How to Use tropical storm in a Sentence

tropical storm

noun

• This tends to cool and condense the moisture in the tropical storm front, which then leads to rainfall.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2023
• Julia’s tropical storm-force winds have a reach of 80 miles.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2022
• In fact, there have only been four MDR tropical storms on record that have formed in June.
  — Matthew Cappucci The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
• In that time, tropical storms came and went—but each time the water never came up more than knee-high.
  — Andrew Lawrence, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2023
• Already this year, Hawaii has felt its wrath as a tropical storm passed south of the Big Island last month.
  — Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
• On the west coast, a tropical storm watch is in effect from the panhandle south to Bonita Springs.
  — David Schutz, Sun Sentinel, 8 Nov. 2022
• There have been no tropical storms in the Atlantic basin in nearly a month, and none so far this year have come close to the United States.
  — Mary Gilbert, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• The last one was issued Aug. 20 when tropical storm Hilary hit the region.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2024
• If either system grows into a tropical storm, the next names are Nicole and Owen.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2022
• There’s a new tropical storm and it’s already made landfall in Texas.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 22 Aug. 2023
• Tuesday morning, Otis was a tropical storm with top winds of 70 mph.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• When news of the approaching tropical storm arrived, many gathered at a church to wait it out.
  — Mark Saludes, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2022
• And there’s a new tropical storm on Bret’s heels: Tropical Storm Cindy.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 22 June 2023
• Ian has weakened to a tropical storm, and was about to move back over water as of Thursday morning.
  — Leigh Morgan, al, 29 Sep. 2022
• The storm weakened to a tropical storm by midday Wednesday.
  — Max Golembo, ABC News, 25 Oct. 2023
• The night before, a tropical storm had raked the region with gusty winds and heavy rain, and Dominica’s volcanic peaks were still wreathed in clouds.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023
• As recently as Monday, Otis was expected to be a run-of-the-mill tropical storm.
  — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• But the city-state will have to reinforce and improve those shields as tropical storms increase and sea levels rise.
  — TIME, 10 Oct. 2023
• The launch has been scrubbed and delayed four times this year — twice due to technical issues, once for a hurricane and once for a tropical storm.
  — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 16 Nov. 2022
• Charley's wind field was far smaller, with tropical storm winds extending out around 70 miles from the center.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2022
• Why are hurricanes and tropical storms so rare in this region?
  — Marshall Shepherd, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• In the floods of 1983, when my parents and I were overseas, a tropical storm flooded at least seventeen Thai provinces.
  — Pitchaya Sudbanthad, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2022
• Assuming the system earns a name, it would be called Bret and would be the third tropical storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season.
  — Matthew Cappucci The Washington Post, Arkansas Online, 19 June 2023
• By the time Isabel’s effects were felt in Baltimore that evening, it had been downgraded to a tropical storm.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 19 Sep. 2023
• Since Bass took the helm of the nation’s second-largest city in December, she has been confronted with a school strike and a historic tropical storm.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• And in August, when there’s typically no rain, the public was told to brace for a tropical storm — something that San Diego hadn’t seen since 1939.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
• Heavy rains in winter — as well as a rare tropical storm in August — put an end to three years of punishing drought and made the landscape far less likely to burn.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• Most of South Florida, however, felt strong tropical storm bands of wind and rain, as well as coastal flooding.
  — Kathy Laskowski, Sun Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2022
• The difference was that a tropical storm brought torrential rain.
  — John Christopher Fine, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2023
• Risks from hurricanes or tropical storms Storm surge: This is rising water produced by winds from the storm.
  — Sam Schulz, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024