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🌪️Tornado Emoji

Tagged cloud, weather and whirlwind, 🌪️ tornado sits in Unicode's Weather group inside Travel & Places. It was introduced in Unicode 7.0 (2014) at U+1F32A U+FE0F.

What 🌪️ tornado means

Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.

Unicode tags this one cloud, weather and whirlwind and files it under Travel & Places → Weather.

Copy variants

tornado carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How 🌪️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

🌪U+1F32Atornado
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F32A U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`🌪️`
HTML decimal	`🌪️`
CSS	`\1F32A\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F32A}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F32A\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83C\uDF2A\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f32a}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F32A}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F32A}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%8C%AA%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 8C AA EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83C DF2A FE0F`
Base64	`8J+Mqu+4jw==`
Decimal	`127786 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Keywords

cloud
weather
whirlwind

Appears in these collections

How to type 🌪️

Windows — press Win + . and search “tornado”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cloud”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f32a and Enter.
HTML — paste 🌪️.

How 🌪️ renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🌪️Apple
🌪️Segoe
🌪️Noto
🌪️System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🌪️ tornado emoji mean?+

🌪️ is the tornado emoji, tagged cloud, weather and whirlwind. Weather doubles as mood throughout. 🔥 long ago stopped meaning fire and now means excellent; 🌊 and ⚡ intensify rather than describe; 🌈 reads as LGBTQ+ pride at least as often as weather. Unicode encodes all eight lunar phases as separate characters, plus four moons with faces, and 🌚 is used mainly for deadpan mischief.

What is the Unicode code for 🌪️?+

tornado is U+1F32A U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🌪️, in CSS \1F32A\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F32A}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🌪️ emoji added?+

tornado got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🌪️ tornado.