Sizes and shapes of tornadoes

Answer 1

Common terms used to describe a tornado's shape are rope (a very skinny tornado, usually dissipating), elephant trunk, stovepipe (a vertical column), cone, and wedge (a tornado that appears wider than it is tall).

Answer 2

Tornadoes can be any size. Common terms for tornado shapes are:

rope tornado (Skinny little tornado, often used to describe a tornado that is dissipating), elephant trunk (classic tornado shape), cone (just what it sounds like), stovepipe (a vertical column), and wedge tornado (a tornado which appears wider than the distance from cloud base to the ground).

Note that the shape of a tornado does not necessarily indicate its intensity.

Answer 3

Tornadoes come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. At one extreme, rope tornadoes are narrow and threadlike in appearance. They can sometimes be less than 10 yards wide. At the other extreme are wedge tornadoes, which appear wider than they are tall and can exceed a mile in diameter. In between tornadoes may appear as cones, columns, corkscrews, tubes of dust, or they may resemble elephant trunks. Some tornadoes have multiple funnels that whirl about a common center, quickly forming and dissipating in succession.

Answer 4

The tornado is often referred to as a "funnel cloud" because of that being its shape.

Answer 5

The typical tornado cloud is shaped like a narrow funnel.

Answer 6

The cloud that develops within in the vortex of a tornado is the funnel cloud.

Answer 7

It is like a usually 3D cone shape.

Other tornadoes are described as resembling an elephant trunk, or in some cases a needle while still others look like an enormous vertical column.

Answer 8

The cloud that forms in the tornado itself is a funnel cloud. The funnel cloud often descends from a wall cloud, which in turn is connected to the base of a cumulonimbus clouds.

Answer 9

Funnel cloud