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- noun meteorology A strong
downdraft , of over 2.5 miles in diameter, that can cause damagingwinds .
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Though not a tornado as initially thought, the storm has been classified as a macroburst, a straight-line wind that can hit with the force of a tornado.
Epoch Times | All headlines By Tara MacIsaac/Epoch Times Staff 2010
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Though not a tornado as initially thought, the storm has been classified as a macroburst, a straight-line wind that can hit with the force of a tornado.
Epoch Times | All headlines By Tara MacIsaac/Epoch Times Staff 2010
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Though not a tornado as initially thought, the storm has been classified as a macroburst, a straight-line wind that can hit with the force of a tornado.
Epoch Times | All headlines By Tara MacIsaac/Epoch Times Staff 2010
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Though not a tornado as initially thought, the storm has been classified as a macroburst, a straight-line wind that can hit with the force of a tornado.
Epoch Times | All headlines By Tara MacIsaac/Epoch Times Staff 2010
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So it came as no surprise when meteorologists determined late Friday that the storm that barreled across a large swath of Brooklyn and Queens a day earlier spawned two tornadoes and a fierce macroburst with wind speeds up to 125 mph.
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A macroburst is an intense gust of wind that pours down from a storm.
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Officials initially had reported that a microburst hit the city but later corrected that to say it was a macroburst, because it was more than 2 1/2-miles long.
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A macroburst is an intense gust of wind that pours down from a storm.
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Officials initially had reported that a microburst hit the city but later corrected that to say it was a macroburst, because it was more than 2 1/2-miles long.
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"The large majority of damage was associated with the macroburst," Ciemnecki said.
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