Height: 5' 11''
Weight: 127 lbs
Eyes: Brown
Hair: White
Age: 28
Legal Status: Unregistered Mutant, No criminal record
Place of Birth: New York City
Group Affiliation: X-Men, X-Treme Sanctions Executive (XSE), Tokyo Arena, formerly Twelve, Seven Brides of Set, Hellfire Club Inner Circle, Morlocks (leader)
Base of operations: The Xavier Institute, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York.
Powers: Storm is a mutant who possesses the psionic ability to manipulate weather over limited areas. She can stimulate the creation of any form of precipitation, such as rain or fog; generate winds in varying degrees of intensity up to and including hurricane force; raise or lower the humidity and temperature in her immediate vicinity; induce lightning and other electrical atmospheric phenomena; and disperse natural storms so as to create clear change. Storm can direct the path of certain atmospheric effects, such as bolts of lightning, with her hands.
Storm's control over the atmosphere is such that she can create certain effects over a specific area while shielding smaller areas within that region. For example, she can create a rainstorm around herself but prevent the raindrops from touching her. Storm can also create atmospheric phenomena over very small areas, such as a rainstorm small enough to water a single potted plant.
Storm can only manipulate weather patterns as they exist naturally. For example, she can end a drought in one area by creating torrential rains there, but that would necessitate robbing all available moisture from the surrounding areas. Storm is not able to create atmospheric conditions that do not exist naturally on the planet she is on. For example, Storm is unable to lower temperatures as far as absolute zero or raise them to solar intensities on Earth.
The limit to the size of the area over which Storm can manipulate weather is not yet known. However, she once diverted a jet stream so as to create storms over the entire Esat Coast of the United States. She can create weather effects within indoor areas or within artificially mantained environments. Storm is limited by the force of her will and teh strenght of her body. It once took her several hours to stop a savage blizzard over much of Canada, and she nearly died from exhaustation in the process.
History: Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born.
When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that still afflicts her today.
Homeless and orphaned, Ororo, came under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar. She became his prize pupil in thievery and in picking locks.
Years later, feeling a strong urge to go south, Ororo journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert and finally reached her ancestors' homeland, the Serengeti Plain, which lies in the modern nations of Kenya and Tanzania. By this time her mutant power to control the weather had emerged, and she used them to help the local tribes, who worshipped her as a goddess.
Ororo remained with the tribes for years until Professor Charles Xavier recruited her into the new team of X-Men he was assembling. She was given the code name "Storm" after her power to affect the weather. Except for brief periods away from the team, Storm has remained in the X-Men ever since and shares leadership of the X-Men with Cyclops.
