supertornado
English
Alternative forms
- super tornado
- super-tornado
Etymology
super- + tornado
Noun
supertornado (plural supertornadoes or supertornados)
- (rare) A giant, very severe tornado.
- 2004, Research Fellow International Food Policy Research Institute and Associate Professor Department of Applied Economics Philip G Pardey, What's Economics Worth?: Valuing Policy Research, International Food Policy Research Institute, →ISBN, page 78, 79:
- Suppose that there were nothing we could do about that prospect. The prediction would still have some economic value. People making long-term investments would be aware that some land would become unsuitable for cultivation while other land would become usable; there would be an obvious incentive to reduce long-term development on coastal plains and in areas likely to be subject to superhurricanes, supertornadoes, and other severe weather events.
- 2009, John Brockman, What Have You Changed Your Mind About?: Today's Leading Minds Rethink Everything, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 173:
- These catastrophic events include megastorms, supertornados, torrential rains and floods, extended droughts, and ecosystem disruptions, all added to steadily rising sea levels.
- 2015, Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife, James Clarke & Company Health, →ISBN, page 56:
- By tomorrow they'll be chasing a supertornado in Chicago, or some Miami seawall break.