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A gustnado is a brief, shallow surface-based vortex which forms within the downburst emanating from a thunderstorm. [2] The name is a portmanteau by elision of " gust front tornado ", as gustnadoes form due to non-tornadic straight-line wind features in the downdraft ( outflow ), specifically within the gust front of strong thunderstorms.
Jeruzal said the only gustnado images the agency had seen are the ones from Gun Lake, located about 19 miles (30 kilometers) south of Grand Rapids. He said the weather service was not aware of ...
Damage caused by the 1983 Los Angeles tornado This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The U.S. state of California experiences several tornadoes every year, with at least 489 twisters [nb 1] recorded since 1891. Among these are four fire whirls, a type of tornado that develops ...
Tornado outbreak sequence of May 7–11, 2008; Tornado outbreak of May 22–27, 2008. 2008 Parkersburg–New Hartford tornado; Tornado outbreak sequence of June 3–11, 2008; August 2008 European tornado outbreak; 2008 Poland tornado outbreak; 2008 Tropical Storm Fay tornado outbreak; November 2008 Carolinas tornado outbreak; Tornadoes of 2009
Area of occurrence: North America (particularly in central and southeastern regions of the United States colloquially known as Tornado Alley), South Africa, much of Europe (except most of the Alps), western and eastern Australia, New Zealand, Bangladesh and adjacent eastern India, Japan, the Philippines, and southeastern South America (Uruguay and Argentina)
A sequence of images showing the birth of a supercellular tornado. First, the rain-free cloud base lowers as a rotating wall cloud. This lowering concentrates into a funnel cloud, which continues descending simultaneously as a circulation builds near the surface, kicking up dust and other debris. Finally, the visible funnel extends to the ...
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During the late afternoon and evening of April 2, 2006, a series of tornadoes broke out in the central United States.It was the second major outbreak of 2006, in the same area that suffered considerable destruction in a previous outbreak on March 11 and 12, as well as an outbreak on November 15, 2005.