Create sensitivity charts in Power BI by ranking variables vertically by bar size.

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Tornado chart — screenshot from the Microsoft Marketplace listing

What it does

Creates tornado charts, a bar chart type with vertically listed categories ordered from the largest bar to the smallest. Displays how changing one input variable at a time affects an output while other inputs remain at nominal values. Supports low and high values for each input variable. The visual is open source, with code available on GitHub.

Key capabilities

from the Microsoft Marketplace listing

Tornado chart creation

Creates bar charts with vertically listed categories ordered by bar size.

Sensitivity analysis

Shows the effect on an output of varying selected input variables one at a time.

Low-high inputs

Uses low and high values for each input variable.

Use cases

  • Compare how selected variables affect a result while other inputs stay at their initial values.
  • Present sensitivity results in a chart whose largest bars appear at the top.

How it compares

Tornado chart is a paid cloud listing updated on Aug 2026, while Box and Whisker chart and Bubble Chart by Akvelon are paid cloud listings updated in Sep 2025.

NamePricingDeploymentUpdated
Tornado chartthis pluginPaidCloud
Box and Whisker chartPaidCloud
Bubble Chart by AkvelonPaidCloud

In the catalog

51 plugins in GitHub · Analytics

Price distribution: 1 free, 2 freemium, 42 paid, 6 price not published

Pricing & deployment

Platform
Microsoft 365
Product
Power BI
Deployment
Cloud
Pricing
Paid

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What the vendor says

«Tornado charts, are a special type of Bar chart, where the data categories are listed vertically instead of the standard horizontal presentation, and the categories are ordered so that the largest bar appears at the top of the chart, the second largest appears second from the top, and so on. They are so named because …»

Official marketplace listing

Publisher
Microsoft Corporation
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