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  Tornado outbreak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
While there is no single agreed upon definition, generally more than six tornadoes in a day in the same region is considered a tornado outbreak.
A series of continuous or near continuous tornado outbreaks is a tornado outbreak sequence.
The biggest tornado outbreak on record — with 148 tornadoes, most significantly including six F5 and 24 F4 tornadoes — occurred on April 3-April 4, 1974 across the United States and Canada.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tornado_outbreak   (236 words)

  
 Tornado
A tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
Many tornadoes are the tail end of a mesocyclone and they have a characteristic "hook echo" signature on a radar screen.
Tornadoes do occur throughout the world; the most tornado-prone region of the world, as measured by number of tornadoes per unit area, is the United Kingdom, especially England.
www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/t/to/tornado.html   (760 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Tornado   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air which is in contact with both a cumulonimbus (or, in rare cases, cumulus) cloud base and the surface of the earth.
A series of continuous tornado outbreaks is known as a tornado outbreak sequence, with significant occurrences in May 1917, 1930, 1949, and 2003.
Tornadoes do occur throughout the world as well; the most tornado-prone region of the world (outside North America), as measured by number of reported tornadoes per unit area, is the Netherlands, followed by the United Kingdom (especially England).
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Tornado   (3369 words)

  
 Tornado
Tornadoes develop from severe thunderstorms, usually spawned from squall lines and supercell thunderstorms, though they sometimes happen as a result of a hurricane.
Tornadoes are inextricably associated with lightning, and tornadoes (as well as dust devils) exhibit enormous electromagnetic fields that are inexplicable by convection models.
The damage from a tornado is a result of the high wind velocity and wind-blown debris, as well as from electromagnetic effects, which frequently cause "freak" occurrences like wood impaling metal or stone, dried grasses (straw) impaling wood or animals and other similar effects inexplicable by fluid dynamics alone.
encyclopedia.codeboy.net /wikipedia/t/to/tornado.html   (1613 words)

  
 List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred around the globe.
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks, and for similar reasons injuries are listed for all events only before 1950.
Tornado hit elementary school cafeteria while students were having lunch
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks   (885 words)

  
 Tornado - WikiGadugi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
tornadoes are ᎤᎾᏅᏛ ᎾᏍᎩᎾᎢ ᎠᎴᏂᏙᎲ ᏭᎶᏍᏍᏔᏅ destructive ᎠᎴ are ᎤᏠᏱᎭ ᎬᎪᏩᏛᏗ ᎤᏍᏆᎸᎲ to ᎠᎹ vapor ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ ᎡᎳᏗ pressure condensation ᎠᎴ debris ᏂᏛᎴᏅᏓ ᎯᎠ ᎦᏙᎯ.
a ᎧᏁᏉᎥᎢ ᎤᏠᏱᎭ ᎥᎿᎢ ᏫᎬᎵᏱᎵᏍ ᎤᏃᎴ outbreaks ᎨᏍᎢ ᎤᎾᏅᏛ as a tornado outbreak sequence, ᎬᏙᏗ significant occurrences ᎭᏫᎾᏗᏢ ᎠᎾᏍᎬᏘ 1917, 1930, 1949, ᎠᎴ 2003.
tornadoes ᎿᏛᎦ ᏄᎵᏍᏔᏅ ᏂᎦᏅᎯᏍ ᎯᎠ ᎡᎶᎯ as ᎠᏔᎴᏍ ᎠᎹᏱ; ᎯᎠ ᎤᎪᏗᏗ ᎤᏃᎴ-ᎠᏞᏴᏍᏙᏗ ᎤᏔᏂᏗ ᎦᏙᎯ ᎥᎿᎢ ᎯᎠ ᎡᎶᎯ (ᏙᏯᏗᏢ North America), as measured ᎾᎥᎢ ᏍᏍᏗ ᎥᎿᎢ ᎬᏂᎨᏍ ᎢᎬᏁᎸ tornadoes ᎾᏍᎩ ᎢᎬᏂᏍᏍᎩ ᏌᏊᎭ ᎡᏍᎦᏂ, ᎨᏍᎢ ᎯᎠ netherlands, ᎠᏍᏓᏩᏛᏓ ᎾᎥᎢ ᎯᎠ united ᎠᏰᎵ ᎤᎾᏙᏢᏍ (ᎾᏍᎩ ᎨᏍᎢ England).
www.merkeylaw.com /wiki/Tornado   (2458 words)

  
 May 2003 Tornado Outbreaks -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The May 2003 Tornado Outbreaks in the United States was a cluster of tornado events that occurred from May 4 to May 10, 2003.
An upper-end F3 tornado was the last major and the most destructive tornado of this specific outbreak, devastating the town of South Pekin, Illinois which was previously devastated during a major tornado outbreak in 1938.
The final killer tornado of the event was an early morning tornado that hit in Harrodsburg, Kentucky on May 11.
www.singaporegrid.com /mediawiki/index.php/The_Outbreak_of_2003   (685 words)

  
 Salt Lake City Tornado - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Salt Lake City Tornado was a rare and unusual tornado event that occurred at Salt Lake City, Utah on August 11, 1999.
It was among the most notable tornado to hit west of Kansas in the 20th century, and the first tornado to hit in Utah that resulted in a death.
Tornadoes are generally weak west of Colorado, but Western states have had their share of tornadoes.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Salt_Lake_City_Tornado   (395 words)

  
 math lessons - Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak
The tornadoes were nearly relentless, occurring in a 450-mile swath west-to-east from Clinton County, Iowa, to Cuyahoga County, Ohio, and a 200-mile swath north-to-south from Kent County, Michigan, to Montgomery County, Indiana.
This is the third deadliest day for tornadoes on record, trailing the Super Outbreak of April 3, 1974, which killed 315 and the outbreak that included the Tri-State Tornado which killed 747.
The tornado slid down a hill and destroyed the small community of Island Lake, killing one more person before ascending back into the clouds at 3:42 P.M. This was one of a handful of F4 tornadoes that occurred during this outbreak.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/The_Palm_Sunday_Tornado_Outbreak   (1233 words)

  
 Tornado - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tornadoes, lightning, and sometimes hail are associated with thunderstorms.
Tornadoes normally rotate in a cyclonic direction as the warm air thunderstorms usually form in sweeps north and jet streams come from the west, creating a situation in which the storms rotate.
Tornado damage to man-made structures is the result of high wind velocity and the associated wind-blown debris.
www.biocrawler.com /w/index.php/Tornado   (2007 words)

  
 math lessons - Nashville Tornado of 1998
The Nashville Tornado of 1998 is the tornado event that occurred on April 16, 1998.
It is among a slew of rather strong tornadoes that hit large cities at the tail end of the 20th century.
The tornado crossed Nashville, Tennessee at around 3:45 P.M. At least 100 people were injured and Vanderbilt University student Kevin Longinotti was trapped under a fallen tree in Centennial Park and later died from his injuries.
www.mathdaily.com /lessons/Nashville_Tornado_of_1998   (495 words)

  
 Andover, Kansas Tornado : search word   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Andover, Kansas Tornado is among the most well-known and most photogenic tornadoes of the 20th century.
It was the most notable tornado of nearly 70 that hit Kansas and Oklahoma on April 26, 1991.
The tornado continues on its path as it rolls into the Golden Spur Mobile Home Park at around 6:35 P.M. It is the now F5 on the Fujita scale.
www.searchword.org /an/andover,-kansas-tornado.html   (824 words)

  
 The Online Tornado FAQ (by Roger Edwards, SPC)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Tornadoes were, for most, dark and mysterious menaces of unfathomable power, fast-striking monsters from the sky capable of sudden and unpredictable acts of death and devastation.
This is storm-chaser slang for a non-supercell tornado.
Tornado photogrammetry is the use of film or video to determine the speed of movement of some kind of tracer: usually a large piece of debris or a persistent cloud element.
www.spc.noaa.gov /faq/tornado   (13814 words)

  
 List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks - TheBestLinks.com - April 6, April 26, April 16, August 28, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks - TheBestLinks.com - April 6, April 26, April 16, August 28,...
List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks, April 6, April 26, April 16, August 28...
These are some famous tornadoes and tornado outbreaks that have occurred in the United States over the past few centuries.
www.thebestlinks.com /List_of_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks.html   (105 words)

  
 NOAA Home Page - Tornadoes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air extending from a thunderstorm to the ground.
In the southern states, peak tornado season is March through May, while peak months in the northern states are during the summer.
The April 3-4, 1974 Super Outbreak was the largest known outbreak of tornadoes, with 148 tornadoes in 11 states.
www.noaa.gov /tornadoes.html   (563 words)

  
 USATODAY.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The ultimate source of information about the history and climatology of USA tornadoes is the book, Significant Tornadoes: 1680-1991 by Tom Grazulis, head of the Tornado Project.
For more detailed information about tornadoes before 1995, you will probably have to go to microfilm copies of local newspapers from around the time and place the tornado hit.
A tornado that hit Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on July 31, 1987, was one of that nation's major natural disasters.
www.usatoday.com /weather/tornado/wthist0.htm   (878 words)

  
 Waco Tornado   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Waco Tornado was the tornado that hit in Waco, Texas on May 11, 1953.
According to an old Native American legend, tornadoes could not hit in Waco.
The Waco Tornado remains Texas' deadliest in its history and the nation's tenth deadliest.
www.askfactmaster.com /Waco_Tornado   (171 words)

  
 Plainfield Tornado   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Plainfield Tornado occurred on August 28, 1990.
This tornado formed in a matter of hours from a HP (High-Precipitation) supercell.
This was the strongest tornado to hit in Illinois since The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak tornado that occurred at Lake Zurich and Oak Park.
www.centipedia.com /articles/The_Plainfield_Tornado   (176 words)

  
 Tornado!--Weather lesson plan (grades 6-8)--DiscoverySchool.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Assume the tornado is moving at 60 mph and is on the ground for six minutes.
They should assume the funnel of the tornado is 1/8 mile across, the tornado is moving at 60 miles per hour, and it is on the ground for six minutes.
During the day, 33 tornadoes were reported as supercells erupted and moved across the state during the afternoon and evening hours.
school.discovery.com /lessonplans/programs/ragingplanet-tornado   (1413 words)

  
 outbreaks - OneLook Dictionary Search
We found 4 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word outbreaks:
Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "outbreaks" is defined.
Phrases that include outbreaks: extended tornado outbreaks, famous tornadoes and tornado outbreaks, illinois canada tornado outbreaks, list of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks, tornado outbreaks
www.onelook.com /?w=outbreaks   (112 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Middle East Open Encyclopedia: The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak; all previous versions may be viewed here.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=The_Palm_Sunday_Tornado_Outbreak   (173 words)

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