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Tornadoes of 2023

The tornadoes of 2023 brought about 1,200 U.S. tornadoes and 86 deaths, defined by a record March, the Rolling Fork, Mississippi EF4, and the March 31 outbreak, one of the largest single-day outbreaks in U.S. history.

Tornadoes of 2024

The tornadoes of 2024 produced 1,796 confirmed tornadoes in the United States, the second-highest annual count on record behind 2004, with 54 deaths across 17 states.

Tornadoes of 2025

The tornadoes of 2025 in the United States produced 1,559 preliminary tornadoes, the fifth-highest total on record, including an EF5 near Enderlin, North Dakota, the first since 2013.

Tornadoes of 2026

The tornadoes of 2026 include a record 148 tornadoes in Illinois by June, a deadly March outbreak, and a destructive July EF3 near Appleton, Wisconsin.

Tornadoes striking downtown areas of large cities

Tornadoes striking downtown areas of large cities are tornadoes whose paths cross a major city's downtown core, such as Salt Lake City in 1999 and Atlanta in 2008.

Tornadogenesis

Tornadogenesis is the process by which a tornado forms, concentrating existing thunderstorm rotation into a small, intensely spinning column of air in contact with the ground.

Oct 21, 2026

Tornarsuk (crater on Callisto)

Tornarsuk, IAU-approved 1979, is a 99-km-diameter impact crater on Callisto at 28.8°N, 127.6°W, named for a Greenland legendary hero, on the solar system's most heavily cratered moon.

Torne Valley

Torne Valley (Tornedalen, Tornionlaakso): cross-border region along the 510 km Torne River on the Sweden-Finland border; 21 municipalities, 80,000 inhabitants; Meänkieli-speaking; border drawn 1809; closed by Finland in 2020.

Tornedalians

Tornedalians are a Finnish-speaking national minority in Sweden and northwestern Finland living in the Torne River valley; their Meänkieli language and minority status were officially recognized in 1999.

Torneo Brasileiro de Robótica

Torneio Brasil de Robótica (TBR), also rendered Torneo Brasileiro de Robótica, is a Brazilian educational robotics tournament, running since 2010, for school and university teams.

Torness nuclear power plant

Torness nuclear power station is a twin-reactor power station near Dunbar in East Lothian, Scotland, operated by EDF Energy since 1988 and now Scotland's last operating nuclear plant.

Oct 21, 2026

Torneträsk

Torneträsk (Duortnosjávri), Sweden's sixth largest lake and largest unregulated lake, a 331 km2 subarctic mountain lake in Norrbotten near Abisko; outlet Tarrakoski starts the protected Torneälven; max depth 168 m; ice records since 1873.

Torngat Mountains

Torngat Mountains (Inuit Torngait, place of spirits): Arctic Cordillera range on northern Labrador, Canada, highest peak Mount Caubvick/Mont d'Iberville 1,652 m, over 40 glaciers, Torngat Orogen rocks to 3.9 Ga, and 9,700 km2 Torngat Mountains National Park co-managed with Inuit.

Tornike Kvaratskhelia (თორნიკე კვარაცხელია)

Tornike Kvaratskhelia (თორნიკე კვარაცხელია), born 2010, is a Georgian left winger for Dinamo Tbilisi and Georgia U21, younger brother of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia; distinct from a 1999-born goalkeeper namesake.

Tornio Manga LNG Terminal

The Tornio Manga LNG Terminal is an LNG import terminal in Tornio, Finland, delivered by Wärtsilä and the largest LNG and biogas terminal in the Nordic countries.

Tornjak

Tornjak, the Bosnian-Herzegovinian and Croatian Shepherd dog, is a large FCI-recognized livestock guardian dog breed from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, revived from near extinction in the 1970s and fully FCI-recognized in 2017.

Oct 21, 2026

Tornoceras

Tornoceras (Hyatt, 1884) is an extinct Devonian goniatite ammonoid genus, family Tornoceratidae, with an involute subdiscoidal shell and six to ten suture lobes; ranges Middle Givetian to Early Famennian, known from Laurentia and Gondwana.

Tornos (company)

Tornos is a Swiss manufacturer of automatic turning machines headquartered in Moutier, in the Jura, a pioneer of Swiss-type sliding headstock lathes since 1914 that Starrag acquired in 2023.

Oct 3, 2026

Toro (2016 film)

Toro is a 2016 Spanish action thriller directed by Kike Maíllo, starring Mario Casas as a former con man forced back into crime to save his brother and niece.

Toro (トロ) (sushi)

Toro (トロ), fatty tuna belly used for sushi and sashimi, divides into chutoro (medium-fat, about 15–20% fat) and otoro (fattiest belly near the head). Named from torori, "melting in the mouth"; akami is the lean contrast.

Toro y Moi

Toro y Moi is the project of Chaz Bear (born Bundick, 1986), a Columbia, South Carolina chillwave pioneer signed to Carpark Records in 2009; albums from Causers of This (2010) to Hole Erth (2024), plus Les Sins and a 2020 Grammy nomination with Flume.

Torodbe

The Torodbe were a West African Muslim clerisy, defined by vocation rather than ethnicity, from Futa Toro, whose jihads founded Bundu, Futa Jalon, and the Sokoto Caliphate.

Toroidal dipole

A toroidal dipole, or anapole, is an electromagnetic multipole produced by poloidal currents flowing on a torus, proposed by Zel'dovich in 1957 and hard to observe because it radiates like an electric dipole.

Toroidal dipole resonance

Toroidal dipole resonances are electromagnetic excitations from poloidal currents on a torus, forming a third dipole family alongside electric and magnetic dipoles, first observed in metamaterials in 2010.

Toroidal dipole resonances in metasurfaces

Toroidal dipole resonances in metasurfaces are resonant modes in engineered periodic surfaces where poloidal currents on a torus produce a dominant toroidal dipole, distinct from electric and magnetic dipoles.

Toroidal metamaterial

A toroidal metamaterial is an artificially engineered medium whose resonant electromagnetic response is dominated by the toroidal dipole, first demonstrated in 2010 in microwave metamaterials by University of Southampton researchers and later at optical frequencies.