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noun
A large tornado outbreak involving more than fifty tornadoes within a 24-hour period.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
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History
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.
