstorms, and perhaps even a supercell or two (which contains a rotating updraft called a mesocyclone).
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 23 June 2017

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