(1) She's a back-stabbing, double-dealing twister

(2) Both yelled as they fought harder and the twister was gone like a breeze.

(3) Unlike a hurricane - a tornado's big, long-lived and usually slow-moving meteorological cousin - a twister is small, brief, and fast moving.

(4) Know that a tornado watch means a twister is possible in your area and that a tornado warning means it has already been sighted and may be headed your way.

(5) This tornado comes on the wake of a massive twister which struck the town of Jonesboro just a few hours ago.

(6) Situated past East Arm in the southern part of the harbour, it was considered well protected from storm surges and the strong winds expected with the twister .

(7) With an average of one tornado every three years, it's the twister capital of the world.

(8) Conditions were ripe for twisters , and there were tornado warnings in counties all along the coast, with several reported touchdowns.

(9) And we have late word that twisters are being spotted.

(10) A tornado struck homes early yesterday in northern Louisiana and possible twisters were reported in Arkansas and Mississippi.

(11) This tornado hit Furnace county, Nebraska, and it is one of 100 twisters that ravaged must of the Midwest over the weekend.

(12) The black shadows darting around everywhere, the rain of fire, the lightning, the enormous twisters … but she did not halt, and only pushed more determinedly on.

(13) Most other nations haven't been tracking twisters as long as the United States has, and their records are much less thorough, he notes.

(14) Watching silent twisters at a distance was far different from watching a giant roaring twister stalk them from less than three miles away.

(15) Likewise, it's only a myth that twisters avoid large cities.

(16) Then, by reference to data from the original group of twisters , each tornado was assigned a Fujita scale rating, a path length over which damage would occur, and a path width.

(17) The wind and rain intensified as they watched the deadly twisters move towards them.

(18) This year, the country has been lucky: As of Aug. 1, only 473 twisters had struck the lower 48 states.

(19) Suddenly, out of the ocean, four huge twisters appeared; they swirled around, creating a huge wind for the boat.

(20) For pictures and more on deadly twisters and the researchers who study them, read ‘Chasing Tornadoes’ in the April issue of National Geographic.

(21) Scientists who chase dust devils report that the tiny twisters can produce a small magnetic field that changes magnitude between 3 and 30 times per second.