Tornado (disambiguation)
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- A tornado is a violent, rotating column of air that contacts the surface of the earth.
Tornado may also refer to:
[edit] Transport
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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- BR Standard Class 7 70022 Tornado, built at Crewe 1951, withdrawn 1967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.
[edit] 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
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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.
[edit] Fictional characters
- Red Tornado, comic book superhero
- Tornado, a character from NX Files
- Tornado Twins, comic book superheroes
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Post offices
- Tornado Post Office, United States
[edit] 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
[edit] Sports
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
[edit] Other
- Tornado Mart, Japanese, men's clothing retailer
- Tornados (food), a frozen snack food by Ruiz Foods
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