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   Tornado
   A tornado is a violent storm with heavy rain in which the wind rotates or constantly changes direction.
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   Tornado
   Tornado is a CDP in Kanawha County West Virginia, USA.
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   Tornado
   The Tornado is a British two-seat interceptor fighter aircraft.
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   tornado
   [n] - a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
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   Tornado
   A violent whirling windstorm of small radius which advances over land while circling round its centre. Strong ascending currents of air form in the region of a tornado. In West Africa a tornado is defined as a squall accompanying a thunderstorm.
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   Tornado
   (programming) The software development environment previously distributed with VxWorks. (1996-11-29)
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   tornado
   circular whirl of great intensity and small horizontal extent, with winds of hurricane force, accompanied by heavy rain or hail, thunder and lightning; it is short-lived, usually not lasting more than an hour or two, but causes heavy damage; The North American term for a violent whirling, twisting, cyclonic wind about 100 metres in diameter and extremely destructive in its path Category: The co...
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   Tornado
   Tor·na'do noun ; plural Tornadoes . [ From Spanish or Portuguese tornar to turn, return, Latin tornare to turn, hence, a whirling wind. The Spanish & Portuguese tornada is a return. See Turn .] A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.) , a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe th ...
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   tornado
   Origin: From Sp. Or Pg. Tornar to turn, return, L. Tornare to turn, hence, a whirling wind. The Sp. & Pg. Tornada is a return. See Turn. ... <meteorology> A violent whirling wind; specifically, a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, a ...
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    tornado
    twister noun a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
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    tornado
    noun a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted
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    Tornado
    A `tornado` is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, a cumulus cloud base and the surface of the earth. Tornadoes come in many sizes but are typically in the form of a visible condensation funnel, whose narrow end touches the earth and is often encircled by a cloud of debris. Most tornadoes have wind speeds of 110 mph (177 km/h) or less, are approximately 250 feet ...
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    Tornado
    • (n.) A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.
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    Tornado
    (from the article `military aircraft`) ...`look-down/shoot-down` capability, which was the product of pulse-Doppler radars that could detect fast-moving targets against cluttered radar ...
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    tornado
    a small-diameter column of violently rotating air developed within a convective cloud and in contact with the ground. Tornadoes occur most often in ... [5 related articles]
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    tornado
    tornado 1. An extremely destructive funnel-shaped rotating column of air that passes in a narrow path over land. 2. A short-lived but severe windstorm, especially one that occurs on the West African coast. 3. A state of frenzied activity or intense emotion, or someone in such a state. 4. Etymology: from 1556, a navigator's word for violent windy thu...
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    Tornado
    A vortex of rapidly moving air associated with some severe thunderstorms. Winds within the tornado funnel may exceed 500 kilometers per hour.
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    TORNADO
    A violently rotating column of air in contact with and extending between a convective cloud and the surface of the earth. It is the most destructive of all storm-scale atmospheric phenomena. They can occur anywhere in the world given the right conditions, but are most frequent in the United States in an area bounded by the Rockies on the west and t...
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    Tornado
    A violently rotating column of air, a vortex, formed in a thunderstorm which is in contact with both the parent cloud and the ground with a diameter between tens and hundreds of metres. The lifetime of a tornado is usually less than an hour, but some have been observed to last several hours. Wind speeds are usually above 64 km/h (40 mph) and can reach over 500 km/h (300 mph). The intensity of torn...
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    tornado
    tornado, dark, funnel-shaped cloud containing violently rotating air that develops below a heavy cumulonimbus cloud mass and extends toward the earth. The funnel twists about, rises and falls, and where it reaches the earth causes great destruction. The diameter of a tornado varies from a few feet t...
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