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tropical storm

noun

, Meteorology.

tropical storm

A tropical cyclone having sustained surface winds between 39 and 73 mi (63 and 118 km) per hour.
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First recorded in 1940–45

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A tropical storm, clearly visible on radar for days, is to blame.

As I ended my call with Mooney, he was monitoring tropical storm Gonzalo as it was developing into a classified hurricane.

This weatherman gets a little aroused... er, excited to predict the path of a tropical storm.

In 2004, another election year, Florida was hit with four hurricanes and a tropical storm between August and September.

The major cities on the East Coast now have a 40-50% probability of experiencing tropical-storm-force winds.

The same strange tenseness that precedes a tropical storm, an atmosphere of impending conflict, seemed to hang over them.

On most days it looked impending over us like a tropical storm cloud, ready to dissolve in rain and ruin.

He had scarcely reached the beach when a tropical storm swept across the waters.

The fifth day after parting from the brig we encountered a tropical storm.

Barty was obliged to shout himself, just as he had been obliged to shout in the tropical storm.

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