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What is the most important part of a thunderstorm to you?
Here is a hard question imo, as I have seen a lot of different scenarios. With instability and limited dynamics, you may have some storms pop and briefly become severe but with no forcing, they will not become very strong.
While if you have a lot of dynamics, but get socked in clouds and rain all day long, you are not going to have any severe storms form either obviously. My question to you guys is what is the most important part of the development of a thunderstorm?[/b]
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The second scenario is not true as I have had big rain events here in Iowa and have actually had lines of severe storms on the west side of the rain as it moved east. Also sometimes severe storms are embedded within heavy rain. To answer your question the first scenario would be "Pulse severe storms" and weak thunderstorms. The second scenario would most likely be embedded thunderstorms with rain.
I think the most inportant part of thunderstorm development would be instability and moisture and a front or boundary or forcing for the thunderstorms to form. Without ethier of those it is difucult to have thunderstorms. The most inportant part of a thunderstorm to me would be the tower or updraft. Without a good tower or updraft storms cant stay strong for very long in most scenarios.
Or you just say the "cumulus" cloud is the most inportant part of a thunderstorm because cumulus clouds form into swelling cumulus and then the cumulonimbus clouds form from that so without cumulus clouds you cant have a thunderstorm.
Sorry for bring this from the dead lol