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noun - a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
noun - a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted
adj - a violent windstorm [n -DOES or -DOS] : TORNADIC
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| Dust devils' cousins |
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| Oct 14 2018 Premier Sunday - King Feature Syndicate |
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| These can develop from hurricanes that make landfall, or from rotating thunderstorms called supercells |
| From the Latin for "thunder", these funnel-shaped columns of terrific winds are also known as twisters |
| Hurricanes are bad enough, but they also spin off these other hazards; Hurricane Beulah generated 141 when it hit Texas in 1967 |
| Action by Nebraska gov. Charles Thone kept order when these "breezed" through Grand Island in June 1980 |
| Ivy Ruckman's "Night of the Twisters" is a fact-based book about kids who survived a series of these |
| On April 3, 1974, during an 18-hour period, 148 of these touched down, ravaging towns in the Midwest |
| Meteorologist Theodore Fujita came up with the F-scale based on wind damage while studying these events |
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| A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. The windstorm is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-pressure area in the center around which winds blow counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern. Tornadoes come in many shapes and sizes, and they are often visible in the form of a condensation funnel originating from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, with a cloud of rotating debris and dust beneath it. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than 110 miles per hour (180 km/h), are about 250 feet (80 m) across, and travel a few miles (several kilometers) before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than 300 miles per hour (480 km/h), are more than two miles (3 km) in diameter, and stay on the ground for |