Literally, in order for a vortex to be classified as a tornado, it must be in contact with the ground and the cloud base. Weather scientists haven't found it so simple in practice, however, to classify and define tornadoes (per this essay by Doswell).
Bikini Island, 2015. Credit: Emlyn Hughes. (Phys.org)âA team of researchers from Columbia University in New York has found that all of the Marshall Islands involved in nuclear tests by the U.S. are now habitable, except for Bikini Atoll.
In the Employee of the Month computer game, a fish mentions that Bikini Bottom is located in the Pacific Ocean. In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, when SpongeBob was singing the Goofy Goober Rock, the camera rose out of the water into outer space. When it did, it came out of the Pacific Ocean.