Tornado (disambiguation)
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A tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud. They can mainly come from cumulonimbus clouds. Tornadoes usually come in thunderstorms. Tornado may also refer to:
Vehicles
- Tornado (sailboat), an Olympic class sailing catamaran
- Tornado (car company), a British automobile manufacturer active in the late 1950s and early 1960s
- Hawker Tornado, a single-seat British fighter aircraft planned to be used during World War II
- B-45 Tornado, an American bomber aircraft
- Panavia Tornado, a family of twin-engine military aircraft
- XP-68 Tornado, a proposed version of the XP-54 Swoose Goose
- Jeep Tornado engine, the first mass-produced overhead cam (OHC) engine
- Chevrolet Tornado, the name given to the light pickup Chevrolet Montana in countries such as Mexico
- LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado, a new-build steam locomotive being built in the UK
- Tornado (1849-1881, 1888-1892), a GWR Iron Duke Class and later Rover class steam locomotive
- Tornado (1854-1884), a South Devon Railway Tornado class steam locomotive
- Tornado, the name of several models of Benelli motorcycles (see List of Benelli motorcycles)
Entertainment
- Tornado! (1996), a television movie starring Bruce Campbell and Shannon Sturges
- Tornado (band), a Serbian metal band
- Tornado (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa
- Tornado (Särkänniemi roller coaster), an inverted steel roller coaster at Särkänniemi in Tampere, Finland
- Tornado (comic), a short-lived weekly British comic
- Tornado (robot), a competitor on the UK television series Robot Wars
- Tornado (Sonic the Hedgehog), a plane in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games
- Tornado (video game), a 1993 flight simulator game
- The Tornadoes, an American surf band
- The Tornados or The Tornadoes, an English instrumental band
- Tornado, Zorro's horse
- Tornado, a 1920s Coney Island rollercoaster
- A type of water slide, manufactured by product of Proslide, which ends in a large funnel. Arma es Gay.
- The Tornado, a 1917 film directed by John Ford
- Tornado (ride) a traveling midway ride
Places
- Tornado, West Virginia, United States
People
- Steve Debbes, a South African professional wrestler who goes by the ring name Tornado.
- Danie Brits, a South African professional wrestler who used to go by the ring name Tornado.
Sport teams
- Chicago Tornadoes, a professional cricket franchise
- Racine Legion/Tornadoes or Orange/Newark Tornadoes, now-defunct National Football League teams
- Texas Tornado, a Junior-A hockey team in Frisco, Texas, United States
- Wichita Tornado, a soccer club in Wichita, Kansas, United States
- Worcester Tornadoes, a minor-league baseball club in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Computing
- Tornado codes, a class of fast erasure codes
- Tornado card, a network card manufactured by 3Com
- Tornado, a proprietary DOS-based PIM software application, which later became InfoSelect (link-out)
- Tornado (program), an application to help manage Tor (anonymity network)
- Tornado (OS), a multiprocessor Operating System