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Storm-1516
Storm-1516 (also False Façade, CopyCop) is a Russian influence operation, active since August 2023, producing fake videos, AI-generated articles, and fake news sites to discredit Ukraine and sway elections in the US, Germany, and elsewhere.
Storm-relative helicity
Storm-relative helicity (SRH) is a meteorological measure of the potential for a thunderstorm to acquire a rotating updraft, widely used in United States supercell and tornado forecasting.
Storm-scale ensemble forecasting
Storm-scale ensemble forecasting runs many parallel numerical forecasts at 1 to 4 km grid spacing, called convection-permitting ensembles, so spread among members estimates forecast uncertainty.
Storm-V
Storm-V (Шторм-V, Shtorm-V) is the Russian Ministry of Defense's convict-staffed assault unit program, successor to Storm-Z from September 2023: 110-person companies of five 22-person assault groups distributed into regular army units, with longer service terms than Storm-Z's six months.
Stormborn
Stormborn is the second episode of Game of Thrones season 7 (62nd overall), aired July 23, 2017 on HBO; directed by Mark Mylod, written by Bryan Cogman, 9.27 million US viewers, 96% on Rotten Tomatoes; also a 2020 wildlife series title.
Stormbreaker (film)
Stormbreaker, released in some markets as Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker, is a 2006 action film directed by Geoffrey Sax, adapted by Anthony Horowitz from his own novel.
Stormbringer (album)
Stormbringer (album): Deep Purple's ninth studio album, released 8 November 1974 on Purple Records; the Mark III lineup's second record after Burn, recorded in Munich, with funk and soul influences that preceded Ritchie Blackmore's departure.
Stormé DeLarverie
Stormé DeLarverie (1920–2014), New Orleans-born biracial butch lesbian, drag king, and singer, was MC of the Jewel Box Revue (1955–1969) and a Stonewall veteran often, though contestably, credited with throwing the first punch; later a Village bouncer and guardian.
Stormers
The Stormers, a professional rugby union team based in Cape Town, South Africa, won the inaugural United Rugby Championship title in 2022 after being created in 1998.
Stormfront (website)
Stormfront.org is a white nationalist discussion forum founded in 1995 by former KKK leader Don Black, the first major hate site on the Internet, with hundreds of thousands of registered users and documented links to extremist violence.
Stormi Henley
Stormi Bree Henley (born 1990, Crossville, Tennessee) is an American model and Miss Teen USA 2009, later a singer with the band U.G.L.Y. and an actress; mother of Gravity Blue Smith with Lucky Blue Smith, distinct from Kylie Jenner's daughter Stormi and Stormi Steele.
Storming of Izmail
The Storming of Izmail (Штурм Измаила) was the capture of the Ottoman fortress on the Danube by about 31,000 Russian troops under Suvorov on 11 December 1790, a victory commemorated as Russia's Day of Military Glory.
Storming of the Bastille
Storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789): Parisians seized the royal fortress-prison seeking gunpowder, freeing seven prisoners; it sparked the French Revolution and has marked France's 14 July national holiday since 1880.
Storming of the Byrsa
The Storming of the Byrsa was the Roman assault under Scipio Aemilianus on Carthage's citadel hill in the spring of 146 BC, ending the Third Punic War and preceding the city's destruction.
Storming of Yogyakarta
The Storming of Yogyakarta, remembered in Javanese as Geger Sepehi (the sepoy calamity), was the British-Indian assault on the royal palace of the Sultanate of Yogyakarta in June 1812, ending the sultanate's effective independence.
Stormorken-Sjaastad-Langslet syndrome
Stormorken-Sjaastad-Langslet syndrome (Stormorken syndrome, OMIM 185070) is a rare autosomal dominant CRAC channelopathy from gain-of-function STIM1 mutations, causing thrombocytopenia, asplenia, miosis, and tubular aggregate myopathy; York platelet syndrome is the same spectrum.
StormShroud
StormShroud is an electronic warfare uncrewed aircraft of the British Royal Air Force, pairing the Tekever AR3 airframe with Leonardo's BriteStorm jammer and entering service in May 2025.
Stormtrooper
Stormtroopers (German Stoßtruppen, Sturmtruppen) were WWI German elite assault units using infiltration tactics: small groups led by an NCO, 18 storm battalions by 1918, Riga 1917, Spring Offensive 1918, legacy in Reichswehr doctrine and the Star Wars name.
Stormtrooper (Star Wars)
Stormtroopers are the Galactic Empire's fictional elite shock troops in Star Wars, white-armored soldiers named after Germany's WWI Sturmtruppen; designed by Ralph McQuarrie, sculpted by Brian Muir and Liz Moore, and continued by the First Order.
Stormtroopers (Imperial Germany)
Stoßtruppen (stormtroopers) were Imperial Germany's elite trench-assault infantry of World War I, first authorized 2 March 1915 and grown to 18 Sturmbataillone; they pioneered infiltration tactics used in the 1918 Spring Offensive.
Stormtroopers of Death
Stormtroopers of Death (S.O.D.) was a New York crossover thrash side project of Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante with Dan Lilker and Billy Milano; its 1985 debut Speak English or Die, recorded in three days, defined crossover thrash.
Stormwater
Stormwater is rain and snowmelt that flows over impervious surfaces such as paved streets and rooftops instead of soaking into the ground, picking up pollutants and stressing urban streams.
Stormwater best management practice
A stormwater best management practice (BMP) is a structure or procedure that reduces the volume, rate, or pollutant load of runoff, through facilities like detention ponds and source controls.
Stormy (rapper)
Stormy (Yasser El Malih, born 1997, Rabat), Moroccan rapper in Darija and French; breakout "Fratello" 2020, debut solo album ICEBERG (2024) with "POPO"; distinct from British grime rapper Stormzy.
Stormy Daniels
Stormy Daniels is an American adult film performer, director, writer, and television presenter. She testified in the2024 New York criminal trial concerning Donald Trump’s business records.
Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal
The Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal covers the $130,000 2016 hush payment by Michael Cohen, FEC campaign finance findings, Cohen's 2018 guilty plea, and Trump's 2024 New York conviction on 34 falsified business records counts.
Stormzy
Stormzy (Michael Ebenazer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr, born 1993) is a Croydon-born British grime artist of Ghanaian heritage; his 2017 debut Gang Signs & Prayer was the first grime album to top the UK chart, and he was the first British rapper to headline Glastonbury.
Stornelli Legionari
Stornelli Legionari, also titled Vogliamo scolpire una lapide, is an anonymous 1943 Italian Social Republic fascist song set to the Inno a Oberdan melody, cursing Badoglio, the Savoy monarchy, and Pope Pacelli while praising Graziani.
Stornoway
Stornoway (Steòrnabhagh) is the largest town of the Outer Hebrides, on Lewis, Scotland; historic herring port and seat of Lews Castle, the Stornoway Trust, and the Ullapool ferry link.
Storozhynets Raion
Storozhynets Raion (Сторожинецький район, Raionul Storojineț), a district in southwestern Chernivtsi Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Storozhynets; 1,160 km², 95,679 residents, borders Romania, formed 1940, reorganized in the 2020 raion reform.