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A tornado on a body of water is called a waterspout.

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What are tornadoes that occur in the sea?

Waterspouts


What else are tornadoes called?

Tornadoes are sometimes called twisters.


What are American tornadoes called?

Tornadoes in the United States are simply called tornadoes. In informal contexts they are sometimes called twisters.


What do they call tornadoes in US?

Tornadoes in the U.S. are called tornadoes.


Are tornadoes called anything or are thay just called tornadoes?

Tornadoes are sometimes called twisters, but tornado is the preferred scientific term.


Can tornadoes occur in the water?

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.


What is another word for twister?

Tornadoes are formally called tornadoes.


What are Small tornadoes around the main tornado?

Smaller tornadoes near a larger tornadoes are often called satellite tornadoes. Smaller vortices within a tornado are called subvorticies or suction vorticies.


Do tornadoes happen more on water or land?

Wind. A tornado is a type of violent windstorm. However tornadoes can form over bodies of water. When that happens they are called waterspouts.


Another name you call tornadoes?

Tornadoes are often called twisters.


Does Sun have tornadoes?

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.


Is a tornado some times called a cyclone?

Sometimes tornadoes are called tornadoes, though it is technically incorrect to do so.