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A dust devil (also known regionally as a dirt devil) is a strong, well-formed, and relatively short-lived whirlwind. Its size ranges from small (18 in/half a metre wide and a few yards/metres tall) to large (more than 30 ft/10 m wide and more than half a mile/1 km tall).
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and ... which ingest a considerable amount of debris and dirt ...
The Xenia, Ohio, F5 tornado of April 3, 1974.This was one of two tornadoes to receive a preliminary rating of F6, which was downgraded later to a rating of F5. [1]This is a list of tornadoes which have been officially or unofficially labeled as F5, EF5, IF5, T10-T11, the highest possible ratings on the various tornado intensity scales.
In the movie's grand finale, Tornado 6 destroys a factory, catches fire and tears up a movie theater. ... there's this very distinctive red dirt look that we integrated into the debris field at ...
Outbreak produced the Candlestick Park tornado, which was an extremely violent F5 tornado or tornado family that killed 58 people and traveled 202.5 mi (325.9 km) across Mississippi and Alabama. It is one of the longest such paths on record and one of only four official F5 tornadoes to hit Mississippi.
A comparison of the widths of various tornadoes exceeding 1 mile (2.2 km), superimposed over a map of El Reno, Oklahoma. This is a list of tornadoes by their official and unofficial width. The average width of a tornado according to the National Weather Service is 50 yards (46 m). [1]
The southern U.S. has been bombarded with round after round of severe thunderstorms since mid-March, and on Wednesday, one tornado spun up that was so photogenic that even veteran storm chasers ...
A tornado touched down in an open dirt field for less than a minute. [72] EF0 SW of Aberdeen: Brown: SD: 01:15 0.01 mi (0.016 km) 10 yd (9.1 m) A security camera captured a brief tornado touch down in an open field. [73] EF0 S of Columbia: Brown: SD