How Do Storms Form?

Storms are a disturbance on a planet's atmosphere affecting its surface. They are usually characterized by accompanying rushes of wind, rain, thunder, lightning, sow, hail and sleet. Storms are exciting to watch on television but can be vastly destructive in reality.

Thunderstorms are the most common type of storms and are known to accompany tornadoes, hurricanes etc. They are formed due to the convection currents. In the formation of a tornado, the air which is heated, rises and is pushed upwards by heavier, cooler mass of air. As the air moves up higher, it begins to cool and expand.

The water vapour in the air cools and condenses to form water droplets. With this process carrying for a prolonged period of time, a big thundercloud is formed and looms high in the sky. The activity of the air currents moving upward creates friction and electric discharges are set-off, resulting into lightning. The air cools down further, strong winds begin to blow and rain falls as the drops become too heavy to be sustained in the cloud.

Hm...Like what kind of storms? Tornadoes? They are made from a fusion of hot and cold air. Cold/warm fronts? They are made when a cold and warm front meet and one wins by being stronger/bigger. Hail storms? During a cold front, winds blow ice up into the higher layer of clouds, freezing the water and then the little ice pellet falls back through the cloud. If the wind is strong enough and if its cold enough, the pellet may blow back into the cloud several more times, getting another coating of more ice, gradually gaining size.                                                                                                                                                        Or..maybe youre just talking about a regular thunderstorm. Those form when warm air rises, cold air sinks, and because the warm air was forced up so suddenly, a strong draft is made. Then the warm air expands and cools, reaches saturation point, and forms cumulus clouds which start forming cumulonimbus clouds. If the upward draft(winds)is strong enough, the clouds may start spreading over the troposphere, beginning a thunderstorm. To add lightning, electrical energy is first built up between negatively and positively charged areas(I think referring to the pos. And neg. Areas in the cloud), then the discharge, or release, of this energy is known as lightning.

Storms form when warm and hot air from a gulf mix

Storms are formed by the ocean

When cool and hot air mix...hot air from the gulf of mexico and cold air from canada is what created the 2008 super tuesday tornado outbreak.

Storms form from the cool dry air in Canada and the warm dry air from the gulf of Mexico.

It depends on the weather condition....