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Tornado

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Tornado is synonymous with "hurricane" and means a violent storm. A violent gust of wind or a tempest distinguished by the vehemence of the wind and by a whirling, progressive _ motion, usually accompanied by thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth.

151 la. 73, 77, Ann. Cas. 1913A, 266n.