BIOLOGY IN HUMAN WELFARE
HUMAN HEALTH AND DISEASE
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storm surge
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funnel of rotating air
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lightning and thunder
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landslides and mudslides
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Detailed explanation-1: -A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
Detailed explanation-2: -A tornado is often made visible by a distinctive funnel-shaped cloud. Commonly called the condensation funnel, the funnel cloud is a tapered column of water droplets that extends downward from the base of the parent cloud.
Detailed explanation-3: -A funnel cloud is a tight rotating column of air (that is often the start of a tornado) that never reaches the ground. Storms can produce funnel clouds, but never produce a tornado.
Detailed explanation-4: -Cumulonimbus clouds are associated with extreme weather such as heavy torrential downpours, hail storms, lightning and even tornadoes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Funnel clouds or ‘tuba’ are extending, spinning fingers of cloud that reach towards the ground, but never touch it. When they do reach the ground they become a tornado.