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Tornado, a still.
True size1.2km tall3,937 ft
Weather & Fire · Built from a recipe

Tornado

No. 333 of 374, smallest first
A typical one: funnel, cloud base to ground, ~1.5 km

PlaygroundPull back from here

A tornado is a spinning column of air that reaches down from a thunderstorm to the ground.

Shelf
Weather & Fire
Kind
Built from a recipe
Sound
Yes
Licenses
Own work (made in the page)

How to play, in the Playground

Tap to spin it up. Set its power in the Splash tab.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Spin it upTap
PowerSlider0 to 100%60%
Spin upButton

About it

A tornado is a spinning column of air that reaches down from a thunderstorm to the ground. It is the most violent kind of storm on Earth: its winds can blow faster than 400 kilometers an hour, though most tornadoes are much weaker and last only a few minutes. The United States has more tornadoes than any other country, about 1,200 a year.

Tap it to spin it up: the funnel widens and whirls faster, dust boils up at its foot, and the planks, clods and leaves on the field are lifted one by one, spiral up around it, then fall back where they lay as it weakens. The Power slider in the Splash tab sets how hard it swirls.

Sources and credits

Made in Splashery. Its code is MIT.

Share it

This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.

https://splashery.app/play/?toy=tornado<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="tornado"></splashery-toy>

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