The word 'tornadoes' is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use the word 'tornadoes' to refer to a violent and destructive rotating column of air that forms in thunderstorms and can cause severe damage to buildings and the surrounding area. This word is often used in weather reports, news articles, and scientific discussions about severe weather. Example: "The town was devastated by a series of tornadoes, with entire buildings being lifted and destroyed by the powerful winds."
The tornadoes flipped cars, downed power lines and snapped trees.
The highest chance of tornadoes Wednesday extended from the Kansas-Oklahoma border south of Wichita, Kansas, to the St Louis area – with storms forming in the afternoon and early evening.
The Storm Prediction Center said Wednesday's storms in an area from northern Oklahoma to western Illinois could be significant – defined as having 2-inch hail, 75mph winds and tornadoes rated at EF2 or higher.
There had been about two dozen tornadoes reported in the area, it said.
The conditions are ripe for a series of storms to gain strength and buffet middle America over the next two days, with hail and tornadoes possible in parts of the nation's geographic heartland, forecasters warned on Wednesday.
Earlier in the day the National Weather Service forecast the chance of tornadoes in parts of the great plains.
Related: Tornadoes rip through several central US states – in pictures There were no immediate reports of injuries but some structures were damaged as a storm system brought severe weather to several Great Plains states, officials said.
A series of tornadoes, including a major twister, touched down southwest of Oklahoma City on Wednesday, flipping cars and causing the escape of tigers and other animals from an exotic wildlife park, officials said.
After renewing expressions of condolences for the lives lost due to tornadoes and flooding in Texas and Oklahoma this month, the president mentioned climate change as a factor in intensifying severe weather.
Large hail, damaging winds and a number of tornadoes were possible Wednesday from the southern plains westward to Illinois.
Besides the Japanese and Thai calamities, New Zealand suffered an earthquake, Australia and China floods, and America a cocktail of hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires and floods.
