A tornado on a body of water is called a waterspout.
Tornadoes generally do not form over large bodies water and usually only cross lakes, ponds and rivers. Their brute strength is equally powerful over land and these small bodies of water. Tornadoes have been known to dry lakes on occasion and cause fish to rain on people's houses in rare instances.
People who study tornadoes are a type of meteorologist.
They are called tornadoes. Tornadoes are violent rotating columns of air that extend from a thunderstorm to the ground.
A group of tornadoes produced by the same storm system withing a day or so is called a tornado outbreak. A series of tornadoes produced in succession by the same supercell is called a tornado family.
No, the sun does not have tornadoes. Tornadoes require an atmosphere to form, which the sun does not have. However, the sun does have solar storms, which are different phenomena involving eruptions of hot gas and energy from its surface.
Waterspouts
Tornadoes are sometimes called twisters.
Tornadoes in the United States are simply called tornadoes. In informal contexts they are sometimes called twisters.
Tornadoes in the U.S. are called tornadoes.
Tornadoes are sometimes called twisters, but tornado is the preferred scientific term.
No. A tornado that moves onto water will keep going without being significantly affected. In such a case it is called a waterspout. Waterspouts can also develop on water and then move onto land as tornadoes. There are numerous examples of tornadoes crossing water. Most notably, the three deadliest tornadoes in U.S. history all crossed the Mississippi River. See the links below for tornadoes moving across water.
Tornadoes are formally called tornadoes.
Smaller tornadoes near a larger tornadoes are often called satellite tornadoes. Smaller vortices within a tornado are called subvorticies or suction vorticies.
Wind. A tornado is a type of violent windstorm. However tornadoes can form over bodies of water. When that happens they are called waterspouts.
Tornadoes are often called twisters.
Enormous vortices have been observed on the sun that resemble tornadoes. They have been called "solar tornadoes" but they are not tornadoes by the meteorological definition.
Sometimes tornadoes are called tornadoes, though it is technically incorrect to do so.