tornado

Also known as tornadoes, whirlwind, twister

wervelwind met grote windsnelheden

AI overview

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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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: extreme weather
Has part: funnel cloud
Image: F5 tornado Elie Manitoba 2007.jpg

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Commons category: Tornadoes
topic's main category: Category:Tornado
Commons gallery: Tornado
Unicode character: 🌪
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
measurement scale: Enhanced Fujita Scale
has cause: cumulonimbus

Sources (7)

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Article · Nederlands

Een tornado (etymologie: Spaans, waarschijnlijk assimilatie van tronada, onweersbui, en tornar, draaien) of wervelstorm is een wervelwind met zeer grote windsnelheden, tot enkele honderden kilometers per uur, en een diameter van enkele tientallen meters tot een paar kilometer. Een tornado is meestal zichtbaar doordat waterdamp condenseert in de wervel of doordat materiaal van het aardoppervlak wordt opgetild.

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