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tornado

noun as in weather event

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A tornado hit Welch and Rawlings’ studio earlier this year and almost destroyed their archives, inspiring them to release the music as soon as they could.

So I back-burnered tornadoes for decades and nearly forgot about them.

I decided to book the Mayhem 1 tour with Extreme Chase Tours, one of some 20 stormchasing outfits in the country, which promises a 90 percent chance of seeing a tornado over the course of six days.

Imagine a straight length of hose, representing the length of a straight vortex like a tornado.

Meteorologist Victor Gensini of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb led a recent project to use the MJO, among other factors, to forecast tornado outbreaks in the central and eastern United States two to three weeks in advance.

At the time, sirens were not yet standard in tornado country.

About 9:30 p.m. on Palm Sunday in 1965, a tornado struck Toledo, Ohio.

The classic film that opens with a tornado sweeping through a Kansas farm made its debut 75 years ago in 1939.

Fallin has received high marks for her leadership after a tornado devastated the town of Moore.

And the town of Moore was no longer known just for the tornado that devastated it a year ago.

A fearsome thunderstorm or howling tornado of dust might reveal her fickleness of mood at any moment.

A tremendous tornado passed over the city of Natchez, very destructive to life and property.

A destructive tornado swept over a portion of Lapeer county, Michigan.

She was timid during any thunder shower and this was worse than a shower which threatened—a tornado seemed imminent.

He fell upon Mrs. Buttershaw, a slatternly and sour-visaged woman, and hurled at her a tornado of questions.

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On this page you'll find 23 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tornado, such as: twister, whirlwind, windstorm, cyclone, storm, and tempest.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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