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Also known as tornadoes, whirlwind, twister

A tornado, also known as a twister, is a rapidly rotating column of air that extends vertically from the surface of the Earth to the base of a cumulonimbus or cumulus cloud. Tornadoes are often (but not always) visible in the form of a condensation funnel originating from the cloud base, with a cloud of rotating debris and dust close to the ground. Most tornadoes have wind speeds less than , are about across, and travel several kilometers (a few miles) before dissipating. The most extreme tornadoes can attain wind speeds of more than , can be more than in diameter, and can stay on the ground f

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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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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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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

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