Duststorm vs Tornado - What's the difference?
duststorm | tornado |
phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere.
(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
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As nouns the difference between duststorm and tornado
is that duststorm is phenomenon in which gale- to hurricane-force winds blow particles up in a planet's atmosphere while tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.duststorm
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(wikipedia duststorm)Alternative forms
* dust stormNoun
(en noun)- In the early part of the 20th century, "dust bowl" storms in the central U.S. were responsible for crippling damage to the agricultural infrastructure.
tornado
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(wikipedia tornado)Noun
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- A tornado is a rotating column of air, pendant from a cumulonimbus cloud, and nearly always observable as a funnel cloud or tuba. Its vortex, meters in diameter, rotates counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere, with wind speeds of 160 to more than 480 kilometres per hour.