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  • These streaks and eyewitness accounts lead us to believe that this was a multi-vortex tornado (more than one funnel circulating around the parent tornado circulation).

    Eight years ago: Tornado devastates La Plata, Md. 2010

  • These streaks and eyewitness accounts lead us to believe that this was a multi-vortex tornado (more than one funnel circulating around the parent tornado circulation).

    Eight years ago: Tornado devastates La Plata, Md. 2010

  • And some of the reports said major multi-vortex, which means different suction spots moving around each other in a very large tornado.

    CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2007 2007

  • And there is a-- there's a big-time science to this, figuring out whether it was just one arm of a, what we call, multi-vortex tornado with little suction spots spinning around and around and around.

    CNN Transcript Oct 19, 2007 2007

  • Almost two cones, but what I'm assuming is this is a multi-vortex text tornado; probably two little storms rotating around each other.

    CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2007 2007

  • Scientists said it appeared to be a rare "multi-vortex" tornado, with two or more small and intense centres of rotation orbiting the larger funnel.

    WalesOnline - Home 2011

  • "It was only moments later that a multi-vortex tornado formed, literally, right over our caravan," Skilling said in a phone interview from the road.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • multi-vortex , hiding two or more cyclones within the wider wind funnel.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Brian Vastagand Ed O’Keefe 2011

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