Tornado - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air which is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. Tornadoes co...
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A1) What is a hurricane, typhoon, or tropical cyclone? ... A7) What is an extratropical cyclone ? ... L4 What parts of a tropical cyclone are most favored for tornado formation?
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Question:; What's the difference between a cyclone, a hurricane, and a tornado? ... A tornado has the tightest focus--generally less than a mile across. Although usually over in a few minutes, its wind can rotate at up to an incredible 300 mph and speed ahead at 40 mph. Hurricane winds typically may swirl at 100 mph,
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www.khorsheed.com/pages/tornado.html
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RFC 1 - Host Software ... a hurricane has a higher windspeed than a tropicle storm though other than that it's the same a cyclone is a tornado which has alot higher windspeed it is much smaller and results from thunder storms the biggest ever cyclone was a mile across though most are only about ten to thirty feet.
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A tornado is a cyclone, but when comparing a tornado with a tropical cyclone there is a difference. The size of a tropical cyclone is much larger than that of a tornado. ... cyclones have a bigger diameter as compared to tornadoes. cyclones are usually accompanied by a rainfall but tornadoes are not accompanied by...
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Cyclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In meteorology, a cyclone refers to an area of closed, circular fluid motion rotating in the same direction as the Earth . This is usually characterized by inward spiraling winds that rotate counter...
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and hurricanes, typhoons and cyclones. So many words are blowing around in weather vocabulary that seem to have only subtle differences in usage. Just why do we need hurricane and typhoon, cyclone and tornado, isn't just one or two words enough?
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The Tornado Project is a small company that researches, compiles and makes tornado information available to tornado and severe weather enthusiasts, the public, the meteorological community and emergency management officials in the form of tornado videos, tornado books, and tornado posters. ... Eight days after the tornado,
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www.tornadoproject.com/
www.tornadoproject.com/
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A tropical cyclone, however, has a diameter on the scale of 100s of *kilometers* and is comprised of several to dozens of convective storms. ... An interesting side note is that tropical cyclones at landfall often provide the conditions necessary for tornado formation.
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