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TORNADO (Span., tornada, a turning about, cf. " turn ")

This article appears in Volume V27, Page 52 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: TOO-TUM
TORNADO (Span., tornada, a turning about, cf. " turn ") , a local whirlwind of extreme violence, usually formed within a thunderstorm. In
appearance
  it consists of a funnel-shaped
cloud
 , depending from the
mass
  of
storm
 -
cloud
  above, and when fully
developed
  tapering downwards to the earth. Besides its whirling motion, a tornado has an advancing
movement
  of from 20 to 40 M. an hourand along its own narrow path it carries destruction. Its duration is usually from half an hour to an hour. Tornadoes are most common in America, especially in the
Mississippi
  Valley and the Southern states; in Europe and elsewhere they are comparatively rare. Owing to their association with thunderstorms they generally occur in warm weather. A tornado is the result of a
condition
  of local in-stability in the atmosphere, originating high above the earth. A current of air is induced to ascend with a rapid spiral motion
round
  a central core of low pressure. The moisture in the ascending air is condensed by cooling both as it ascends and as it expands into the low-pressure core. The cloud-funnel appears to grow downwards because the moisture in the air is condensed more rapidly than the air itself, following a spiral course, ascends.


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