IN NATURE (vol. xl. p. 174) you kindly allowed me to describe a. dust-whirl seen to originate on a heated dust-covered highway. The phenomenon has just been repeated under much similar ...

Investigators are searching for clues about the Aug. 13 stage collapse ... motion in the dust and that "it's hard to say for sure," whether a gustnado formed. If a tornado had struck, storm ...

Tuesday's storms in Iowa came as the line of storms brought 47 inches of snow to parts of Montana, and 23 people were injured in a tornado in ... mile away as a dust whirl crossing a road ...

(KTXL) — In 2022, the Sacramento region had occurrences of a tornado, funnel cloud ... cumulus clouds — often as no more than a dust whirl, NOAA said. Recently, the NWS issued a special ...

A condensation funnel is a tornado, not a funnel cloud, if either a) it is in contact with the ground or b) a debris cloud or dust whirl is visible beneath it.” They define a tornado as ...

Here's a list of tornado-related words, for everyone who has ever wondered what a gustnado or dust devil is. Derecho: Not a tornado but a type of severe weather, a derecho is a widespread ...

Compared to a tornado, a funnel cloud — condensed water droplets shaped into a cone — does not touch the ground nor does it create a visible dust whirl beneath it. Forrest said a funnel cloud ...

“The first landspout tornado was rated an EF-U for no evidence ... or towering cumulus clouds (often as no more than a dust whirl), and essentially are the land-based equivalents of waterspouts.” ...

Fire whirls are related to other extreme weather events, such as dust devils ... larger version of a fire whirl, and they are really the size and scale of a regular tornado," Jason Forthofer ...