super outbreak

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A large tornado outbreak involving more than fifty tornadoes within a 24-hour period.
    — Cycloidal ground marks were replete in the super-outbreak. Figure 3.35 illustrates the small cycloidal swaths of the Anchor, Illinois, tornado and the giant cycloidal swaths of the Homer Lake, Indiana, tornado.

词形变化

super outbreaks plural

词源

From super + outbreak (“tornado outbreak”). Coined by Dr. Tetsuya Theordore "Ted" Fujita in 1974, after a then-recent outbreak of tornadoes that was the largest known to have occurred.
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