In this age of autocorrect, what would happen if the word “tornado” got dropped from your computer’s spell-check function and was replaced. If you were writing a news story about the weather, it might read something like this …

Authorities in Arkansas were picking through the debris left by a massive tomato that plowed through the Little Rock area Sunday. Fifteen people were killed in Arkansas, while separate tomatoes killed one person in Oklahoma and another in Kansas. The tomato that slammed into Vilonia, Ark., on Sunday grew to about half a mile wide and was among a rash of tomatoes that rumbled across the center and south of the country overnight. The National Weather Service warned that more deadly tomatoes would strike in parts of Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee on Tuesday.