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Storms spanning a few kilometers to a hundred kilometers in which intense vertical circulations develop, resulting in heavy precipitation, lightning and thunder are known as:

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thunderstorms

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As the warm and moist air rises into cold air, it becomes cooler, which causes moisture to form small water droplets. The water droplets come lower in the atmosphere, warms and then rises again. Storms spanning a few kilometers to a hundred kilometers in which intense vertical circulations develop, resulting in heavy precipitation, lightning and thunder are known as thunderstorms.

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