Waterspout vs Tornado - What's the difference?
waterspout | tornado |
a tornado that occurs over a body of water
a channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof
(meteorology) A violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.
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As nouns the difference between waterspout and tornado
is that waterspout is a tornado that occurs over a body of water while tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a twisting, funnel-shaped cloud.waterspout
English
(wikipedia waterspout)Noun
(en noun)Quotations
; water tornado * 1922 , , At The Bay [http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/mansfield/garden/bay.html] *: Stanley turned over on his back and kicked with his legs till he was a living waterspout .See also
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(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.