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tetzahuatl.

Headword: 
tetzahuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a prodigious, swirling river, or a marvel; sometimes also apparently a tornado (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

See a hieroglyph for the personal name Tetzauh in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020–present. https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/tetzauh-mh592r

Frances Krug captures five examples of references in the annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley to a tornado (mixpantli) that raced across the sky in 1525, 1526, and/or 1544. In one record, tetzauh seems to be used in a parallel construction. See also mixpantli and tetzahuitl. (SW)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 40, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart..

a prodigious, swirling river, or a marvel
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, folio 225r, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/225r/images/0a8c15a8-8c7...

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)
Water
Weather, Climate
See also: 
tetzahuitl.
mixpantli.