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🌪️ Tornado
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🌪️ Emoji meaning
Turmoil, a state of emergency, danger, chaos, upheaval, and devastation.
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🌪️ Meaning
A tornado is a tremendous natural phenomenon, leaving a trail of devastation. It symbolizes danger. In a figurative sense, for restlessness or turbulent situations: failures and disappointments are possible.
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Commonly confused with
Same Emotion
Dashing away vs tornado; both involve motion and wind, so 💨 can be mistaken for weather rather than movement.
Same Shape
Tornado vs cyclone; spiral storm symbols, both used for severe weather.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Tornado” was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014 and added to Emoji 0.7 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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+ weather
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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+ tornado
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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+ cloud + whirlwind
In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.
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- tornado
