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Every Type of Tornado Explained — From Wedges to Bird Farts
How many different types of tornadoes are there? Over the years, I've managed to document every type of tornado—from massive wedges and landspouts to satellite tornadoes, anticyclonic tornadoes, QLCS tornadoes, and multiple-vortex tornadoes.
In this video, we'll explore how tornadoes are classified, including the two broad categories of mesocyclonic and non-mesocyclonic tornadoes, and how their behavior, location within a storm, and appearance can vary dramatically.
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We'll look at:
🌪️ Mesocyclonic tornadoes
🌪️ Non-mesocyclonic tornadoes & landspouts
🌊 Waterspouts
🌀 Multiple-vortex tornadoes & suction vortices
🛰️ Satellite tornadoes
↩️ Anticyclonic tornadoes
⛈️ QLCS tornadoes & mesovortices
☁️ Funnel clouds & horizontal vortices (“noodles”)
🌪️ Wedges, stovepipes, cones, ropes & elephant trunks
💨 Gustnadoes
🌵 Dust devils
🔥 Fire whirls / “firenadoes”
✨ Sparklenadoes
I'll also show some of the strangest examples I've encountered while storm chasing, including a bizarre multiple-vortex tornado where giant suction vortices appeared to contain suction vortices of their own.
And there's one type of tornado I still haven't managed to capture myself. So I had to license that footage from Daniel.
Happy Trails!
CHAPTERS
0:00 - 0:45 Intro
0:46 - 1:37 Mesocyclones tornado
1:38 - 2:27 Landspout tornado
2:28 - 3:08 Waterspout
3:09 - 3:59 Multiple vortex tornado
4:00 - 5:23 Suction vortices
5:24 - 6:28 Satellite tornado
6:29 - 7:56 Anticyclonic tornado
7:57 - 10:07 QLCS tornado
10:08 - 10:58 Funnel clouds
10:59 - 11:26 Wedge tornado
11:27 - 11:58 Tornado shapes
11:59 - 12:15 Bird fart tornado
12:16 - 12:53 Gustnado
12:54 - 13:51 Dust devil
13:52 - 14:17 Firenado
14:18 - 14:49 Glitter tornado