How to Use straight-line wind in a Sentence

straight-line wind

noun
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  • Most of the damage was caused by strong straight-line winds.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 12 Jan. 2020
  • But any pockets of straight-line wind could be intense, with peaks gusts in the 60 to 70 mph range.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Heitkamp added that most of it was probably the result of strong straight-line winds.
    — CBS News, 11 Sep. 2019
  • 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, 17 Dec. 2019
  • There will still be a threat of tornadoes and hail, but straight-line wind damage will be the main danger.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 12 Apr. 2020
  • 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, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Heitkamp says the majority of the damage was likely caused by strong straight-line winds.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2019
  • A year ago, the zoo suffered damage after 70 mph straight-line winds slammed into Gulf Shores.
    — John Sharp, AL.com, 17 Mar. 2018
  • 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, 11 July 2021
  • April is not hurricane season, of course, and this storm, with deceptive straight-line winds, didn’t take that shape.
    — Brian Schutmaat, Smithsonian, 25 Apr. 2015
  • Significant straight-line wind damage and hail to the size of tennis balls could occur.
    — Leada Gore | Lgore@al.com, al, 12 Apr. 2020
  • Any storms that develop today will carry the same risks: Damaging straight-line winds and small hail.
    — Leigh Morgan, al.com, 22 June 2019
  • There will be the potential for tornadoes, damaging straight-line winds and heavy rain.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 3 Feb. 2020
  • 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, 17 June 2021
  • Other damage in the area was the result of powerful straight-line winds, likely between 60 and 70 mph, the team determined.
    — Dallas News, 17 June 2019
  • The majority of damage probably was caused by strong straight-line winds, Heitkamp said.
    — Makenzie Huber, USA TODAY, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The main threat is damaging, straight-line wind (30 percent chance), possibly from a squall line moving out of Ohio/West Virginia.
    — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 14 May 2018
  • In addition to the risk for tornadoes, the predominant risk with Wednesday’s storms will be straight-line wind damage.
    — Dennis Mersereau, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • As this happens, the main threat from the storm system will transition from tornadoes early in the night to a greater proportion of straight-line wind damage by morning.
    — Jeff Berardelli, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Damage caused by derechos is frequently referred to as straight-line wind damage.
    — Hannah Gard and Monica Garrett, CNN, 28 July 2021
  • The weather service said the storm started out producing straight-line wind damage east of Alabama State Road 17 in Gilbertown.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 25 Mar. 2022
  • The storms, July 18 to 20, produced tornadoes and straight-line winds, downing trees and knocking out power for hundreds of thousands of people.
    — Jack McCordick, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Nine tornadoes were reported from Texas to Iowa Wednesday with some straight-line wind gusts exceeding 100 mph.
    — CBS News, 3 May 2018
  • Dallas-Fort Worth saw significant straight-line wind damage on June 9.
    — Jesus Jimenez, Dallas News, 20 June 2019
  • The weather service said the tornado was associated with a larger swath of 90 to 95 mph straight-line wind damage.
    — Leigh Morgan, al, 4 Apr. 2022
  • 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, 10 Aug. 2020
  • Hinrichs coined it to distinguish straight-line wind damage from that produced by tornadoes.
    — Joe Taschler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2019
  • Slower winds experience less of the Coriolis Effect that bends straight-line winds because of the Earth’s rotation.
    — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 8 Sep. 2018
  • Forecasters think that damaging straight-line winds will be the primary threat, but brief tornadoes can't be ruled out either.
    — Leigh Morgan, AL.com, 24 Feb. 2018
  • Tornadoes, damaging straight-line winds and large hail all are possible.
    — Max Golembo, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2020

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