storm center

the center of a cyclonic storm, the area of lowest pressure and of comparative calm.

a center of disturbance, tumult, or trouble: The housing bubble was the storm center of the economic collapse.

Origin of storm center

First recorded in 1890–95

A dozen details combined to make "The Conquerors" a storm-center.

Charles Frohman: Manager and Man |Isaac Frederick Marcosson and Daniel Frohman
For a time on Monday, September 27th, it was the storm-center of battle.

Now It Can Be Told |Philip Gibbs
Clarke had been early to the storm-center; yet, of all the investigators, Clarke alone was not more or less disheveled.

Bransford of Rainbow Range |Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Kellyan, safe up the tree, got no fair view to shoot—could only wait till the storm-center cleared a little.

Monarch, The Big Bear of Tallac |Ernest Thompson Seton

They worked under cover, less openly than in the old days, but still a storm-center of trouble.

Oh, You Tex! |William Macleod Raine

storm center

The point of lowest barometric pressure within the central area of a storm.