Tornado (disambiguation)

A tornado is a violent windstorm characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud.

Tornado may also refer to:

Comics

• Tornado (comic), a short-lived weekly British comic
• Red Tornado, a fictional superhero in the DC Universe
• Red Tornado (Golden Age), a fictional DC Comics superheroine
• Tornado Twins, fictional superheroes in the DC Comics Universe

Entertainment

• Tornado (robot), a competitor on the UK television series Robot Wars
• Tornado (Sonic the Hedgehog) and Tornado II, planes in the Sonic the Hedgehog universe
• The Human Tornado (1976), a cult blaxploitation film
• Tornado Records, a record label

Transportation

• Tornado (sailboat), an Olympic class sailing catamaran
• 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
• LNER Peppercorn Class A1 60163 Tornado, a replica steam locomotive being built in the UK
• Tornado (1849 - 1881), a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
• Tornado (1854 - 1884), a South Devon Railway Tornado class steam locomotive
• Tornado (1888 - 1892), a Great Western Railway Rover class steam locomotive

Military

• 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

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
• Tornado (program), an application to help you manage Tor (anonymity network) on the Free Software Foundation Privacy Key

Sport teams

• Worcester Tornadoes, a minor league baseball club in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
• Texas Tornado, a Junior A hockey team in Frisco, Texas, United States
• Wichita Tornado, a soccer club based in Wichita, Kansas, United States
• Racine Legion/Tornadoes or Orange/Newark Tornadoes, now-defunct National Football League teams

Other uses

• Tornado, West Virginia, United States
• Human Tornado (born 1983), an American professional wrestler
• Colin Edwards (born 1974), also known as the "Texas Tornado", a Grand Prix motorcycle road racer from the United States