--- --- # Watch This Science Kid Show You How to Create a Tornado in a Jar by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 1, 2016 5:04 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jul 1, 2016 5:04 PM UTC Devoted [budding](http://time.com/4328353/kids-brains-moms-voice/?iid=sr-link5) scientist Oliver is here to show you how he whips up a small tornado in a jar at home. In a [video](http://time.com/4390031/daniel-radcliffe-harry-potter-kids-interview/?iid=sr-link1) that’s getting traction on Reddit, he creates a tornado out of a few regular household items, but his delivery is more endlessly entertaining than watching the tornado form. Oliver has really intense, entirely adorable feelings about the scientific facts. “Tornadoes dance, that’s how they destroy stuff,” he warns. He makes tornadoes in jars look so easy, and his shirt may just be a regular shirt, but it’s probably a lab coat, so he’s a mad scientist. This is the first episode of “Oliver’s Science Lab,” and it includes a brief overview of the Fujita scale that you need. Watch below. Kid Creates Tornado in a Jar: Watch Video ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4391045/oliver-science-kid-tornado-jar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4391045/oliver-science-kid-tornado-jar/"},"headline":"Watch This Science Kid Show You How to Create a Tornado in a Jar","datePublished":"2016-07-01T17:04:34.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:59.566Z","description":"He’s a mad scientist","url":"https://time.com/4391045/oliver-science-kid-tornado-jar/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","viral","Science topic","Funny"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4391045/oliver-science-kid-tornado-jar/","name":"Watch This Science Kid Show You How to Create a Tornado in a Jar"}}]}] ```