Tornado Emoji Kitchen
Tornado is complete: 619 pairings covering every supported emoji. It launched with 98 on 1 October 2020, which was modest, and the decisive release came much later when 211 arrived at once on 6 February 2024. Twenty-seven releases in total. For a weather emoji that most people use figuratively rather than literally, that is a lot of sustained attention.
Every Tornado mashup, and the day Google shipped it
Google added Tornado to Emoji Kitchen on 1 October 2020, starting with 98 combinations. It now mixes with 619 emojis, built up over 27 separate releases. The most recent, on 29 April 2026, added 1.
| Release | Combinations added | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0.2% | |
| 27 | 4.4% | |
| 3 | 0.5% | |
| 5 | 0.8% | |
| 6 | 1.0% | |
| 2 | 0.3% | |
| 6 | 1.0% | |
| 3 | 0.5% | |
| 16 | 2.6% | |
| 211 | 34.1% | |
| 2 | 0.3% | |
| 31 | 5.0% | |
| 15 earlier drops | 306 | 49.4% |
Newest Tornado pairings
These partners arrived in the 29 April 2026 release, so they are the ones least likely to have been seen before.
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See every Emoji Kitchen release, with what each one added
Dates read from the Emoji Kitchen sticker assets Google serves through Gboard, which stamp each combination with the release that introduced it.
February 2024 finished the job
Tornado spent its first three years as a mid-table entry. The 211-sticker release in February 2024 roughly doubled it overnight and set up the final push to complete coverage. That single release is larger than the entire combination set of several emoji on this page, which is worth sitting with for a moment: Google added more tornado pairings in one day than car has in total after four years.
A funnel is a container
The reason tornado composes with anything is the same reason the mouse trap does. A funnel shape has an inside. Whatever you pair it with can be swept up, scattered around it or placed in the vortex, and the result still reads as a tornado carrying something. That gives the artists an easy rule to follow for every partner, and easy rules are what produce complete sets. Expressive faces have no equivalent rule, which is why so few of them finish.
Make your own mashup
Want to combine different emojis? Use the interactive Emoji Kitchen tool to create your own custom mashups.
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Tornado Emoji Kitchen FAQ
How many tornado combinations exist?
619, which is every supported emoji. Tornado has complete coverage, so nothing in the grid above will come back empty.
When did tornado get most of its mashups?
6 February 2024, when one release added 211. It had launched in October 2020 with 98 and grown slowly until then. The releases since have added only a handful each.
Is there a hurricane or cyclone emoji?
The cyclone emoji exists as a separate character and has its own Emoji Kitchen entry and combination set. It is commonly confused with this one, so if a sticker you remember is not here, that is the first place to look.
Further reading
- Every Emoji Kitchen update since 2020All 43 dated drops and 147,000 pairings, counted from Googleโs own data files.
- How to use Emoji Mixer and KitchenWhich pairs actually produce a mashup, and which do nothing.
- Free online emoji gamesWhat to play, and which ones are actually hard.
- Free online emoji keyboardType emoji on any device without installing anything.