Chill pill, af. We’re all stressed today, no need to parse words.
I’m an old Texas gal, quite well acquainted with weather terminology, both proper and colloquial. So a funnel on the ground is a tornado. Maybe you can lecture me on whether “twister” is a proper term??
They’re now saying there were no kids in the school. Since Forney is east of Dallas, they may well have had time to dismiss and get them all home before the storms rolled in there. I don’t know. Arlington and Dallas schools did indeed shelter in place, in lockdown.
Circular storms have a number of colloquial names. In some parts of the US Tornado Alley, tornadoes or twisters are called cyclones. In the Indian Ocean, hurricanes are called cyclones and in the Bay of Bengal, they are also called tornadoes. To a meteorologist, cyclones are areas of low atmospheric pressure.