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Downburst

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An area of strong, often damaging, winds produced by one or more convective downdrafts. Downbursts over horizontal spatial scales ≤ 4 km are referred to as microbursts, whereas larger events with horizontal spatial scales > 4 km are termed macrobursts.

(term edited 6 Oct 2015)

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