Join LinkedIn and access Saraâs full profile. Itâs free! As a LinkedIn member, youâll join 300 million other professionals who are sharing connections, ideas, and opportunities.
Confidence votes 95.7K. A sand tornado is not truly a tornado. It is a phenomenon called a dust devil. Dust devils are whirlwinds that form when a layer of hot air forms just above the ground and rises in a relatively small, rotating column, picking up up dust or sand as it does so. Dust devils are rarely strong enough to cause damage, and are much weaker than tornadoes.
sand. 1. Small, often rounded grains or particles of disintegrated rock, larger than particles of silt. Although sand often consists of quartz, it can consist of any other mineral or rock fragment as well.Coral sand, for example, consists of limestone fragments. 2.. sand-a loose material consisting of grains of rock or coral. beach-an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake. quicksand-a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down.