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Definition of Storm center

1. Noun. A center of trouble or disturbance.

2. Noun. The central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Storm Center

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storm-tossed storm-trooper storm-troopers storm cellar storm cellars storm center (current term) storm centre storm chaser storm cloud storm clouds

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Literary usage of Storm center

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1899)
"Now turn to the chart of the following morning (figure No. 9) and notice that the storm center has increased in intensity (its center shows much lower ..."

2. The American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation and by Nathaniel Bowditch, George Wood Logan (1906)
"Within the tropics (in the northern hemisphere) the average velocity of the storm center along the track is about 17 miles per hour; in the latitudes of ..."

3. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1907)
"Standing with the back to the wind and extending the right arm directly in front, and the left arm at right angles to this, the storm center is usually in a ..."

4. The Roots of the War: A Non-technical History of Europe, 1870-1914, A.D. by William Stearns Davis, William Anderson, Mason Whiting Tyler (1918)
"... CHAPTER XIX THE storm center IN MOROCCO DURING the later years of his life Otto von Bismarck was surveying the possible causes for war which might arise ..."

5. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1899)
"269 it will be observed that if the storm center comes directly toward the ... If, however, the storm center is passing considerably to the north of the ..."

6. Bulletinby United States Weather Bureau by United States Weather Bureau (1903)
"This is particularly true in cases where the passage of the storm center is followed by a cold wave. While storms from the middle-west are common to all ..."

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