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Tornado Alley

Proper noun

Meaning

Tornado Alley

(US, geography, meteorology) A region of the United States. Area located in the middle of the USA, where tornadoes are particularly frequent and intense.

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Examples

As an adolescent, Wallace was a regionally ranked junior tennis player, an experience he reflected upon in the essay "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley" (first published in Harper's Magazine under the title "Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes"). Source: Internet

Kansas City is situated on the edge of the " Tornado Alley ", a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains in Canada collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms, especially during the spring. Source: Internet

Most of the state lies in an area known as Tornado Alley characterized by frequent interaction between cold, dry air from Canada, warm to hot, dry air from Mexico and the Southwestern U.S., and warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico. Source: Internet

Tornado Alley has all of the weather conditions needed for a tornado to take shape. Source: Internet

Where and What is Tornado Alley? Source: Internet

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