Definition of Tornado cellar

1. Noun. An underground shelter where you can go until a storm passes.

Exact synonyms: Cyclone Cellar, Storm Cellar
Generic synonyms: Shelter

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tornado Cellar

tormentresses
tormentries
tormentrix
tormentry
torments
tormentum
tormina
torminal
torminous
torn
torn away
tornade
tornades
tornadic
tornado
tornado cellar (current term)
tornado epilepsy
tornado lantern
tornadocane
tornadocanes
tornadoes
tornadolike
tornados
tornaria
tornillo
tornillos
toro
torob
toroid
toroidal

Literary usage of Tornado cellar

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Air World: The Science of Meteorology Simplified by Willis Luther Moore (1922)
"Except a tornado cellar, the cellar of a frame house is the safest place. The writer has examined either the wrecks or the records. ..."

2. Hollywood & the Best of Los Angeles Alive! by Robert White, Phyllis White (2002)
"That from someone who has to dive into the tornado cellar every year. When the first European explorers arrived with Portola, they got as far as the Santa ..."

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