Tornado (disambiguation)

A tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud. They can mainly come from cumulonimbus clouds. Tornado may also refer to:

• Tornado, West Virginia, United States

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 replica 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.

Entertainment

• Tornado! (1996), a television movie starring Bruce Campbell and Shannon Sturges
• Tornado (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa
• 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
• The Tornado, a 1917 film directed by John Ford

People

• Steve Debbes, a South African professional wrestler who goes 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