Tornado Emoji

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Tornado Emoji

🌪️TornadoU+1F32A U+FE0FReady to copy

66 items. Tap one to copy it.

Tornado and storms 13

Tornado symbols 7

Tornado emoticons 3

Tornado drawings 2

Tornado words 12

Storm sayings 10

Whirlwind lines 6

Tornado combos 13

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How it works

The tornado emoji is 🌪️, from Emoji 0.7. Unicode’s character name for it is Cloud with tornado, with the note tornado, twister, yet CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files twister under 🌀 Cyclone instead.

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Tornado, cyclone, hurricane

🌪️ is the only emoji CLDR files under tornado and under whirlwind. 🌀 carries Unicode’s note typhoon, hurricane, and both words are filed there. The things differ: by Wikipedia a tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air reaching from the ground to the base of a cloud, and by Wiktionary a cyclone is a wind system that rotates around a low-pressure centre.

Where the word comes from

By Wikipedia, tornado comes from the Spanish tronada, thunderstorm, and its spelling was influenced by the Spanish tornado, the past participle of tornar, to twist or turn.

Questions and answers

What does the tornado emoji mean?

A tornado, or anything that sweeps through like one. Wiktionary gives the verb tornado a figurative sense, to sweep through something violently, and calls a whirlwind a person or events sweeping violently onward.

Is there a tornado symbol in plain text?

In Unicode, only the emoji: U+1F32A is the one character with tornado in its name, and its text style may still show in colour. As stand-ins this page uses ꩜, a Cham spiral, and ▼ for the funnel.

Is there a tornado Alt code?

No. Code page 437, which the old Alt codes follow, has no tornado, and U+1F32A is 127,786, above the top decimal Alt number, 65,535. By Wikipedia some apps turn the hexadecimal 1F32A into the character when Alt+X is pressed after it.

Is there a tornado symbol on a keyboard, or a tornado emoticon?

No key types one and no emoticon is standard. With plain keys, ((@)) is a whirl seen from above, and the drawn tornado is six lines of slashes and tildes.

All 66 items

Tornado and storms 13

  • Cloud with lightning U+1F329 U+FE0F. The emoji before Tornado in Unicode’s list. Filed under cloud and lightning. Emoji 0.7.
  • Cloud with lightning and rain U+26C8 U+FE0F. Filed under thunderstorm, thunder and rain. Emoji 0.7.
  • Cyclone U+1F300. Unicode notes it as typhoon, hurricane. Filed under cyclone, hurricane, typhoon and twister. Emoji 0.6.
  • Dashing away U+1F4A8. Filed under dash, fast and cloud. Emoji 0.6.
  • Derelict house U+1F3DA U+FE0F. Filed under derelict and house. Emoji 0.7.
  • Dizzy U+1F4AB. Filed under dizzy and stars. Emoji 0.6.
  • Face with spiral eyes U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB. Filed under dizzy, spiral and whoa. Emoji 13.1.
  • Fog U+1F32B U+FE0F. The emoji after Tornado in Unicode’s list. Filed under cloud and fog. Emoji 0.7.
  • High voltage U+26A1. Filed under lightning, thunder and danger. Emoji 0.6.
  • Leaf fluttering in wind U+1F343. Filed under wind, blow and leaf. Emoji 0.6.
  • Tornado U+1F32A U+FE0F. Unicode’s character name is Cloud with tornado, noted as tornado, twister. The only emoji filed under tornado and whirlwind. Emoji 0.7.
  • Warning U+26A0 U+FE0F. Filed under warning and caution. Emoji 0.6.
  • Wind face U+1F32C U+FE0F. Filed under wind, blow and cloud. Emoji 0.7.
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Tornado symbols 7

  • Black down-pointing triangle U+25BC. Not a tornado by name: a stand-in here for the funnel.
  • Cham punctuation spiral U+AA5C. Not a tornado by name: a stand-in here for a whirl seen from above.
  • Funnel from two triangles U+25E5 U+25E4. Black upper right triangle and Black upper left triangle, side by side.
  • Revolve, Han character U+65CB. A Han character. Unihan defines it as revolve, move in orbit; return.
  • Swirl, Han character U+6E26. A Han character. Unihan defines it as swirl, whirlpool, eddy.
  • Whirlwind, Han character U+98C6. A Han character. Unihan defines it as whirlwind, stormy gale.
  • White down-pointing triangle U+25BD. Not a tornado by name: a stand-in here for the funnel, in outline.

Tornado emoticons 3

  • ((@)) A whirl seen from above: an at sign in two rings. Plain ASCII
  • ~~((@))~~ The same whirl with wind either side. Plain ASCII
  • ▇▆▅▄▃▂▁ A funnel on its side, from seven of Unicode’s block characters

Tornado drawings 2

  • Tornado and a house, drawn Five lines of ASCII
  • Tornado, drawn Six lines of ASCII

Tornado words 12

  • Dust devil 🌪️ By Wiktionary: a small atmospheric vortex in clear, dry conditions that swirling dust makes visible
  • Funnel cloud 🌪️ By Wiktionary: a tapering, fast-rotating cloud that comes down from a bigger storm cloud and is a tornado if it reaches the ground
  • Landspout 🌪️ By Wiktionary: a kind of tornado not tied to a thunderstorm's mesocyclone
  • Rope tornado 🌪️ By Wiktionary: a tornado much longer than wide, and often sinuous
  • Storm chaser 🚗 By Wiktionary: a hobby or professional storm chaser
  • Supercell ⛈️ By Wiktionary: a severe thunderstorm whose updrafts and downdrafts are nearly in balance
  • Tornado warning 🚨 By Wikipedia: a public warning to an area in a tornado's path, or of a severe thunderstorm capable of producing one
  • Tornado watch ⚠️ By Wikipedia: a statement that conditions in a region may lead to tornadoes developing
  • Twister 🌪️ By Wiktionary, colloquial: a tornado
  • Waterspout 🌊 By Wiktionary: a whirlwind forming over water
  • Wedge tornado 🌪️ By Wiktionary: a tornado as wide as it is tall, or wider
  • Whirlwind 🌪️ By Wiktionary: a windstorm of small extent, like a waterspout, dust devil or tornado

Storm sayings 10

  • Any port in a storm By Wiktionary: one should accept any passable option in an adverse situation. Anchor, then tornado.
  • Calm before the storm By Wiktionary: a peaceful period before a crisis or disturbance. Sun, then right arrow, then tornado.
  • Cooking up a storm By Wiktionary, up a storm is an informal intensifier: in a remarkable or excited manner. Cooking, then tornado.
  • Eye of the storm By Wiktionary, as an idiom: a calm period in a tumultuous time. Tornado, then eye, then tornado.
  • Perfect storm By Wiktionary, figuratively: several adverse factors converging. Tornado, then hundred points.
  • Reap the whirlwind By Wiktionary: to suffer for what one has done. Sheaf of rice, then tornado.
  • Storm in a teacup By Wiktionary, UK: a big fuss about a trivial matter. Tornado, then teacup without handle.
  • Take by storm By Wiktionary: to get very popular in a place fast. Tornado, then glowing star.
  • Tempest in a teapot By Wiktionary: a big fuss about a trivial matter. Tornado, then teapot.
  • Weather the storm By Wiktionary: to get to the end of a very hard situation without too much damage or harm. Tornado, then flexed biceps.

Whirlwind lines 6

  • 🌪️ Monday came through here For a desk
  • 🌪️ My room, after one weekend For a photo
  • 🌪️ Packing in a hurry For a status
  • 🌪️ Tidy before ___ arrives Fill in the blank
  • 🌪️ The toddler has entered the kitchen For a status
  • 🌪️ Whirlwind week. Reply on ___ Fill in the blank

Tornado combos 13

  • Dust devil Tornado, then desert.
  • Fire whirl Fire, then tornado.
  • Head spinning Tornado, then face with spiral eyes.
  • Messy room Tornado, then bed.
  • Storm chase Automobile, then dashing away, then tornado.
  • Storm has passed Tornado, then right arrow, then rainbow.
  • Storm season Tornado, then calendar.
  • Three tornadoes Tornado, three times.
  • Tornado siren Police car light, then tornado.
  • Twister on the plain Tornado, then sheaf of rice, then house.
  • Waterspout Tornado, then water wave.
  • Whirlwind romance Tornado, then red heart.
  • Whirlwind tour Tornado, then airplane, then world map.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Tornado is U+1F32A U+FE0F, Emoji 0.7, in the group Travel & Places, subgroup sky & weather, between Cloud with lightning and Fog. CLDR gives it four words (cloud, tornado, weather, whirlwind) and files no other emoji under tornado or whirlwind; it files twister, hurricane and typhoon under Cyclone (U+1F300, Emoji 0.6) alone. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt): U+1F32A is named Cloud with tornado and is the one character with tornado in its name. Unicode's notes (Cloud with tornado: tornado, twister; Cyclone: typhoon, hurricane) are from NamesList.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); U+1F32A dates from Unicode 7.0 by DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt) and has a text style row in https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt. The three Han characters are defined as in the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip). Code page 437, which the old Alt codes follow, has no tornado (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437). That some apps take decimal Alt numbers up to 65,535 and turn a hexadecimal number into its character with Alt+X is from Wikipedia, Alt code and Unicode input (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt_code, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input). What a tornado is, where the word comes from, and what a tornado watch and a tornado warning are, are from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_watch, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_warning). The tornado words and the sayings are as Wiktionary gives them (CC BY-SA 4.0): tornado (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tornado), twister (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/twister), whirlwind (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/whirlwind), cyclone (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cyclone), funnel cloud (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/funnel_cloud), waterspout (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waterspout), dust devil (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dust_devil), landspout (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/landspout), supercell (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/supercell), wedge tornado (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wedge_tornado), rope tornado (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rope_tornado), firenado (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/firenado), storm chaser (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/storm_chaser), calm before the storm (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/calm_before_the_storm), eye of the storm (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eye_of_the_storm), storm in a teacup (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/storm_in_a_teacup), tempest in a teapot (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tempest_in_a_teapot), weather the storm (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/weather_the_storm), take by storm (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_by_storm), reap the whirlwind (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/reap_the_whirlwind), perfect storm (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/perfect_storm), any port in a storm (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/any_port_in_a_storm), up a storm (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/up_a_storm). The three typed whirls, the two drawings, the six lines and the thirteen combos are this site's own work, and so is the use of the spiral and the triangles as stand-ins. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, with definitions from the Unihan database, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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