Crossword clues for tornadoes
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of tornado English)
WordNet
See tornado
Usage examples of "tornadoes".
The sky looked balmy and clear and full of gentle naïveté, as if tornadoes were all someone else's fault.
Before heavy weather, there had been about nine hundred tornadoes every year in the United States.
Before heavy weather, a year's worth of tornadoes killed about a hundred people and caused about $200 million (constant 1975 dollars) in damage.
Now, despite vastly better warning systems, tornadoes killed about a thousand people a year, and the damage was impossible to estimate accurately because the basic economic nature of both "value" and "currency" had gone nonlinear.
The Troupe attracted all kinds of wannabes, most of them rather nutty, but every once in a while some anxious weedy-looking guy would show up at camp who didn't give a shit about tornadoes and really, really wanted Jerry to forget all about it and get back to proving how many soap bubbles could fit inside a collapsing torus in hyperspace.
Those tornadoes were only a quarter of a mile or so away and I never once heard the sounds of a damn freight train.
I hoped that the tornadoes had blown themselves out before they reached population centers.
The first one spawned the tornadoes and the second exploded on impact.
The devastation from the tornadoes alone caused several billions of dollars worth of damage.
And if there were indeed tornadoes, it would shut down the whole investigation while everyone dove for cover.
F-scale tornadoes of magnitude 2 or even 3, with two-hundred-mile-an-hour winds and devastating force, were possible.
In Cry County, tornadoes almost always moved from southwest to northeast.
He was taken aback: here, even with the threat of tornadoes, the killings were still the first thing on everyone’s mind.
The greatest danger now, Pendergast knew, came not from rain and hail, but from the possibility of high-F-scale tornadoes that could form at any time along the flanks of the storm.
If gentle Edom spoke of killer tornadoes or if dear Jacob was reminded of massive explosions, each dwelt not on horrible death, as usual, but on feats of courage in the midst of dire catastrophe, recounting astonishing rescues and miraculous escapes.