Rainstorm vs Tornado - What's the difference?
rainstorm | tornado |
A storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall.
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As nouns the difference between rainstorm and tornado
is that rainstorm is a storm characterized by substantial, heavy rainfall while tornado is tornado.rainstorm
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See also
* thunderstorm * deluge * snowstorm * hailstormtornado
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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.