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| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
| whirlwind |
| revolving mass of air resulting from local atmospheric instability, such as that caused by intense heating of the ground by the sun on a hot summer day. Examples of whirlwinds are waterspouts, tornadoes, small whirls of dust or leaves, and the sand whirls of the desert, called dust devils or dust whirls. |
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