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[[AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle If you want more information about tornadoes and what you ''should'' do to survive them]], please check out [[the US National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center tornado safety page http://www.spc.noaa.gov/faq/tornado/safety.html]] and our very own UsefulNotes/{{Tornadoes}}.

*** Because he's [[Badass Auron]]?

** The tornado in ''WesternAnimation/TheBandConcert'' acts as if it were sentient, sucking up trees and buildings like a vaccum cleaner. It picks up Mickey and his band while they are still playing, too rapt up in the music to notice, and drops them harmlessly around a tree like Christmas ornaments.

*** Similar whirlwinds appear in ''Playful Pluto'' and ''A Gentleman's Gentleman'' to bedevil WesternAnimation/PlutoThePup.

* A RonWhite routine refers to a real news story about a man refusing to be evacuated during a storm (actually a hurricane), saying he was going to tie himself to a pole to prove that [[TooDumbToLive he was in good enough shape to withstand the wind.]] As Ron pointed out "If you get hit with a ''Volvo'', it doesn't really matter how many sit-ups you did that morning."

* In the ''VideoGame/SkyOdyssey'' mission "the storm before the calm" the player is required to fly through a hurricane like storm over the Dark Sea. In this level you have to avoid touching the thunderclouds or else your plane gets blown into the ground. Also in the mission you get sucked into a tornado like vortex. You have to fly through the center of the funnel without touching the cloud walls. Failure to do so causes your aircraft to explode.   

* ''VideoGame/Assassin's Creed IV'' has waterspouts; even though only the funnel itself damages your ship, they will still pull you towards them from further away.

* The ''Manga/LupinIII'' TV movie ''Anime/LupinIIITheColumbusFiles'' has a waterspout at the end threaten to suck up everything nearby, including our hero and his gang. Their solution? Simply fly at it on an airplane and have [[{{Samurai}} Goemon]] ''cut it in half''. ImplausibleFencingPowers indeed.

* On March 28, 2000, [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas]] was severely damaged after a particularly bad storm system spawned a number of tornadoes. One managed to beat the odds and run right through downtown Ft. Worth--some buildings were destroyed outright, and a few skyline buildings had to be demolished later. That the tornado sucked up so much debris complicated the cleanup process. Since most of the highrise buildings in Ft. Worth and other major Sunbelt cities are faced entirely of reflective glass, to cut down on air conditioning costs, the tornado amounted to a funnel cloud made out of shards of broken glass. Downtown Ft. Worth was barricaded off for a few days after the storm, because large pieces of broken glass continued to fall out of the window frames.

* As described above, tornadoes can be incredibly capricious. The 2013 Morse, Oklahoma tornado destroyed most of the town, including smashing a bowling alley to bits. However, in one lane it left all 10 pins standing.

* The ''Manga/LupinIII'' TV movie ''Recap/TheColumbusFiles'' has a waterspout at the end threaten to suck up everything nearby, including our hero and his gang. Their solution? Simply fly at it on an airplane and have [[{{Samurai}} Goemon]] ''cut it in half''. ImplausibleFencingPowers indeed.

Unless, of course, you live in [[HollywoodScience the land of make-believe]]. There, only the visible funnel cloud is actually capable of damaging anything, and then, they usually don't even stir up any debris. Never mind that in real life the funnel cloud is only the ''center'' of the tornado, with wide radius of 300+ MPH ground winds pulling air (and earth and [[Film/{{Twister}} cows]] and so forth) into the funnel. Forget the fact that even an EF-1 tornado (on a scale of 0 to 5 in power) can rip the roofs off buildings and turn cars into flying battering rams, not to mention that an EF-5 tornado's damage level is scientifically described on the scale as [[StuffBlowingUp "explosive"]] [[hottip:*:Though it should be noted that [[CommonKnowledge tornadoes don't literally make things explode]]. As long as you don't touch the funnel cloud, you're in the clear every time. Yep.

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* ''Film/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'' has a [[RecycledInSPACE twister made out of spaghetti and meatballs]] averting this trope, as while the spaghetti twister doesn't do much damage, the meatballs are like a [[IncrediblyLamePun meateor shower,]] devastating the island.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/RockADoodle'', the evil Duke of Owls actually turns into one of these as part of his OneWingedAngel act as a last-minute attempt to kill all the animals living on Chanticleer's farm since none of them drowned in the flood the Duke sent to destroy the farm.

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Unless, of course, you live in [[HollywoodScience the land of make-believe]]. There, only the visible funnel cloud is actually capable of damaging anything, and then, they usually don't even stir up any debris. Never mind that in real life the funnel cloud is only the ''center'' of the tornado, with wide radius of 300+ MPH ground winds pulling air (and earth and [[Film/{{Twister}} cows]] and so forth) into the funnel. Forget the fact that even an EF-1 tornado (on a scale of 0 to 5 in power) can rip the roofs off buildings and turn cars into flying battering rams, not to mention that an EF-5 tornado's damage level is scientifically described on the scale as [[StuffBlowingUp "explosive"]] [[hottip:*:Though it should be noted that [[CommonKnowledge tornadoes don't actually make things explode]]. As long as you don't touch the funnel cloud, you're in the clear every time. Yep.

Unless, of course, you live in [[HollywoodScience the land of make-believe]]. There, only the visible funnel cloud is actually capable of damaging anything, and then, they usually don't even stir up any debris. Never mind that in real life the funnel cloud is only the ''center'' of the tornado, with wide radius of 300+ MPH ground winds pulling air (and earth and [[Film/{{Twister}} cows]] and so forth) into the funnel. Forget the fact that even an EF-1 tornado (on a scale of 0 to 5 in power) can rip the roofs off buildings and turn cars into flying battering rams, not to mention that an EF-5 tornado's damage level is scientifically described on the scale as [[StuffBlowingUp "explosive"]] (though it needs to be noted that tornadoes don't actually make things explode). As long as you don't touch the funnel cloud, you're in the clear every time. Yep.

* Used in a filler episode of ''Manga/DragonBall Z''. A dragonball is caught in a tornado, which our heroes are watching from less than fifty feet away without so much as upsetting their balance. The obvious solution to their dilemma: send the super-powered five-year-old flying into the storm to retrieve the ball. [[spoiler: Granted, this all turned out to be an illusion later, but the improbability of this isn't really touched on by the characters at all.]]