This is not really a bug and more of a bummer when trying to view faraway tornadoes.

The cloud view distance is basically the same as the block view distance. I (and others), whenever I want to view a tornado from a "real life" safe distance have to turn the render distance up to 20.

It would be cool if we could set the particle render distance of clouds and tornadoes, then, we don't have to put too much pressure on computers.