Tornado

Quality:

Tornado - violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the earth's surface and a cumulonimbus cloud in the air. Article “Tornado” in Simple English Wikipedia has 53.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 25 references and 10 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 852^nd most popular in Simple English Wikipedia.

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The 436^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 2391^st most popular in all topics.

The 1469^th most popular in AI.

Achievements in the last month:

Simple English Wikipedia:

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The 2558^th most popular in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

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The 2517^th most editable in Simple English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5447^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2026 the article “Tornado” was edited by 1 authors in Simple English Wikipedia (2517^th place) and written by 19 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Tornado”, its content was written by 123 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia (436^th place) and edited by 5653 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (1469^th place).

The article is cited 231 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 14393 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #8 in December 2015
• Global: #254 in May 2007

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #65 in August 2010
• Global: #275 in May 2013

There are 54 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Tornado		95.3765
2	Spanish (es) Tornado		94.6144
3	Persian (fa) پیچند		93.8069
4	Galician (gl) Tornado		92.8784
5	French (fr) Tornade		87.0277
6	Italian (it) Tromba d'aria		85.9247
7	Russian (ru) Смерч		85.7576
8	Greek (el) Σίφωνας		80.424
9	Polish (pl) Tornado		79.3741
10	Indonesian (id) Tornado		77.9328

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tornado		25 637 667
2	Spanish (es) Tornado		7 239 970
3	German (de) Tornado		4 696 548
4	Russian (ru) Смерч		4 268 917
5	Japanese (ja) 竜巻		2 248 157
6	French (fr) Tornade		2 227 094
7	Polish (pl) Tornado		2 202 703
8	Portuguese (pt) Tornado		1 847 226
9	Italian (it) Tromba d'aria		1 435 124
10	Chinese (zh) 龍捲風		1 060 470

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Tornado		72 297
2	Russian (ru) Смерч		16 710
3	German (de) Tornado		11 858
4	Spanish (es) Tornado		6 909
5	Polish (pl) Tornado		5 340
6	French (fr) Tornade		4 214
7	Italian (it) Tromba d'aria		3 671
8	Japanese (ja) 竜巻		3 532
9	Czech (cs) Tornádo		2 427
10	Chinese (zh) 龍捲風		2 409

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Tornado		1 419
2	German (de) Tornado		393
3	French (fr) Tornade		372
4	Spanish (es) Tornado		284
5	Dutch (nl) Tornado (wervelwind)		245
6	Italian (it) Tromba d'aria		230
7	Russian (ru) Смерч		228
8	Polish (pl) Tornado		172
9	Portuguese (pt) Tornado		164
10	Hebrew (he) טורנדו		138

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Spanish (es) Tornado		3
2	Russian (ru) Смерч		3
3	Polish (pl) Tornado		2
4	Azerbaijani (az) Tornado		1
5	Catalan (ca) Tornado		1
6	Czech (cs) Tornádo		1
7	English (en) Tornado		1
8	Basque (eu) Tornado		1
9	Hungarian (hu) Tornádó		1
10	Indonesian (id) Tornado		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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The WikiRank project is intended for automatic relative evaluation of the articles in the various language versions of Wikipedia. At the moment the service allows to compare over 50 million Wikipedia articles in 55 languages. Quality scores of articles are based on Wikipedia dumps from July, 2026. When calculating current popularity and AI of articles data from June 2026 was taken into account. For historical values of popularity and AI WikiRank used data from 2001 to 2026... More information