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A blossary of tornadoes and related terms.

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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 ...

Domain: Weather; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Wind

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 ...

Domain: Weather; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Wind

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, ...

Domain: Geography; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Geography

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 ...

Domain: Weather; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Wind

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 ...

Domain: Weather; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Wind

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 ...

Domain: Weather; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Wind

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 ...

Domain: Weather; Отрасль/сфера деятельности: Wind

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