Y'know, recently I've been thinking that most of the whirlwinds out there kinda suck. They usually have fat black outlines that don't seem very wind-like.

Minish Cap has some pretty good wind effects, though, so I looked into it. Its smallest whirlwind was still bigger than 16x16, but it responded well to some resizing and editing. Hopefully you will find it appealing.

I've included the original, bigger whirlwind in case you have a use for it. It's technically smaller than 32x32, but it's centered across four combos in a square. You might be able to use it in combos for a dungeon or something. The shrunken whirlwind ought to work nicely as a whistle-warping sprite.

By the way, fun tip: these whirlwinds spin clockwise. if you want one to spin counterclockwise, just flip it horizontally.

DIRECTIONS:

Uses 6 animation frames. I recommend an animation speed of 3.

For those of you using 2.11 and up, I've included the "A. Skip" version of the big whirlwind, which take up the bottom two rows. If you use them, assign the combos an "A.Skip X" value of 1.

Colored for DoR CSet 7, but since it only requires three shades of white/grey (and I'm starting to sound like a broken record when I say this) it could easily be recolored into any tileset.

Nintendo for The Minish Cap.
Paintshop for being on my comp.