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English (EN)A tornado warning (SAME code: TOR) is an alert issued by weather services to warn that severe thunderstorms with tornadoes may be imminent. It can be issued after a tornado or funnel cloud has been ...
A tornado watch (code: WT; sometimes referred to as a "red box" by meteorologists and storm chasers) is issued when weather conditions are favorable for the development of severe ...
Tornado Alley is a colloquial term for the area of the United States where tornadoes are most frequent. Although the boundaries of Tornado Alley are not clearly defined, its core is northern Texas, ...
A dust devil is a strong, well-formed, and relatively long-lived whirlwind, ranging from small (half a meter wide and a few meters tall) to large (more than 10 meters wide and more than 1000 meters ...
Landsprouts are tornadoes occurring with a parent cloud in its growth stage and with its vorticity originating in the boundary layer. The parent cloud does not contain a preexisting midlevel ...
A satellite tornado is a tornado that rotates around a larger, primary tornado and interacting with the same mesocyclone. Satellite tornadoes occur apart from the primary tornado and are not ...
A supercell is a thunderstorm that is characterized by the presence of a mesocyclone: a deep, persistently rotating updraft.[1] For this reason, these storms are sometimes referred to as ...
