tornadonoun [ C ]
uk/tɔːˈneɪ.dəʊ/us/tɔːrˈneɪ.doʊ/plural tornadoes or tornados US informal also twisterB2 a strong, dangerous wind that forms itself into an upside-down spinning cone and is able to destroy buildings as it moves across the ground
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Wind & winds
- airstream
- anemometer
- blast
- breeze
- choppy
- drafty
- dust devil
- El Niño
- eolian
- hurricane
- jet stream
- northeast
- prevailing
- sigh
- southeasterly
- southerly
- the Beaufort scale
- westerly
- wind gauge
- windsock
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Precipitation: stormy weather
Examples from literature
- After all, Kansas is a place where there are tornadoes almost every year.
- After the tornado hit in 2007, they wanted to help the town.
- At 9:45 p.m. the tornado hit the town.
- It was the strongest kind of tornado.
- Sometimes it is so windy that there are tornadoes like the one that destroyed Greensburg!
- Then they began to hear the loud noise a tornado makes.
- These people thought that another tornado might come and destroy the town again.