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 tornado [tɒ:'neidәu]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 旋风, 龙卷风, 大雷雨



    tornado
    tornadoes
    [ noun ]
    1. a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground

      2. <noun.phenomenon>
    2. a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive

      3. <noun.artifact>


    Tornado \Tor*na"do\, n.; pl. {Tornadoes}. [From Sp. or Pg.
    tornar to turn, return, L. tornare to turn, hence, a whirling
    wind. The Sp. & Pg. tornada is a return. See {Turn}.]
    A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest
    distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive
    motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning,
    and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and
    small breadth; a small cyclone.

    1. A funnel cloud becomes a tornado once it touches the ground.
    2. Three of the tornado victims, a couple and their infant son, died when their mobile home in Scott was battered by the last of the tornadoes to hit the state, authorities said.
    3. In Oklahoma City, high winds destroyed a mobile home in the Sherwood Homes trailer park, said authorities, who could not confirm reports of a tornado.
    4. A tornado blew over a mobile home and tore the roofs off some other buildings in Point Harbor, but no injuries were reported, the weather service said.
    5. The tornado never came, but when dawn arrived, it was a shock to see so much devastation, including my own house in ruins.
    6. Police and witnesses said the funnel cloud then skipped across the river and damaged a dozen houses in Camden, N.J. The weather service said it had not investigated the Camden damage and could not confirm a tornado there.
    7. Heavy thunderstorms and at least one tornado developed Sunday over the South, and wet weather was scattered elsewhere across the central part of the nation.
    8. It didn't rain anymore after the tornado, so not a lot of homes were water-soaked.
    9. Cleanup efforts continued in the southeastern South Dakota towns of Beresford and Alcester where a tornado swept through the area causing more than $1 million in damage to 24 farms.
    10. Michael Hejka, 28, arrived at his friend's house five minutes before the tornado hit.
    11. In rural North Woodbury, Ohio, a tornado destroyed an undetermined number of houses and buildings Friday in the village of about 75 people, said Morrow County Disaster Services director Dick Williams.
    12. In the West, a thunderstorm in northwestern Montana spawned a tornado near Shelby.
    13. In Texas, authorities reported a tornado Monday evening at Smithpoint and Double Bayou.
    14. On Treasure Island on Florida's Gulf Coast, the storms loosed a tornado that caused minor damage to rooftops and cars.
    15. In central Kansas, a tornado that swept through Ellis County on Wednesday evening destroyed six homes and several outbuildings, officials said Thursday.
    16. About 75 miles inland from the historic port city of Charleston, S.C, a tornado touched down in a sparsly populated area and devastated mobile homes, said Bob Kelly, a meteorologist with the Columbia office of the National Weather Service.
    17. It said a tornado touched down early Thursday at an airport in Camaguey city, destroying five Soviet-built MiG-21 fighter planes and several buildings.
    18. The death toll from the tornado that ripped through central Bangladesh passed 800 today when searchers found 14 bodies in the ruins of houses and two other people died of injuries, officials said.
    19. A tornado destroyed a building and damaged trees during the afternoon near Columbus, Texas, in Colorado County, but no injuries were reported, the National Weather Service reported.
    20. Two more people in Indiana died Sunday in a second wave of storms that spawned one tornado.
    21. A tornado touched down near Clay Center, destroying an unoccupied mobile home and damaging barns and hog sheds.
    22. The hurricane center posted a tornado watch for portions of north Florida and southern Georgia through the evening.
    23. He was in his patrol car when he saw a tornado.
    24. Wernow said she spoke with a man who heard about the tornado and rushed to the school.
    25. A tornado swept through a trailer home park early Thursday, injuring 24 people, including a boy who witnesses said was freed by a man who managed to lift the corner of the mobile home that had pinned him down.
    26. The outbreak was the worst in Indiana since a tornado barrage in 1974 killed 47 people.
    27. A storm-spawned tornado swept through two of Nashville's southern suburbs just after dawn Saturday, killing one person, injuring 15 and destroying 20 buildings in a three-mile-long path.
    28. "We had just had our tornado drill last week so that children knew exactly what to do," said Gloria Truman, the school secretary. "They were out of the classroom and in the hallway in about 15 seconds.
    29. Currently the National Weather Service issues a tornado watch when conditions exist which could spawn a tornado, but ground spotters have to spot the tornadoes to issue actual warnings.
    30. Currently the National Weather Service issues a tornado watch when conditions exist which could spawn a tornado, but ground spotters have to spot the tornadoes to issue actual warnings.
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