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PARA-602-Tornado

Caretaker Status: Bonded to CARE-22

Affiliated companion(s): none

Level 5 - abstract
Word: Tornado

Origin:
1550s, ternado, navigator's word for violent windy thunderstorm in the tropical Atlantic, probably a mangled borrowing from Spanish tronada "thunderstorm," from tronar "to thunder," from Latin tonare "to thunder" (see thunder (n.)). Also in 17c. spelled tornatho, tornathe, turnado; modern spelling by 1620s. Metathesis of -o- and -r- in modern spelling influenced by Spanish tornar "to twist, turn," from Latin tornare "to turn." Meaning "extremely violent whirlwind" is first found 1620s; specifically "destructive rotary funnel cloud" (especially in the U.S. Midwest) from 1849. Related: Tornadic.

Definition:
a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.

Magic Status: 2 - Novice
Tier 1 - Markings on tail move in a swirling motion.
Tier 2 - Can sense when a tornado is starting to form.

Wisdom Status: 0 - Unaware