Squall vs Tornado - What's the difference?
squall | tornado |
A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
A sudden storm, as found in a squall line. Often a nautical usage.
To cry or wail loudly.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) :
* 1916 , (Jack London), The Red One :
* 1998 , (Anne McCafferey), Masterharper of Pern :
(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
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As nouns the difference between squall and tornado
is that squall is a squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line while tornado is tornado.As a verb squall
is to cry or wail loudly.squall
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- Squalling was the word for it, Pew's anger rose so high at these objections; till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness, and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.
- Squalling like an infuriated cat, the shadow crashed down
- she wrapped the squalling , wriggling baby tightly into the fine cotton sheet
Derived terms
* squaller * squallytornado
English
(wikipedia tornado)Noun
(en-noun)citation, passage=An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex . The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.}}
- 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.