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Can a monsoon and tornado collide?

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11y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

No. they opperate on completely different scales of time and space. They cannot collide. A tornado is a small-scale, violent vortex that usually lasts for a matter of minutes. A monsoon is a large-scale, seasonal weather pattern that alternates between periods of drought and heavy rainfall.

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