Storm

Ororo Munroe was born in New York City as a Kenyan Tribal Princess to her mother the queen and her father an African American photographer. While living along the Suez Canal in Egypt her home was crashed into by a stray plane and her mother and father were killed. She was left buried for days under the rubble of the house and there she developed very intense claustrophobia. It is so intense that if left in a small room she will cower into the fetal position and have a breakdown. She is rescued by the theif lord Achmed, she becomes a very accomplished thief before moving to the Serengeti.
She becomes a member of a tribe in the Serengeti where she develops her powers to control the weather. She deveops these powers to a great exent and becomes worshiped as a rain goddess by the tribe. Then she becomes a member of the Xmen team.
She has the power to control all forms of weather over quite a large area of land and is known to use her powers when she gets quite emotional. Her power extends to catastrophic proportions and she can sometimes control entire ecosystems on a cosmic level. See controls temperature, all forms of precipitation, humidity, generate lightning and other electromagnetic phenomena. She also has quite a grasp over various atmospheric pressures. She incites forms of meteorologic tempests, like hurricanes, and tornados and she can also disipate weather.

She has also demonstrated the control over natural occurences such as solar winds, cosmic storms, ocean currents, and electromagnetic fields.

Storm becomes the deputy leader of the Xmen and Xaviers right hand. She is for a time outranked by Cyclops and for a time it portrays storm as being in love with Xavier but later is downplayed as a father daughter type relationship. After Xaviers death in the Xmen three movie, Cyclops has gone away because he is depressed over Jeans death, she then becomes the new leader of the Xmen school.