How to Use straight-line wind in a Sentence

straight-line wind

noun
  • Most of the damage was caused by strong straight-line winds.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 2020-01-12
  • Heitkamp added that most of it was probably the result of strong straight-line winds.
    — CBS News, 2019-09-11
  • There will still be a threat of tornadoes and hail, but straight-line wind damage will be the main danger.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 2020-04-12
  • From torrential rain to damaging straight-line winds to the back-to-back overnight snow we've been hit with this week.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 2019-12-17
  • But any pockets of straight-line wind could be intense, with peaks gusts in the 60 to 70 mph range.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 2020-09-03
  • April is not hurricane season, of course, and this storm, with deceptive straight-line winds, didn’t take that shape.
    — Brian Schutmaat, Smithsonian, 2015-04-25
  • Tee times were pushed back three hours after an overnight storm with straight-line wind of 90 mph knocked over camera towers and downed trees.
    — Eric Olson, ajc, 2021-07-11
  • Tornadoes, damaging straight-line winds and large hail all are possible.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 2020-03-05
  • Any storms that develop today will carry the same risks: Damaging straight-line winds and small hail.
    — Leigh Morgan, al.com, 2019-06-22
  • The majority of damage probably was caused by strong straight-line winds, Heitkamp said.
    — Makenzie Huber, USA TODAY, 2019-09-11
  • A year ago, the zoo suffered damage after 70 mph straight-line winds slammed into Gulf Shores.
    — John Sharp, AL.com, 2018-03-17
  • Severe storms, straight-line winds, flooding, landslides and mudslides damaged areas of Kentucky.
    — Julia Fair, Cincinnati.com, 2019-06-07
  • In addition to the risk for tornadoes, the predominant risk with Wednesday’s storms will be straight-line wind damage.
    — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 2021-12-29
  • The storm raced across the state July 19 and 20, producing derechos, or long-lived, straight-line winds that felled trees by the millions.
    — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2019-11-16
  • In all, 14 people died from the storms, with most stemming from the direct hit of the tornadoes and others from two straight-line wind gusts that toppled trees onto homes.
    — USA Today, 2021-06-17
  • Other damage in the area was the result of powerful straight-line winds, likely between 60 and 70 mph, the team determined.
    — Dallas News, 2019-06-17
  • Slower winds experience less of the Coriolis Effect that bends straight-line winds because of the Earth’s rotation.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 2018-09-08
  • Forecasters said the line of storms will weaken over the region after the same system causes straight-line wind damage in the western parts of the Midwest earlier Monday.
    — Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 2020-08-10
  • In Mississippi, straight-line wind reportedly knocked at least 30 train cars off the tracks in Tallahatchie County.
    — Fox News, 2020-01-12
  • A few of these storms could become strong to severe on both Thursday and Friday with hail up to 1 inch in diameter and straight-line winds up to 60 mph possible, according to the Weather Service.
    — Robert A. Cronkleton, kansascity, 2018-06-06
  • The National Weather Service already has done a preliminary investigation and determined that there were two tornadoes and straight-line wind damage from the supercell thunderstorm that crossed the area.
    — Dave Epstein, BostonGlobe.com, 2019-07-24

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