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Sentence Examples There is one painting of a dead cedar tree, with a blackish, twisted upside-down tornado on a warm desert hillside. The worst tornado I've ever seen before this was the one in southern Texas back in '96 that killed 40 people. This tornado hit Furnace county, Nebraska, and it is one of 100 twisters that ravaged must of the Midwest over the weekend. Like the moment in seminal disaster movie Twister when the tornado vanishes in a whisper, the fight was over. A tornado is a spiral of fast-moving air usually associated with a funnel-shaped cloud extending to the ground. At 8.16 pm law enforcement officials reported a tornado moving northeast at 15 mph. Environment Canada was criticized for issuing a tornado warning only after someone reported seeing a funnel cloud touch down. The sound is fading in and out, when the record is interrupted with news of an imminent tornado heading for Kansas. Just as the tornado was about to engulf me, it lifted up into the air, and retracted into the clouds. Forecaster Chris Rees, from PA Weather, said it sounded as though a funnel cloud or a mini tornado had hit the town. A sea funnel, taking the shape and appearance of an under-water tornado grew in size, swallowing up everything that came close enough to it. Reports had it pegged as an F4 tornado on the Fujita scale, topping out with wind speeds in excess of two hundred forty miles per hour. Tornadoes are measured by the Fujita scale, and this is shown as an F1 to F5 tornado. A business that is hit hard during a recession is not unlike a business whose building is flattened by a tornado. Wait too long and you get into tornado season, then heat, humidity, poison ivy and oak, snakes and most especially ticks. The picture on the front of the box is of a family on a couch, blown up into the air by a tornado. A tornado of energy, she pushes a vision that varies from minimalist, quasi-architectural purity to funky playfulness. It fuels the amazing fire tornado, which pirouettes in a fiery red glow at ten-minute intervals. Lily is spoiled, pleasure-loving, and has one of those society mothers who are as improvident as a tornado. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas all endure the occasional ice storm, hurricane and tornado that can cause electrical outages. Show More Sentences Centred on the village of Clonee, the tornado overturned cars, ripped up poles and trees and damaged houses and gardens. It's a jolly documentary that follows a couple of tornado chasers around Oklahoma and Texas, in search of the perfect adrenaline rush. Anyway what I missed was Italian and it is grammar day and we're doing stuff I could do standing on my head in a tornado, so, I'm not worried. The hairstylist had sprayed so much mousse and sprays on her hair that she thought it would take a tornado to make them budge. An estimated 150 to 160 horses were stabled at Ellis Park when the tornado hit. There have been many tornado warnings in inland areas as the squall lines have made their way inland. After noting a distinct updraft and some rather severe hail, I was almost certain we were about to be hit by a tornado. In many natural disasters, be it a blizzard, tornado or hurricane, the power is sometimes the first utility that fails. It is of old a native of the East, sister of the tornado, the earthquake, and the simoom. A tornado struck homes early yesterday in northern Louisiana and possible twisters were reported in Arkansas and Mississippi. The commercial centers on a tornado ripping through the storm-ravaged area, debris littering the blacktop as a traffic light sways in the gale. Last year during the tornado, a third-grader shared that his parents' best friends were trapped in their house. An area called tornado alley that stretches along the gulf coast and the South-Eastern States is where they are most prevalent. So what's next for Al, a role where he's just a deafening Tasmanian Devil-like tornado, spewing hoo-ha's and drops of midnight hair tonic? You're at your coolest and most collected when you're the eye of a tornado, surrounded by a frenzy of activity. It felt like a tornado of a thousand emotions was tearing away at my insides. I wasn't about to enter into an explanation of the tornado of confusion that was engulfing my life right now. It finally took a hard smack with Godzilla's tail to rouse him out of his glum state and knock us all over with a wind tornado of anger. Through the solid walls the undefined shapes entered, swirling around like the wind and almost having the appearance of a tornado. The tornado, a violently rotating column of air, extends from a thunderstorm to the ground. Show More Sentences A tornado is a funnel-shaped cloud that descends on land, creating havoc and destruction in its wake. We have come to see the tornado in all of its glory, not the ant-like humans that scurry about in its path. The newsman talked about how the town of Jonesboro in the northeastern edge of the state had been wiped off the map by an F5 tornado. The wind was now practically a tornado, leaves and twigs caught up in its ever-circling tempest. This tornado comes on the wake of a massive twister which struck the town of Jonesboro just a few hours ago. Conditions were ripe for twisters, and there were tornado warnings in counties all along the coast, with several reported touchdowns. This would be placed in the path of a tornado, and would relay back wind speeds, location of downdrafts and updrafts, number of vortices, etc. With an average of one tornado every three years, it's the twister capital of the world. I'm here to talk about a tornado, not listen to bickering between a Jesus freak and a druggie. The tornado, the overhead storm clouds and the city beneath all stood out in eerie green detail. Last week we had our first serious tornado watch with afternoon skies gone dark enough to activate the street lamps. A tornado or whirlwind was spotted in north Pembrokeshire last week by a local tornado enthusiast. Her hair streamed behind her and fanned out like a cloak and her skirts flew up around her slender legs in a tornado of color. To me it looked more like a large dust devil than a tornado but the weather boffins know so I have no argument. And the town of Moore was no longer known just for the tornado that devastated it a year ago. Red electricity crackled through the tornado, and the wind began to slow. Who can say where the bloodbath, the spiraling destruction, the grim tornado that strews cadavers in its wake could end? Know that a tornado watch means a twister is possible in your area and that a tornado warning means it has already been sighted and may be headed your way. Then, by reference to data from the original group of twisters, each tornado was assigned a Fujita scale rating, a path length over which damage would occur, and a path width. A powerful space tornado is sweeping through the Federation and threatening to spark a war with the Klingons, who believe the tornado is some sort of human super weapon. Show More Sentences When there is a tornado or hurricane or other natural disaster, good Samaritans are quick to donate clothes and toys for children. Heckart, as Baker, unexpectedly storms into Don's apartment like a tornado, approaching every flaw of Don's apartment with a zinger or guilt-inducing remark. Veteran storm chaser Tim Samaras died Friday in the El Reno, Oklahoma, tornado, along with his son Paul and colleague Carl Young. So far, Caitria is proudest of the time she visited the small town of Forney, Texas, ravaged by an EF3 tornado last April. His eyes were stormy green, like a tempestuous patch of sky right before the tornado siren goes off, with a layer of translucent blue like the heavens beneath fluffy clouds. A tornado does not just topple trees, it tears off their branches and twists their trunks until they splinter. If I didn't get a tornado by the end of this hunt then there was no way I could return to my homeland in honor and would have to commit seppuku in a cornfield. A new tornado watch has just been issued right here, covering the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, southward down to just west of Houston, includes the Austin-San Antonio area. The wind got stronger as clouds gathered and a tornado began to form. They found that instead of polarization, the new phase creates what the researchers call a toroid moment, which rotates in a circular fashion like a vortex or a tornado. I smile weakly at him but behind the cool countenance there is a rumbling tornado of anger, fear, denial, regret, devastation and a certain element of guilt. Jeanna's eye seemed to contain the savage winds of a tornado. Despite the absence of Decira, the pace did not slow down a bit, and the world continued to spin, catching all who remained in its tornado of confusion. They live in a mobile home in Arkansas, in the middle of tornado alley. Well, sometimes in Indianapolis, you know, that's tornado alley there and it's a lot of rural areas, a lot of agriculture still in that part of the state. Did they know that, in effect, they were in the tornado alley for Ivan? In August 1999, while setting up for a trade show in Utah, the two men were caught in a tornado that destroyed their sewing machines and sent them diving for cover. I should be all over this thing like a tornado on a trailer park. Fallin has received high marks for her leadership after a tornado devastated the town of Moore. As a child of tornado alley myself, I endorse the sentiment in this American Prospect piece by Monica Potts. Show More Sentences I lived in tornado alley for 30 years and I was lucky because my house was always on the outskirts. Maybe this first and most forcefully got my attention in tornado alley but it continues. The energy that was once spent in a constructive fashion, rooting for teamwork and friendship, will be transformed into a tornado of terror and minor misdemeanors. The twister was recorded as a F4 tornado, the second-highest intensity on the Fujita scale. One tornado blasted apart a theatre just minutes after a movie ended. A tornado eventually reaches a stage where it runs out of momentum and energy and begins to twist itself into a rope shape, twists even further and then dies away. A tornado obliterated a 461-point silver maple in Polk County, Iowa. Howling voices broke into the silence, and the Orcs swept across the land like a tornado, ready to mow down anything and everything that might stand in their way. He even spent a couple of weeks at a military boot camp to prepare, braving extremes of weather from blistering heat to thunderstorms and a tornado. Moore, Oklahoma, was whacked with a mile-wide tornado Monday, reducing much of the Oklahoma City suburb to rubble. For the first time in more than 300 years, a tornado touched down in Pittsburgh on June 2, 1998, ripping off roofs, uprooting trees and downing power lines. At least one car was overturned and others had windows smashed by what locals described as a mini tornado that swept through the area shortly before 1pm. The tornado struck the factory's paint shop, body shop and powerhouse. Martin and I jumped out of the car, and I looked at the tornado, and estimated it to be just a mile away from us, and it was going fifty miles an hour. There was some suggestion elsewhere that the end tip of a tornado is actually a culminant gravitation centre of attraction, whether the tornado has touched down or not. The weather we have seen over the last few days is conducive to a tornado, or a funnel cloud as we call them, and we had one near Halton on Monday as well. This tornado, like the others, gusted out, and we continued to watch a series of gustnados form after the main tornado in the outflow region of the storm. In late April, a tornado struck near Donovan, killing seventy-five people. A pressure drop of 1130 millibars was measured, which validated several theories concerning the existence of those pressures inside a tornado. On 28 July 2005, a tornado caused extensive damage to buildings in the triangle, forcing many restaurants to close. Show More Sentences In 2011, parts of East Tennessee, including Hamilton County and Apison in Bradley County, were devastated by the April 2011 tornado outbreak. On June 9, 1953 a F4 tornado touched down in Petersham, Massachusetts northwest of Worcester. The tornado tore through 48 miles of Worcester County including a large area of the city of Worcester. These ice giants float down from Greenland in summer and Newfoundlanders follow them the way tornado freaks chase the big storm. The Worcester Tornado would be the most deadly tornado to ever hit Massachusetts. The deadliest tornado in New England history, it damaged a large part of the city and surrounding towns. Children can learn how to produce Claymation art, make paper and a tornado. A rotating updraft within this 20-kilometer-high thunderstorm sired a violent tornado. Tornadoes are rare in the city itself, but the March 14, 2008 EF2 tornado damaged prominent structures in downtown Atlanta. The entire state is vulnerable to a tornado strike, with the extreme southern portion of the state slightly less so than the rest of the state. The Germans unleashed a tornado of artillery and rifle fire, grenades, hand bombs and trench mortars. The last reported tornado occurred on 14 September 2006, causing trees to uproot and signal failures at Leeds City railway station. Mesocyclones form as warm core cyclones over land, and can lead to tornado formation. A dog is reported to have run out of the door, been hurled around as if by a small tornado, and fallen dead to the ground. Tenthly, after Hurricane Sandy and the giant tornado in Oklahoma, cyber criminals sent emails requesting donations for relief efforts. Another has constructed a safe room in its new office, which was built after a tornado destroyed its previous office. The new building will include a 9,000-square-foot safe room able to withstand an EF-5 tornado, which can pack winds of 200 mph. A tornado wrecked his flagship, Beverly Hills went belly up and his chef left. At the time, sirens were not yet standard in tornado country. Fifteen years later, Worcester was hit by a tornado that killed 94 people. Show More Sentences Preparing for the unexpected isn't just for communities in a hurricane zone or a tornado corridor, and emergency plans aren't just about the usuals like fires and floods. Tornadoes are destructive events but a tornado isn't even in the same realm as an atomic bomb, which in turn is dwarfed by the destruction inherent in a thermonuclear weapon. Debris from the tornado landed as far away as Dedham, Massachusetts. For this reason, many communities in the very southern portions of the state are equipped with tornado sirens to warn residents of approaching tornadoes. His Tornado fighter bomber was downed on January 16 during the first wave of air strikes in the '91 Gulf War. Leaving Ottowa for Winnipeg by train to travel across the wheat belt, the train arrived in Calgary having been delayed by a Tornado. The Ministry of Defence confirmed an RAF Tornado F3 fighter would have been scrambled if the plane had been hijacked. A highlight of the event was a flypast by an F3 Tornado piloted by Flight Lieutenant Sally-Ann Cronin of 25 Fighter Squadron. The Tornado is a two-seat, all-weather, multi-role combat aircraft, in use with the armed forces of the UK, Germany, Italy and Saudi Arabia. Among the highlights expected will be the Red Arrows themselves and RAF jet fighters, including the Tornado and the Harrier Jump-Jet. Tornado hazard in such regions is probably somewhat higher than the model predicts. The company has more than 50 years experience in fighter jet radar equipment, including systems for the Tornado and Sea Harrier jets. However, officials did confirm that a British Tornado fighter bomber had been reportedly shot down by a US-operated Patriot missile near the Kuwaiti border. Figs 6 and 7 depict the coil embolisation technique and the Tornado coil, respectively. Malaysia and Oman cancelled their arranged Tornado orders in the early 1990s, both choosing to procure the Hawk, instead. Portions of the southern border have been almost as vulnerable historically as states further west and in Tornado Alley. As well as Airbus, British Aerospace and DASA were partners in the Panavia Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft projects. Flight Lieutenant Juliette Fleming and Squadron Leader Nikki Thomas recently were the first Tornado GR4 crew. The ban was lifted for Tornado attack jets but remained on Hawk T1, Hawk T2 and Tucano flights while the RAF reviewed evidence on those aircraft. Police said they got away with a Tornado 43cc minibike, a petrol scooter, two Marver fishing poles and a fishing tackle box. Show More Sentences In September 2009, four RAF Typhoons were deployed to RAF Mount Pleasant replacing the Tornado F3s defending the Falkland Islands. An RAF Tornado GR4 comes into land through the heat haze, at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. The motoring show Top Gear featured a race including LNER A1 60163 Tornado running up this line from London to Edinburgh. In November 2008, a new build main line steam locomotive, 60163 Tornado, was tested on UK mainlines for eventual charter and tour use. The name continues the storm theme started by the Panavia Tornado. Air Vice-Marshal Walker is head of the RAF's elite One Group and in operational control of all our Typhoon, Tornado, Jaguar and Harrier fighters and bombers. The system is cooled by Vigor's Tornado Air Vent with triple 120MM case fan, and powered by Tagan TG1100-U95 TurboJet NVIDIA-SLI-certified 1100 watt power supply. As per the Flightglobal's World Air Forces directory for 2013, Saudi Arabia's Tornado inventory comprises 82 aircraft in the interdictor strike variant. Tornado warnings indicate imminent danger to life and property and people should be prepared to go immediately underground to a basement, storm cellar or an interior room. Examples from Classical Literature It lasted two and a half hours, that tornado, and it never relaxed in intensity. Blowin' hot an' cold, rangin' from a balmy breeze through a rain shower or a thunder-storm, up to a snortin' tornado. The Turks directed a perfect tornado of rifle, Maxim, and pompom fire on 200 men who made a dash down the gangway. This did not matter, because he knew they must secure the sail before the tornado broke, and he pulled at the downhaul. It was just south of Cape Verde that I met my first tornado. The idea in turn lets director Steven Quale depict the entire tornado drama through the lenses of his characters on screen. Joplin Mayor Mark Rehr said the tornado affected nearly four square kilometers in Joplin. Not one artilleryman in a million could hit a tornado in a vital part. They're supposed to tornado into your spread and ball up in your face, whiffling down from the snow goose heavens. As of Thursday, February 7, 2008 Farmers has received more than 90 claims from the recent wind storm and tornado in the Gassville, Arkansas area. The post office next to their home in Castalian, Tennessee, was flattened by the tornado and two more bodies were found nearby. As easy to strive with the tornado as with this wind of pain and death! The tornado, overpassing river and plain, burst on the southern hills. I ain't forgot that hop, skip and jump, walloping Australian tornado! It was the whiffling energy of the tornado that alone saved her. Amid this tornado, an entire caravan, disorganized, broken, and overthrown, was disappearing beneath an avalanche of sand. In Africa you have the upas, the fierce compound of simoom and tornado. Nearby, 89-year-old DAV member Wilson Ruffin and his wife, Edna, feared the worst as tornado winds pulled and pushed at their home and shattered cars into junk. Only the infidel sharks in the audacious seas may give ear to such words, when, with tornado brow, and eyes of red murder, and foam-glued lips, Ahab leaped after his prey. The Tornado and giaour, with numerous other steam-vessels, accompanied the fleet. Show More Sentences The Tornado, exerting her steam-powers to the utmost, was on her way back to balaclava. The Black Tornado led 14-10 at halftime before finding its rhythm and taking advantage of Axemen turnovers. I've always used compact, open whistles like the Acme Thunderer and Tornado. Find more words! 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