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Noun Concept
Categories: Weather hazards, Global warming and hurricanes, Vortices, Meteorological phenomena, Meteorological quantities
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hurricane  tropical cyclone  Tropical cyclone Windspeed climatology  List of tropical depressions  Tropical cyclone wind speed climatology
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A severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving at 63-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale) Open English WordNet
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls. Wikipedia
Rapidly rotating storm system Wikidata
A tropical cyclone of great intensity; any wind reaching a speed of more than 73 miles per hour (117 kilometers per hour) is said to have hurricane force. OmegaWiki
A rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, strong winds, and a circular/spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain, ranging in increasing strength from tropical depressions and tropical storm to hurricanes. Wiktionary
(broad sense). Wiktionary (translation)