Tornado (disambiguation)

• A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air that contacts the surface of the earth.

Tornado may also refer to:

Transport

Aviation

• B-45 Tornado, an American bomber aircraft
• Beardmore Tornado, a diesel airship engine fitted to the R101
• Hawker Tornado, a World War II, single–seat British fighter 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
• Wright R-2160 Tornado, aircraft engine
• XP-68 Tornado, a proposed version of the XP-54 Swoose Goose

Maritime

• Tornado (sailboat), a high performance catamaran, formerly an Olympic sailing class
• HMS Tornado, World War 1, Royal Navy R class destroyer (1916)
• Texas Tornado sailboat, a 16 ft. sailing dinghy.
• USCGC Tornado, United States Coastguard, Cyclone class patrol ship. Formerly the US Navy, USS Tornado (PC-14)
• Spanish cruiser 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• BR Standard Class 7 70022 Tornado, built at Crewe 1951, withdrawn 1967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, GWR no. 2139, one of the Tornado class locomotives. Its driver was killed when its boiler exploded in 1860
• Tornado was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on 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
• Jeep Tornado engine, the first mass-produced overhead cam (OHC) engine
• Tornado (car company), a British automobile manufacturer active in the late 1950s and early 1960s
• Tornado Fuel Saver, an aftermarket device that is claimed to inprove fuel economy
• Tornado Intercept Vehicle, a modified automobile used for storm chasing
• Tornado, the name 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

Entertainment

Amusement rides

• Blue Tornado, roller coaster at Gardaland, near Verona, Italy
• Tornado (ride) a traveling midway ride
• Tornado (Adventureland), a wooden roller coaster at Adventureland in Altoona, Iowa
• Tornado (Särkänniemi), an inverted steel roller coaster at Särkänniemi in Tampere, Finland
• Tornado, a type of water slide, manufactured by Proslide, which ends in a large funnel.
• Tornado (Coney Island), a 1920s Coney Island rollercoaster

Film

• Tornado! (1996), a television movie starring Bruce Campbell and Shannon Sturges
• Tornado (1943 film)
• Toronado (Zorro horse), Zorro's horse
• The Tornado, a 1917 film directed by John Ford

Music

• Pork Tornado, rock, and country-western band
• PCP Tornado, a 2-CD compilation released by the band Agoraphobic Nosebleed
• Texas Tornado (song), country music song
• The Tornadoes, an American surf band
• The Tornados or The Tornadoes, an English instrumental band
• Tornado (band), a Serbian metal band
• "T.O.R.N.A.D.O.", a 2010 song by The Go! Team.

Fictional characters

• Red Tornado, comic book superhero
• Tornado, a character from NX Files
• Tornado Twins, comic book superheroes

Other

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

Computing and technology

• HTC Tornado, smartphone
• Mobile Tornado, mobile-data, technology company
• Tornado codes, a class of fast erasure codes
• Tornado, a proprietary DOS-based personal information manager software application, which later became InfoSelect
• Tornado, a scalable, non-blocking web server written in Python
• Tornado 3D, a critically acclaimed 3D rendering package for the Commodore Amiga

Computer games

• Blazing Tornado, professional wrestling arcade game
• Tornado (video game), a 1993 flight simulator game
• Tornado, a 2008 Nintendo DS game
• The Tornado, a biplane from the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series that is usually flown by Miles "Tails" Prower. Later games feature variations of the plane (including the "X-Tornado" which only appears in the anime series Sonic X)
• Tornado Low Level, 1984 game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC
• Tornado Mania!, mobile game

Post offices

• Tornado Post Office, United States

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

Sports

Association Football

• Niger Tornadoes F.C., soccer club based in Minna, Nigeria
• 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
• North Mississippi Tornadoes, Basketball team from Southaven, Mississippi
• 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
• 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
• Tornados (food), a frozen snack food by Ruiz Foods