When these downdrafts reach the surface, they spread out and turn into the destructive straight-horizontal winds.

Striking Taiwan as a powerful typhoon, destructive winds battered coastal areas near where the center moved ashore.

Very destructive winds with gusts to 260 km/h near the cyclone's centre were expected.

The vegetation, which used to be very lush, was stripped of all leaves by the destructive winds which carried airborne salt and sand.

Thirty years ago, those uncontrollable forces were the destructive winds of war.

Ruby brought extremely destructive winds of up to 155 km/h (100 mph) on October 24.

Spells, incantations, or the blowing of a whistle can conjure destructive winds.

The storms produced destructive straight-line winds across the metropolitan area, along with two isolated F0 tornadoes.

But less destructive winds saved New Jersey from major damage, officials said.

These ideological campaigns passed through like violent, destructive winds, storms of different duration.