Tornadoes have been in the news lately with the series of large and destructive storms that have visited the Mid-West and South. We were under a tornado watch last Wednesday when the big cold front came across a huge chunk of the country.
A primer on the different kinds of twisters:
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| Rope tornado | |
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| Cone tornado |
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| Wedge tornado |
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| Multi-vortex tornado |
The tornadoes above are all associated with supercell thunderstorms. Other whirlwind events are not and often are short-lived and much less destructive.
Waterspouts 
Landspout 
Dust devil
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