tornado
Violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the earth's surface and a cumulonimbus cloud in the air
Also known as tornadoes · whirlwind · twister
- Instance of
- Subclass of
Overview
All data
95 statements · 16% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Measurement scale
- Enhanced Fujita Scale applies to jurisdiction: Canada, United States
- Different from
- fire whirl criterion used: creation
- Tornado criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items
- Q55594227 criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items
- dust devil
- snowspout
On other databases
74 identifiers linking tornado across the web's reference databases
- Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID300054738
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlineviesulas
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/8977
- BabelNet ID00077667n
- Banglapedia ID (Bangla edition)টর্নেডো
- BBC News topic IDc8dnqdmngv6t
- BBC Things IDd3da328e-494b-4bd3-9977-b3a5deb9c07a
- BNCF Thesaurus ID39017
- Britannica Kids kids level article ID399626
- Britannica Kids scholars level article ID106250
- Britannica Kids students level article ID338630
- CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas IDtornadoes-2377
- Canadian Encyclopedia article IDtornado
- Comic Vine ID4015-56959
- Cultureel Woordenboek IDaarde-weer-en-klimaat/tornado
- De Agostini IDTornado
- Dewey Decimal Classification363.34923
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDscience/tornado
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDtornades-et-trombes
- Encyclopedia of Alabama IDh-3985
- Encyclopedia of Alabama ID (new schema)tornadoes
- Encyclopedia of Chicago ID1261
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)2ozvPL
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)46917
- Encyclopedia of the Great Plains IDpe.061
- Environment Ontology ID01001482
- Fandom article IDru.apocalypse:Торнадо
- France 24 topic ID (French)tornade
- Freebase ID/m/09c5_
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3015-3669
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDConcepts/Twister
- GND ID4185727-6
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDtornado
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0146948
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDtornado
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)3839323
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDtornado-ec8749
- Handbook of Texas IDydt01
- Harper's tagtornadoes
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID61856
- IMDb keywordtornado
- J9U entity ID987007541461605171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)tornadoes
- Kansapedia ID12223
- KBpedia IDTornadoAsObject
- Klexikon article IDTornado
- Krugosvet article (archived)nauka_i_tehnika/fizika/SMERCHI_I_TORNADO.html
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85136123
- MeSH descriptor IDD055869
- MeSH tree codeG16.500.750.775.745
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)190930322
- Museum-digital tag ID74367
- NALT ID64240
- NDL Authority ID00572733
- NE.se IDtromb
- New York Times topic IDsubject/tornadoes
- NL CR AUT IDph173800
- OmegaWiki Defined Meaning3787
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3988198
- OpenAlex IDC190930322
- Proleksis enciklopedija ID48984
- PSH ID4132
- Quora topic IDTornadoes
- Reddit topic ID (obsolete)tornado
- Subreddittornado
- SVKKL authority IDh0007142-tornada
- The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture IDTO008
- UMLS CUIC0040476
- UNDRR-ISC Hazard Information Profile IDMH0305
- USGS Thesaurus ID1178
- Vikidia article IDen:Tornado
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID11539883-n
- Yale LUX IDconcept/7b54898e-0c03-4c1a-9a5d-39ccba4db862
- Zhihu topic ID19584775
