Personality: Storm remains calm and serene through the most stressful events. Her royal blood is evident in her majestic demeanour and strong will. Storm never summons her powers casually. This is because every use of her Weather Control power affects extant local weather patterns, she pays close attention to the possible consequences of such manipulation. When she summons the full powers at her command, it is clear why she was regarded as a goddess in her native lands.

Strength: Storm possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in intensive regular exercise.

Flight speed: Subsonic (when propelled by winds)

Fighting skills: Excellent hand-to-hand combatant, trained by Wolverine

Special skills and abilities: Extraordinary ability at picking locks and escaping bonds, excellent marksman with handguns. Storm is also an acomplished aerial combatant, she also has excellent leadership skills.

Known superhuman powers: Storm has the psionic ability to control the weather over limited areas. She can fly by creating winds strong enough to support her weight. Storm has limited immunity to extreme heat and cold.

Special limitations: Storm's psionic powers over the weather are affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control of her emotions, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. Also, Storm suffers from severe claustrophobia.

Other accessories: Storm carries lock picks.

When she was only six years old, David was assigned to Egypt to cover the growing tensions in the war torn Middle East, and he brought Ororo and N'Dare' there to accompany him. On one fateful day, Allied fighter jets in concert with those from Israel filled the skies above Egypt. One was hit by an anti-aircraft missile, causing the fighter plane to crash into the villa where Ororo and her family were staying. Her parents die in the tragic crash, but Ororo was buried alive in the rubble just feet away from the body of her mother. It is this horrible event that still manages to plague Storm with a claustrophobic fear of closed in spaces.

Orphaned and abandoned, Ororo managed to beg on the mean streets of Cairo, Egypt for a short while. Fortunately, she encountered a band of street urchins who took her to their master Achmed El Gibar. The elder master was an old pickpocket and escape artist who lived through training other abandoned children in survival and the art of picking pockets. He took pity on Ororo, and under his tutelage she became the best thief in Cairo and his favorite pupil. She learned the skill of begging, the tools of picking pockets and locks, as well as the art of escaping from all kinds of knots and perilous binding situations.

During this time she had a brief encounter with Professor Xavier who was vacationing in Cairo. As fate would have it, she targeted this toursisty looking man and stole his wallet. If not for his mutant powers, she would have no doubt have been successful. Even as a child, Xavier sensed her mutant abilities but was preempted from investigating further due to interference from his arch-nemesis Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King.

About six years past and Ororo felt an inner need to go south away from Egypt and the Sahara Desert. Ororo traveled on foot for about a year covering two thousand miles and crossing the countries of Ethiopia and Kenya. Along the way she met up with the Black Panther T'challa, the Warrior Prince of Wakanda. The two shared a brief romance until deciding to go their separate ways. Ororo's powers manifested at the young age of thirteen; and after making her way to the Serengeti Plains in Tanzania, she began to feel at peace. To say the native tribes were in awe of her weather wielding abilities is an understatement. They pronounced her a goddess, and Ororo embraced her new role supplying rain to the lands and alleviating droughts.

The paths of Ororo and Professor Xavier would cross again when Charles was recruiting new mutant heroes to form his second generation of X-men to replace those kidnapped by the mutant island Krakoa. Xavier explained to Ororo that she was not a goddess but a mutant, born with great powers and with them great responsibilities. He challenged her to serve the whole world with these powers and become one of his X-men. Ororo accepted of course and became the X-man code named Storm.

She became an integral part of the team and learned to hone and perfect her powers, becoming the best friend of Jean Grey in the process. Colossus became her "little brother." Even the often hard to deal with Wolverine became close to her, and he taught her the importance of complimenting her mutant powers with hand-to-hand combat skills. Later Storm replaced a grief-ridden Cyclops as the X-men's team leader, after he chose to leave the team to mourn Jean's "death".

Although daunted with the task at first, Storm grew into the role and enjoyed it immensely. However, as Cyclops returned and Xavier himself became more involved with commanding the team, the chain of command became blurred. This along with the identity struggle growing within her between serene weather goddess and hard nosed teamleader caused Ororo a fair amount of angst.

During this period, Storm led the X-men in a mission to save Angel's life from the Morlocks. The odds were bad, the situation was dire, the X-men were outnumbered, and Kitty's (whom she held as close to her as a daughter) life was held in the balance. In a last ditch effort to save the team, Storm challenged the Morlock leader Callisto to a duel to the death, with the winner taking control of the Morlocks. Storm wins this battle, driving a knife into Callisto's heart in the process and nearly kills her.

Again, these actions caused Ororo some confusion especially after being raised to hold life with the utmost regard. It wasn't until an X-men adventure in Japan where she met an adventurous girl named Yukio when she began to rectify these conflicting feelings. The two became the best of friends as Storm became fascinated by the sheer carefree antics of Yukio. After their encounter, Ororo took on a drastic change. She adopted a Mohawk hairstyle and a tough leather outfit to signify that she had outgrown the pristine weather goddess persona as well as to show to her teammates that she was secure in her role as team leader.

In a freak accident, Storm's mutant powers were stripped away by top government agent Henry Peter Gyrich with a gun designed by the mutant "maker" Forge, who was hired by the government to invent a weapon to strip mutants of their powers. Storm took the news of her lost birthright hard, but she began to fall in love with Forge not knowing it was he who had designed the weapon that had robbed her. The relationship took a turn for the worse when she found out the truth, and Ororo left Forge.

After a brief respite in Africa, Ororo challenged Cyclops to a duel to satisfy the leadership question once and for all. She beat Cyclops in that battle in the danger room despite not having any powers, relying more and more on her wits and her growing stealthlike strategy. Cyclops would have won except he was being manipulated by Madelyne Pryor, who didn't want him to join the X-Men again. Storm led the X-men effectively through many adventures, however she felt it necessary after the Mutant Massacre that her powers be restored somehow so that she could lead the team even better. She sought Forge's help in this matter and their relationship rekindled.

After getting her powers back, Storm took the team to Australia. The world thought the team was dead, and she believed the X-men could better serve the Dream by striking out at their enemies from beyond the grave and giving the team a sort of legendary status.

In Australia during a battle with Nanny, a robot with less than good intentions, Storm was thought to be dead by her teammates and was converted to the body of a child. She reemerged in Cairo, Illinois with little memory of who she was. She only knew that she was being hunted by Nanny and the evil Shadow King.

While burglarizing houses and eluding her pursuers, the young Storm met up with Gambit, a mysterious mutant thief from Louisiana. The two of them made quite a pair and overcame the danger of Nanny. They spent some time in Louisiana until Storm's memories returned and she brought Gambit back with her to the X-men.

In a horrifying battle with the Genoshan magistrates Storm was converted to a mutate slave. Through the coordinated efforts of the X-men and X-Factor, the Genoshans were defeated, and Storm emerged from the X-tinction Agenda with her mind and true age intact.

She is currently living in her attic quarters in the X-Mansion, serving as leader of the Gold Team.