a. [f. next + -IC.] Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a tornado.
1877. Eutaw (AL) Whig & Observer, 10 May, 2/3. For ten years, the storm burst of human passion and revenge of last Sunday [by a violent mob] has been impending, and gathering its forces for a tornadic outburst.
1879. W. D. Bickham, From Ohio to the Rocky Mountains, Let. iv. 41. They [the winds] gather in the titanic rifts of the Rocky Mountains as in mighty funnels, and rush over the unobstructing barrenness with tornadic sweep.
1884. Amer. Meteorol. Jrnl., I. 7. Four series of storms of tornadic character have passed over the states east of the Mississippi River since the beginning of the year.
1890. Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch, 13 June. These are tornadic conditions.
1898. H. W. Lucy, in Daily News, 18 Feb., 2/2. Mr. Orchardson’s portrait … presenting the ex-Speaker in one of his not unfamiliar tornadic moods.
