Xavier Institute Personnel File. 

Powers: Storm is a mutant with the ability to manipulate weather. She can stimulate any form of precipitation, generate winds in varying degrees of intensity, 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.

Years later, feeling a strong urge to head south, Ororo journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert. Finally, she reached her ancestors' homeland: the Serengeti Plain, straddling the modern nations of Kenya and Tanzania. By this time, her mutant ability to manipulate the weather had emerged; she used it to aid the local tribes, who worshipped her as a deity. Ororo played goddess for several years -- until the telepathic, telekinetic Professor Charles Xavier recruited her to join his team of mutant adventurers, the original X-Men.

Hated and feared for her strange and frightening powers -- not worshipped, as she had been in Africa -- Ororo joined Professor X and his charges in defense of a world on the brink of genetic war. Except for brief periods away from the team, she has remained an X-Man ever since -- even enduring the temporary loss of her mutant abilities to lead the Children of the Atom into battle.

For a time, Storm's loyalties were divided between the X-Men and the Morlocks. Ororo became leader of the underground community of mutants when she fought Callisto, who had gathered together the social outcasts in the sewers beneath New York City, and defeated her in single combat. But during one of Storm's frequent absences from the Morlocks tunnels, the majority of the population was slaughtered by the Marauders -- a team of superhuman assassins employed by the mysterious Mr. Sinister, an obsessed geneticist working to create the world's most powerful mutant. The X-Men were able to help some of the Morlocks to safety, and a considerable number managed to escape the Marauders on their own. Still, news of the massacre sent Storm reeling; she blamed herself for not being there during the Morlocks' time of need