Produced by a cumulonimbus cloud, it is a microscale event of relatively short duration characterized by thunder, lightning, gusty surface winds, turbulence, hail, icing, precipitation, moderate to extreme up and downdrafts, and under the most severe conditions, tornadoes.
THUNDERSTORM
Meaning of THUNDERSTORM in English
Weather and meteorology English vocabulary. Английский словарь погоды и метеорологии . 2012