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If a tornado is identified as a violent column of air, then what is the difference between a tornado and a dust storm (or I should be saying a dust twister)?
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A (dust twister)? is really a whirlwind or here in the Southwest a dust devil.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_devil
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