tempest

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A violent windstorm, frequently accompanied by rain, snow, or hail.
• noun Furious agitation, commotion, or tumult; an uproar.
• transitive verb To cause a tempest around or in.
• idiom (teacup/teapot) A great disturbance or uproar over a matter of little or no importance.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A very violent storm; an extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious gale; a hurricane.
• noun A violent tumult or commotion; perturbation; violent agitation: as, a tempest of the passions; a popular or political tempest.
• To disturb violently, as by a tempest; rouse; throw into a state of commotion; agitate.
• To descend as a tempest; be tempestuous; storm.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb obsolete To disturb as by a tempest.
• noun An extensive current of wind, rushing with great velocity and violence, and commonly attended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm.
• noun Fig.: Any violent tumult or commotion.
• noun Archaic A fashionable assembly; a drum. See the Note under Drum, n., 4.
• intransitive verb obsolete To storm.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A storm, especially one with severe winds.
• noun Any violent tumult or commotion.
• verb intransitive, rare To storm.
• verb transitive To disturb, as by a tempest.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (literary) a violent wind
• noun a violent commotion or disturbance