1.   There was a gust of laughter.

2.   As she did so, a door slammed and there was a gust of air.

3.   At Jalozai, the temperature still dips in the evenings, and almost any gust is enough to lift the plastic walls off their moorings.

4.   But wind gusts were so powerful that they shattered glass in the west wing of the Conservatory in Golden Gate Park.

5.   Five minutes before the crash and six minutes afterward, the wind gusts were more than twice as strong.

6.   Higher gusts are possible, particularly in southeast Wyoming and northeast Colorado.

7.   How grand were the gusts?

8.   Powerful wind gusts called microbursts are possible as concentrated, intense downdrafts of air within storms spread rapidly outward upon impact with the ground.

9.   The damaging gust was part of a downburst, a speedy downdraft of air several kilometers in diameter that spreads out violently after impact with the ground.