Desert Storm

Desert Storm (roller coaster)

Desert Storm is a steel roller coaster located at Castles N' Coasters amusement park in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. Manufactured by Hopkins Rides, it opened in 1992 and is one of two roller coasters in the park. In 2017, Desert Storm was featured in the Macgillivray Freeman film Dream Big: Engineering Our World. The ride contains two looping inversions.

Gulf War

The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States in response to Saddam Hussein invading neighboring Kuwait on 2 August 1990. The coalition's efforts were in two phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, from the bombing campaign against Iraq on 17 January until the American-led liberation of Kuwait on 28 February.

Desert

A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation exposes the unprotected surface of the ground to denudation. About one-third of the land surface of the Earth is arid or semi-arid. This includes much of the polar regions, where little precipitation occurs, and which are sometimes called polar deserts or "cold deserts". Deserts can be classified by the amount of precipitation that falls, by the temperature that prevails, by the causes of desertification or by their geographical location.

Storm

A storm is any disturbed state of the natural environment or the atmosphere of an astronomical body. It may be marked by significant disruptions to normal conditions such as strong wind, tornadoes, hail, thunder and lightning, heavy precipitation, heavy freezing rain, strong winds, wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere such as in a dust storm, among other forms of severe weather.

desert

Noun

1. A barren area of land or desolate terrain, especially one with little water or vegetation; a wasteland.

Adjective

1. Usually of a place: abandoned, deserted, or uninhabited.

storm

Noun

1. Any disturbed state of the atmosphere causing destructive or unpleasant weather, especially one affecting the earth's surface involving strong winds (leading to high waves at sea) and usually lightning, thunder, and precipitation.
2. A heavy fall of precipitation (hail, rain, or snow) or bout of lightning and thunder without strong winds; a hail storm, rainstorm, snowstorm, or thunderstorm.

Verb

1. Preceded by the dummy subject it: to have strong winds and usually lightning and thunder, and/or hail, rain, or snow.
2. To make (someone or something) stormy; to agitate (someone or something) violently.