tornado

IPA: tɔrnˈeɪdoʊ

(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a mobile, twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.

Examples of "tornado" in Sentences

The red box you can see outlined there is what we call a tornado watch.
In 1887, nervous superiors sent him new instructions: the word tornado was banned from his forecasts.
No field forecasters dared use the word tornado for fear of inciting not just panic but their supervisors.
SEGUI: Tell me what your thoughts were when you saw the tornado, what you call a tornado up on the horizon.
The U.S. Weather Bureau had banned the word tornado from its forecasts and warnings a half-century earlier—no need to frighten people.
By contrast, before 1950 the use of the term tornado in forecasts was discouraged because of a fear that predicting them would cause panic.
In 1938, as fatalities rose, the Weather Bureau lifted its ban on the use of the word tornado but mainly in its alerts to emergency personnel, not to the public.
The agency that had been reluctant for decades even to mention the word tornado out of concern for public panic was now trying to create as much fear as possible—so that people would take some steps to protect themselves.
The data we are collecting will hopefully allow engineers to construct more sound structures to prevent massive damage and we hope to create an effective warning system which will warn residents if a tornado is about to hit their area.