violent tornado

collocation in English

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violent
adjective
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/ˈvaɪə.lənt/us
/ˈvaɪə.lənt/
using force to hurt ...
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tornado
noun[C]
uk
/tɔːˈneɪ.dəʊ/us
/tɔːrˈneɪ.doʊ/
a strong, dangerous wind that forms itself into an upside-down spinning cone and is able to destroy buildings as it moves across ...
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(Definition ofviolentandtornadofrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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During the outbreak, aviolenttornadodirectly struck three highway overpasses, and at each one there was a fatality.
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The probability of a high intensity orviolenttornadodiffers by location across the country.
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The resulting vortex should resemble a large, slow dust-devil of water-mist more than aviolenttornado.
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Aviolenttornadocan destroy a house whether its windows are open or closed.
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Though master of calm breezes and gentle sounds, she can rage like a harsh wind or even aviolenttornadowhen she must.
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Individual supercells spawned as many as 5 violent tornadoes as they tracked west to east.
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It also concerned itself with why some supercells form violent tornadoes versus weak tornadoes.
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The new scale accounts for homes that use cut nails instead of anchor bolts, which do not effectively provide resistance against violent tornadoes.
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The source of this myth is from the appearance of some destroyed structures after violent tornadoes.
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In the case of violent tornadoes, only a small portion of the path is of violent intensity, most of the higher intensity from subvortices.
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The outbreak sequence also produced seven violent tornadoes, nearly half the documented total of tornadoes for the sequence.
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Large portions of this area were damaged by violent tornadoes in 1956, 1998, and 2011.
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Very large hail and tornadoes were expected with the supercells, with the possibility of a few strong to violent tornadoes.
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These are sometimes tornadic but rarely produce violent tornadoes.
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There were several violent tornadoes in this outbreak.
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In even the most violent tornadoes, there is only a pressure drop of about 10%, which is about 1.4 psi.
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Occasionally with violent tornadoes, a smaller subvortex within a tornado will completely destroy a structure next to another building which appears almost unscathed and thus apparently skipped.
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An interior room inside a well-built frame house (especially one with a basement) provides a reasonable degree of protection from all but the most violent tornadoes.
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Florida's most violent tornadoes generally occur during the winter months, when the state is most vulnerable to invasions of cold air that help generate such storms.
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