Tornado (disambiguation)

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A tornado is a violent rotating column of air that touches the surface of the earth.

Tornado may also refer to:

Transport

Aviation

• Airfer Tornado, a Spanish paramotor design
• Beardmore Tornado, a diesel airship engine fitted to the R101
• Hawker Tornado, a World War II single–seat British fighter aircraft
• North American B-45 Tornado, an American bomber aircraft
• Panavia Tornado, a family of modern, twin–engine military aircraft
  • Panavia Tornado ADV or Panavia Tornado Air Defence Variant, an interceptor aircraft
• Partenavia Tornado, Italian, racing aircraft; only one built
• Titan Tornado, ultralight aircraft
• Vultee XP-68 Tornado, a proposed version of the XP-54 Swoose Goose
• Wright R-2160 Tornado, aircraft engine

Maritime

• Tornado (sailboat), a high performance catamaran, formerly an Olympic sailing class
• HMS Tornado, World War I, Royal Navy R-class destroyer (1916)
• USCGC Tornado, United States Coast Guard, Cyclone-class patrol ship. Formerly the US Navy, USS Tornado (PC-14)
• Spanish corvette Tornado

Rail

• BR Standard Class 7 70022 Tornado, built at Crewe 1951, withdrawn 1967
• LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado, a new–build main line steam locomotive, built in the UK, that entered service in 2008
• Tornado, one of the GWR Iron Duke Class, later Rover Class, steam locomotives
• South Devon Railway Tornado class a class of broad-gauge, tank locomotive. In service 1854-1885
• Tornado, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive built for the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915

Road

• Chevrolet Tornado, the name given to the light pickup Chevrolet Montana in countries such as Mexico
• Tornado (car company), a British automobile manufacturer active in the late 1950s and early 1960s
• Tornado Fuel Saver, an after-market device that is claimed to improve fuel economy
• Tornado, one of several models of Benelli motorcycles (see List of Benelli motorcycles)
• FPV F6 Tornado, an automobile built in Australia by Ford Performance Vehicles from 2005 to 2008

Locations

• Tornado, West Virginia

Entertainment

Amusement rides

• Tornado (Adventureland), a wooden roller coaster in Altoona, Iowa, US
• Tornado (Coney Island), a 1920s hybrid rollercoaster in New York, US
• Tornado (Parque de Atracciones de Madrid), a steel coaster in Madrid, Spain
• Tornado (ProSlide ride), a type of water slide
• Tornado (Särkänniemi), an inverted steel roller coaster in Tampere, Finland
• Tornado (Wisdom ride), an amusement ride manufactured by Wisdom Industries Ltd.

Film

• Tornado! (1996), a television movie starring Bruce Campbell and Shannon Sturges
• Tornado (film), 1943
• Tornado (1983 film) or Last Blood, an Italian war film
• The Tornado, a 1917 film directed by John Ford

Music

• The Tornados or The Tornadoes, an English instrumental band
• The Tornadoes, an American surf band
• "T.O.R.N.A.D.O.", a 2010 song by The Go! Team
• Tornado (album), a 2012 album by American country music group Little Big Town
  • "Tornado" (song), the title track
• "Tornado" (Anttix song), 2013 single by British singer Anttix
• "Tornado", a song by Adema on the album Planets

Fictional characters

• Tornado, a character from NX Files
• Tornado (horse), sometimes spelled Toronado, the horse of Zorro

Other

• Tornado, a season 3 Beavis and Butt-head episode
• Tornado (novel), 1996 children's book by Betsy Byars
• Tornado, a commercial for the Buick Rendezvous
• Tornado (comics), a short-lived weekly British comic
• Tornado (table football), a table football table
• Tornado (robot), a competitor on the UK television series Robot Wars

Computing and technology

• HTC Tornado, smartphone
• Tornado (web server), software written in Python

Computer games

• Tornado (1993 video game), flight simulator game
• Tornado (2008 video game), Nintendo DS game
• The Tornado, a biplane from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series

People

• Danie Brits, a South African professional wrestler who used to go by the ring name Tornado
• Steve Debbes, a South African professional wrestler who goes by the ring name Tornado
• Ted Fujita (1920–1998), prominent severe storms researcher, referred to as Mr Tornado by associates and the media
• Tornado Alicia Black, a tennis player

Sports

Association Football

• Niger Tornadoes F.C., soccer club based in Minna, Nigeria
• Tornado Måløy FK, Norwegian football club
• Tornados de Humacao, Puerto Rican football club
• Twin Cities Tornado, initial name of the defunct Twin Cities Phoenix team
• Tulsa Tornados, former professional soccer team from Tulsa, Oklahoma
• Wichita Tornado, a soccer club in Wichita, Kansas, United States
• Xghajra Tornadoes F.C., football club from Xghajra, Malta

Basketball

• Nippon Tornadoes, Japanese basketball team
• Tornado, the supporters of KK Zadar basketball club
• Troon Tornadoes, Scottish basketball club

Rugby

• Ballymore Tornadoes, former Australian rugby union football club
• Eastern Tornadoes, were a New Zealand rugby league franchise
• Thornton Heath Tornadoes, junior Rugby League club based in Croydon, London

Other

• Chicago Tornadoes, a professional cricket franchise
• Golden Tornadoes, sports team of Geneva College
• Huntsville Tornado, former professional ice hockey team
• Midwest Tornados, professional inline hockey team based in Ballwin, Missouri
• 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
• Tornado Kick, another name for the Jump inside kick martial arts move
• Tornado Luxembourg, an ice hockey team in Luxembourg City
• Worcester Tornadoes, a minor-league baseball club in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• "The Tornado", a nickname for snooker player Tony Drago

Other

• Tornado Mart, Japanese, men's clothing retailer
• 9A52-4 Tornado Russian multiple rocket launcher
• BM-30 Smerch (“Tornado”) Russian multiple rocket launcher
• Tornados, a frozen snack food by Ruiz Foods

See also

• Toronado (disambiguation)
• Tournado (disambiguation)