tornado

A violently rotating column of air that produces powerful, destructive winds.

This tag is for the meteorological event. For smaller vortices often created artificially or seen swirling around characters, use whirlwind.

See typhoon for hurricanes or other water-based cyclones (though there can be overlap since tornadoes can spawn from these storms).

Examples

Tornado

Whirlwind

See also

• storm
• typhoon