a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud

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Definition of a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud in English English dictionary

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A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.

tornado

A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour.

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a vi-o-lent wind-storm char-ac-ter-ized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud