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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:

Aircraft

• 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

Automobiles

• Tornado (car company), a British automobile manufacturer active in the late 1950s and early 1960s
• 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

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

Entertainment

• Tornado! (2003), 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

Locomotives

• 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

Other vehicles

• Tornado (sailboat), an Olympic class sailing catamaran
• Tornado, the name of several models of Benelli motorcycles (see List of Benelli motorcycles)

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

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