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tornado

[tawr-nay-doh] / tɔrˈneɪ doʊ /


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The National Weather Service said a team was headed out to the course Thursday to determine if the damage was caused by a tornado, but they had not yet reached consensus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The tornado injured two people and caused damage to buildings with the strong winds flipping cars according to local media.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

I learned the hard way how important one of these can be, when a two-minute cyclone tornado came ashore Long Island Sound a few years ago and hit a major transmission line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Marie-Helene Bouissac, the regional deputy prefect, said the tornado was "an exceptional and highly traumatic event".

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

She spurred Arion, and they shot across the countryside, heading straight for the growing tornado.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

Unlike tornadoes or thunderstorms, which can cause widespread destruction in a matter of minutes, El Niño influences weather patterns over many months.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

There is also the potential for accompanying tornadoes, Melissa Watson, a Florida-based meteorologist at the National Weather Service told the BBC.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Severe convective storms are damaging storms that can include thunderstorms with lightning, tornadoes or destructive winds, according to the Insurance Information Institute.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

Earlier, residents of Kauai and Nihau were warned to watch for tornadoes -- though it was not immediately clear if these did in fact form.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

To know the truth about yourself, you have to know if you can eat tornadoes for food and shovel a mountain of poop.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Dozens of tornados have been reported and hundreds of counties have spent days under storm warnings since Wednesday.

From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2025

When severe thunderstorms move in, tornados just drop from the sky and begin sucking up anything in their paths.

From Salon ● May 29, 2024

In its latest eclipse forecast Sunday, the US National Weather Service warned of potential severe conditions including heavy rain, tornados and hail which may affect travel in Texas and nearby states.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2024

In Kentucky, crews were out Wednesday morning surveying damage and cleaning up from storms that had moved through, producing at least four tornados, officials said.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 3, 2024

Ivy let herself imagine they were at home, sitting on the worn brown leather couch in their living room, and there was no such thing as tornados and lost notebooks.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake


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