We had some bad weather around Chicago recently, which included a very localized high wind cell. It was not a tornado, but there were tornado watches in effect. There was minimal damage to houses, but a lot of trees lost all or most of their leaves. I have heard a term for something like this but after much searching I can’t find the word I am looking for. The closest term I have found is something the NOAA calls a gustnado. This might well be what went through, but it is not the term I remember.
Anyone know of a term for something that is almost, but not quite, a tornado?
I saw that and it does sound like what I am thinking of, but again, the word does not sound familiar to me (in this context).
This is getting frustrating. You’d think that with all the weather-related sites I’ve been to in the last few days one of them would have the word I am looking for somewhere.
This is opening the possibility that I have either completely forgetten the original word and have regected the correct answer, or that I have made up the forgoten word and it doesn’t exist. I expect that even if it were a disused word, someone would still be using it somewhere.