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super outbreak

noun

Etymology

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.

  1. inherited from ūtābrecan
  2. inherited from outbreken
  3. compounded as super outbreak — “super + outbreak”

Definitions

  1. A large tornado outbreak involving more than fifty tornadoes within a 24-hour period.

    • Cycloidal ground marks were replete in the super-outbreak. Figure 3.35 illustrates the small cycloidal swaths of the Anchor, Illinois, tornado and the giant cycloidal swaths of the Homer Lake, Indiana, tornado.
    • The tornado Super Outbreak of 2011 was the largest in US history. From April 26 to April 28, more than 300 tornadoes spun across the eastern United States.
    • In the following months, careful analysis of all the damage led Dr. Fujita and other experts to determine that the Xenia tornado was in fact the worst of all the 148 Super Outbreak tornadoes.

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