Not only is there a consensus among federal agencies that the populated place named Tornado never existed and the short lived census designated place named Tornado should never have been created but this consensus is shared by all state and local government agencies as well The United States Board on Geographic Names is the final arbiter in all issues related to geographic names in the United States and their definitive opinion is that Tornado was only ever a variant name for Upper Falls Thus my merger of the Tornado West Virginia article here will only include references to the Tornado Post Office and not the Tornado CDP which was created in error It should be noted that the Tornado CDP had most of its population in Lincoln County while the Upper Falls CDP is contained completely within Kanawha County Therefore no comparisons between the two are even possible as their geographic overlap was relatively tiny The Tornado CDP was ill conceived ill planned and ill executed and is now universally acknowledged as such including by those who did it