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tornade
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tourbillon de vents extrêmement violents prenant généralement naissance à la base d'un nuage d'orage et touchant le sol
A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that extends from the ground up to a cloud base, often visible as a funnel with swirling debris and dust. Tornadoes matter because they can be dangerous and destructive—while most are relatively small and short-lived, the most extreme ones can produce very high wind speeds and cause significant damage over large areas.
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Key facts
- Weather type.name
- Tornado
- Weather type.image
- F5 tornado Elie Manitoba 2007.jpg
- Weather type.caption
- A tornado approaching Elie, Manitoba, Canada in June 2007
- Weather type.area of occurrence
- Every continent except Antarctica
- Weather type.season
- Any, though primarily in spring or summer
- Weather type.effect
- Wind damage
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Research
1,059 papers- Recent developments in tornado theory and observations.ReviewReports on progress in physics. Physical Society (Great Britain) · 2024Rotunno R, Bluestein HBDOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/ad7f6a
- Tornado Preparation and Response in Feedlot Cattle.ReviewThe Veterinary clinics of North America. Food animal practice · 2018Boyajian SL, Lindberg NN, Gnad DPDOI: 10.1016/j.cvfa.2018.02.001
- Stunning tornado: severe pulmonary hypertension due to cor triatriatum sinister.European heart journal · 2023Zheng X, Cao J, Zhang GDOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehad505
- Tornado-associated fatalities--Arkansas, 1997.MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report · 1997Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Tornado sheltering: Challenges and solutions including public storm shelters.Journal of emergency management (Weston, Mass.) · 2024Croskery CD, Sherman-Morris KDOI: 10.5055/jem.0850
- The Natchez Tornado.Western journal of medicine and surgery · 1840
- TORNADO-seq: A Protocol for High-Throughput Targeted RNA-seq-Based Drug Screening in Organoids.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023Norkin M, Huelsken JDOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-3076-1_6
- Aortic tornado.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2005Babu-Narayan SV, Kilner PJDOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.038547
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- Subclass of
- extreme weather
- Has part
- funnel cloud
- Image
- F5 tornado Elie Manitoba 2007.jpg
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- has cause
- cumulonimbus
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Article · Français
Une tornade (de l'espagnol tornado, dérivé du verbe tornar, tourner) est un tourbillon de vents extrêmement violents, prenant naissance à la base d'un nuage d'orage (cumulonimbus) lorsque les conditions de cisaillement des vents sont favorables dans la basse atmosphère. De très faibles tornades peuvent également se développer sous des nuages d'averses (cumulus congestus). Ce phénomène météorologique a un pouvoir destructeur supérieur à celui d'un cyclone tropical au mètre carré, mais est de durée et d'étendue limitées : il concerne un corridor de quelques centaines de mètres de large sur quelques kilomètres de long. Certaines tornades ont engendré les vents les plus forts signalés à la surface du globe. Elles tuent chaque année de 300 à 400 personnes (selon une estimation de l'Organisation météorologique mondiale), dont 150 aux États-Unis.
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