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satellite tornado
Weather; 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 ...
tornado outbreak
Weather; Wind
A tornado outbreak is the occurrence of multiple tornadoes spawned by the same synoptic scale weather system. The number of tornadoes required to qualify as an outbreak typically ...
tornado family
Weather; Wind
A tornado family is a series of tornadoes spawned by the same supercell thunderstorm. These families form a line of successive or parallel tornado paths and can cover a short span ...
landsprout
Weather; 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 ...
dust devil
Weather; Wind
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 ...
funnel cloud
Weather; Wind
A funnel cloud (generally the cause of a twister or tornado) is a funnel-shaped cloud of condensed water droplets, associated with a rotating column of wind and extending from the ...
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