1) Alberta twister 2) Big blow 3) Big windstorm 4) British comics magazine 5) British fighter plane 6) Carrier to Oz 7) Circular wind 8) Class of World Sailing 9) Cyclone 10) Cyclonic wind 11) Destructive funnel 12) Destructive storm 13) Destructive whirlwind 14) Destructive windstorm 15) Dorothy''s transport to Oz
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1) Cyclone 2) Storm 3) Supertwister 4) Tempest 5) Twister 6) Vortex 7) Waterspout
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A violent rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud. A tornado does not require the visible presence of a funnel cloud.
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• (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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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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(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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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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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, ...
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A violent rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud. A tornado does not require the visible presence of a funnel cloud. It has a typical width of tens to hundreds of meters and a lifespan of minutes to hours.
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A funnel-shaped whirlwind which extends to the ground from storm clouds
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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 tem...
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A violently rotating column of air that reaches from the base of a cloud to the ground.
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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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A tornado is a violent storm with heavy rain in which the wind rotates or constantly changes direction.
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The Tornado (Panavia) is a joint British, German and Italian two-seater, variable-geometry ground-attack aircraft that entered service in 1980. Britain uniquely adopted the Tornado both for ground attack and produced a modified version for air defence. The Tornado been operational in the British RAF in several different forms:
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A violent rotating column of air, extending from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud to the ground, producing damaging winds up to 300 mph.
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A violently rotating column of air associated with a thunderstorm that is in contact with the ground. Tornadoes are categorized as weak, strong or violent with winds of up to, or more than 300 mph.
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A violent rotating column of air, in contact with the ground, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud. A tornado does not require the visible presence of a funnel cloud. It has a typical width of tens to hundreds of meters and a lifespan of minutes to hours.
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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...
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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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noun a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted
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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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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 re...
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Extremely violent revolving storm with swirling, funnel-shaped clouds, caused by a rising column of warm air propelled by strong wind. A series of tornadoes killed 47 people, destroyed 2,000 homes, and caused $500 million worth of damage in Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas in May 1999
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A rapidly rotating column of air extending from a cumulonimbus cloud with a circulation that reaches the ground. However, the visible portion might not extend all the way to the ground.
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