Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tornado, typically weak and short-lived, that forms along a horizontal wind shear, especially along the leading edge of a storm.
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- noun a specific type of short-lived, low-level rotating
cloud that can form in a severethunderstorm .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A gustnado is a shorter name for a gust front tornado and it is commonly mistaken for a tornado.
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Another time, I was in a brick apartment when a "gustnado" swept through Tallahassee.
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Here it is believed to have been a "gustnado" instead of a tornado.
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there is some debate whether this footage shows true evidence of a tornado, or possibly an intense gust-front or "gustnado", a swirling vortex on the leading edge of damaging, straight-line winds.
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Scott Culpice, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said today the Winchester-Larsen damage was likely the result of "some sort of a low end tornado, maybe a gustnado."
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The gustnado in Addyston was ranked as a F-1 and destroyed one house and blew a roof off a garage.
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It likely formed just west of the Harbor Tunnel area along the strong gust front as a gustnado.
Blog updates 2009
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"It lasted much longer than a gustnado, and was probably in existence, based on radar data, for over 5 minutes.
Blog updates 2009
actung commented on the word gustnado
A gust front tornado.
March 28, 2012