page_title: USS Tornado
section_title: Operational history 2000-2010
hierarchical_section_title: USS Tornado / Operational history 2000-2010
caption_attribution_description: English: BILOXI, Miss. (Dec. 6, 2004) USCGC Tornado (WPC-14)
context_page_description: USS Tornado is the fourteenth and last Cyclone class patrol ship, notable for being the only ship in the class designed with shaping features for signature management. She was laid down by Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana 25 August 1998 and launched 7 June 1999. She was commissioned by the United States Navy 24 June 2000, decommissioned 1 October 2004 and transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Tornado.
context_section_description: She was commissioned by the United States Navy 24 June 2000, decommissioned 1 October 2004 and transferred to the United States Coast Guard as USCGC Tornado (WPC-14).
caption: Tornado in the Gulf of Mexico, December 2004
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