The phrase "a recent tornado" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a tornado that occurred not long ago, typically within a timeframe that is relevant to the discussion.
Example: "The community is still recovering from a recent tornado that caused significant damage to homes and infrastructure."
Alternatives: "a recent storm" or "a recent twister".
Q.Yesterday I received e-mail from a friend in North Carolina discussing the effects of a recent tornado.
Then, nothing again but red road, big sky and a dry creek lined with strange, skeletal trees, snapped and scattered like matchwood by a recent tornado.
A recent tornado had ripped the American flag from a pole on that garage, although it hadn't harmed the Confederate flag hanging from his neighbor's porch.
As Susan immediately realizes, this is a serious mistake in God-fearing Plainview, Kan., where a recent tornado has demolished the high school, destroyed farms and businesses and killed 17 people.
At the top of the highest climb, you'll get a bird's-eye view of the after effects of a recent tornado along Route 23 and on the back side of the Butternut ski basin.
On a recent tornado-ish night, there was, as a special, a traditional stew called jjigae, cooked with kimchi (Kim's mother-in-law makes Kim's kimchi) that had been aged for six months.
By transferring these pets to PAWS Chicago, we are enabling the shelter to take in and care for the more than 150 animals who have been displaced as a result of the recent tornado and will give them a chance to be reclaimed by their owners".
Within 24 hours of this most recent tornado in Oklahoma, Olsen found himself with a showroom full of customers, a phone ringing off the hook and not enough staff.
In the recent Tornado software (Rivas et al., 2012), a (context-free) grammar is at the heart of a declarative specification, whose implementation is automated.
Arboreal carnage is everywhere, evoking the aftermath of Brooklyn's recent tornado.
