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  2. Tornado - Wikipedia

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    Tornadoes in the dissipating stage can resemble narrow tubes or ropes, and often curl or twist into complex shapes. These tornadoes are said to be "roping out", or becoming a "rope tornado". When they rope out, the length of their funnel increases, which forces the winds within the funnel to weaken due to conservation of angular momentum. [30]

  3. 10 types of tornadoes that occur in the US - AOL

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    Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...

  4. Portal:Tornadoes - Wikipedia

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    A prolonged and widespread tornado outbreak affected a large portion of the United States in late-May 2013 and early-June 2013. The outbreak was the result of a slow-moving but powerful storm system that produced several strong tornadoes across the Great Plains states, especially in Kansas and Oklahoma.

  5. File:May 20, 2013 Moore, Oklahoma tornado.JPG - Wikipedia

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    The following 34 pages use this file: 2013 Moore tornado; Cumulonimbus and aviation; List of tornadoes in Cleveland County, Oklahoma; List of tornadoes in the outbreak of May 18–21, 2013; Moore, Oklahoma; Supercell; Tornado; Tornadoes of 2013; Weather of 2013; Talk:2013 Moore tornado; Talk:List of F5, EF5, and IF5 tornadoes/Archive 1; User:Ks0stm

  6. Lists of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks - Wikipedia

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    These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred around the globe. Exact death and injury counts are not possible; especially for large events and events before 1955. Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks.

  7. Twisters meet hurricanes: The facts on tropical tornado ... - AOL

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    What hurricane-induced tornadoes lack in aesthetics, they can make up for in quantity. Due to Florida’s size and frequency of tropical impacts, we are a top 10 state for average annual tornado ...

  8. 1997 Jarrell tornado - Wikipedia

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    On May 27, 1997, a large and slow-moving F5 tornado caused extreme damage across portions of the Jarrell, Texas area. The tornado killed 27 residents of the town, mainly in a single subdivision, and inflicted approximately $40 million (1997 USD) in damages in its 13-minute, 5.1 miles (8.2 km) track.

  9. TORRO scale - Wikipedia

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    The TORRO tornado intensity scale (or T-Scale) is a scale measuring tornado intensity between T0 and T11. It was proposed by Terence Meaden of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) , a meteorological organisation in the United Kingdom , as an extension of the Beaufort scale .