Tornado (disambiguation)

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 main line steam locomotive built in the UK in 2008
* "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.
* "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.
* "Tornado", the supporters of Zadar basketball club KK Zadar.

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 ( [http://www.miclog.com/is/ link-out] )
* Tornado (program), an application to help manage Tor (anonymity network)
* Tornado (OS), a multiprocessor Operating System