3. yes, it still charges (i just tested)
What Hawt Salsa said is wrong; my information on the tornado is below. To highlight the directly relevant part:
Finishing the tornado in the air (but not interupting it consumes the charge.
Dapplegonger, since me and Hawt Salsa both tested this and we both think ourselves to be correct, you should just test this yourself; it doesn't take very long.
1) Go into training or versus mode on a stage with sufficiently high platforms that you can jump off and not touch the ground or die before a tornado finishes.
2) Jump high off the stage and use the tornado, fall to your death to make sure you don't have a charge. Make sure the tornado is completed before you die.
3) Stand by the edge of the stage and start to tornado, the move off the edge before the tornado is finished. Fall to your death.
4) Jump in the air and try to rise (you might want to use training mode so you can play at reduced speed).
If you can't rise, then the tornado is not charged when you finish it while in the air even if you start it on the ground.
I'm guessing that when he tested this, Hawt Salsa died before the tornado finished, causing the charge to not be lost.
