What is an Isolated Thunder storm?

Answer 1

When an Isolated thunderstorm is forecasted, all it means is that there is a 10 to 20 % chance of thunderstorm activity during a specified period of time at any given point in the forecast area.

When you see the words isolated, scattered, numerous, occasional, etc. in the forecast, it's just a way of stating the liklihood of these events happening in the area being forecasted. Isolated being 10-20% chance, scattered being 30-50% chance, and numerous being a 60-70% chance.

Answer 2

Isolated thunderstorms are especially common during the summer in the mid-late afternoon when it is hot and humid. This is when you see those high towering, popcorn looking clouds in the middle of the afternoon when the sun hits the grounds and heats the air up. Usually isolated storms do not cover a large area. Normally when meteorologists predict isolated thunderstorms, they only call for about a 20-30% chance of rain. Most isolated storms are not severe, but occasionally 1 or 2 could become severe to produce strong winds and small hail. They are almost never tornado-producing storms.

Answer 3

A thunder storm is a huge cumulonimbus cloud. Some of these cu'nims can reach up to 40,000 feet, or more. They are anvil shaped - flat on the bottom and blossoming towards the top. Usually, as thunder storm has several of these clouds, called "cells." An isolated thunder storm is a single cell.

Answer 4

Just one lone cell, rather than scattered or a squall line of storms. Isolated storms tend to be a lil bit more on the strong side - those you have to watch very carefully on radar and in the sky as well. HOWEVER, I like isolated t-storms.. they make for good photography.

Answer 5

Often thunderstorms form in a line, usually along a cold front. These lines are called 'squall lines' and can be pretty rough because as soon as one storm is passed another ones comes in right behind it.

Isolated thunderstorms are just that, storms that are not part of a squall line. Often these isolated thunderstorms form over mountains, or result simply from lots of heat rising quickly into a moist atmosphere.

Answer 6

An Isolated Thunderstorm is..a violent, short-lived weather disturbance that is almost always associated with lightning, thunder, dense clouds, heavy rain or hail, and strong, gusty winds. Thunderstorms arise when layers of warm, moist air rise in a large, swift updraft to cooler regions of the atmosphere. There the moisture contained in the updraft condenses to form towering cumulonimbus clouds and, eventually, precipitation. Columns of cooled air then sink earthward, striking the ground with strong downdrafts and horizontal winds. At the same time, electrical charges accumulate on cloud particles (water droplets and ice). Lightning discharges occur when the accumulated electric charge becomes sufficiently large. Lightning heats the air it passes through so intensely and quickly that shock waves are produced; these shock waves are heard as claps and rolls of thunder. On occasion, severe thunderstorms are accompanied by swirling vortices of air that become concentrated and powerful enough to form tornadoes.

Answer 7

Just that. Not surrounded by other storms. Isolated thunderstorms
Scattered thunderstorms
Iine of thunderstorms
Area of intense thunderstorms
They all describe thunderstorm activity that may be occurring or forecast to occur in a defined area.

Answer 8

Isolated thunderstorms tend to occur where there are light winds that do not change dramatically with height and where there is abundant moisture at low and middle levels of the atmosphere—that is, from near the surface of the ground up to around 10,000 metres (33,000 feet) in altitude

Answer 9

A thunder storm that will only happen in the expected area. It won't happen in other nearby areas.

Answer 10

It's just a thunderstorm out of nowhere over a small area, usually doesn't last very long, in pretty fast and over within minutes.