Tornado (Parque de Atracciones de Madrid)

Tornado
Parque de Atracciones de Madrid
Coordinates 40°24′48″N 3°44′53″W / 40.4134°N 3.7480°W / 40.4134; -3.7480Coordinates: 40°24′48″N 3°44′53″W / 40.4134°N 3.7480°W / 40.4134; -3.7480
Status Operating
Opening date May 23, 1999 (1999-05-23)
General statistics
Type Steel – Inverted
Manufacturer Intamin
Designer Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH
Height 98 ft (30 m)
Length 2,624.7 ft (800.0 m)
Speed 49.7 mph (80.0 km/h)
Inversions 3
Duration 2:00
G-force 4
Height restriction 120 cm (3 ft 11 in)
Tornado at RCDB
Pictures of Tornado at RCDB

The Tornado is a steel inverted roller coaster at the Parque de Atracciones de Madrid in Casa de Campo, Madrid, Spain. Manufactured by Intamin, it opened on May 23, 1999.[1][2]

Description

Tornado is an inverted roller coaster with a length of 2,624.7 feet (800 meters) and a height of 98 feet.[1][2] It is unusual among inverted roller coasters made by Intamin in using a chain lift rather than a magnetic launcher.[3] It features 3 inversions, 2 loops, a corkscrew, and a 30m drop to 80 km/h.[2]

The ride was designed by Ingenieur Büro Stengel GmbH and opened on May 23, 1999.[2] It is one of five rides at the park that form the subject of physics problems in a student workbook that won the Madrid award for teaching materials.[4]

Ride experience

When Tornado starts, the coaster exits the station and goes up a lift hill. Riders then drop 30 metres (98 ft) and reach a speed of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph) before entering the first loop, followed by the second. The coaster then goes through a corkscrew, which is one of the inversions. It then goes into 2 or 3 helices before going through the brake run, which takes riders back into the station, where the ride ends. The ride lasts 2 minutes.

Controversies

In June 2009 the ride was temporarily closed because it was so popular with teenagers that there was risk of an accident.[5] In 2011, a complaint that noise from the park exceeded legal limits singled out the Tornado as even noisier than two newer roller coasters in the same park, the Tarántula and the Abismo.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 Tornado, Atracciones, Parque de Atracciones de Madrid (in Spanish)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Duane Marden, Tornado - Parque de Atracciones de Madrid (Madrid, Madrid, Spain), Roller Coaster Database, retrieved February 3, 2013.
  3. ↑ Matteo Crepaldi, Parque de Atracciones de Madrid, The Parks.it, April 4, 2009, retrieved February 8, 2013 (in Italian)
  4. ↑ Beatriz Lucas, "Newton en el Parque de Atracciones: Las instalaciones del principal centro de ocio de Madrid se convierten en un gran laboratorio de física", El País, April 7, 2005 (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ "Quejas entre la avalancha de jóvenes que celebran el fin de curso en Parque de Atracciones tras la suspensión de una atracción", Qué!, June 22, 2009 (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ "Salvemos la Casa de Campo: el Parque de Atracciones 'burla' la norma de ruido", Noticias agencias, ABC, June 16, 2011 (in Spanish)
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