Significant Tornado Events - Global Edition

[gregassagraf]

Never heard of this event before. The structural damage looks it is F3.

Yeah, me neither! I’m currently researching this, but it is a badly catalogued event. You hear people talking in this video as if the word tornado is a forbidden word; almost like what happened there was something out of this world.
The tornado itself carried heavy objects for great lengths. The house in the thumbnail where there are lots of damaged furniture, the fridge was found 4 km away; they found a tube TV more than a 1km away, and one of the survivors seems to indicate that he even got their clothes ripped from his body, but he is not very clear about that. This tornado leveled a small community of 4 houses.
Also, this might be one of the deadliest tornadoes in Brazil history. In the first part of the video, they show a small stadium which got destroyed and at the time of the event, there were about 450 people inside. In the comment section of that video, there are reports from locals, that hospitals in the region got overwhelmed and there were a endless amount of dead bodies.
It seems that 17 people got killed inside the stadium alone.

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

Colorized photos from San Justo 1973:

 

[gregassagraf]

Colorized photos from San Justo 1973:

Insane damage! These pictures reminds me of some of the damage seen in Bremen, Ky last year! Maybe even more violent. Just one insane storm!

 

[Casuarina Head]

Insane damage! These pictures reminds me of some of the damage seen in Bremen, Ky last year! Maybe even more violent. Just one insane storm!

San Justo may well have been South America’s equivalent of Bridge Creek or Jarrell. Intense scouring, low-level debarking, and granulation seems evident.

 

[gregassagraf]

San Justo may well have been South America’s equivalent of Bridge Creek or Jarrell. Intense scouring, low-level debarking, and granulation seems evident.

I think Jarrell is the best comparison: the tornado was o the ground for less than 7 minutes, and the conditions that they were somewhat heterodoxical in relation to a classic tornado setup. If I’m not mistaken I think this was the only tornado of that day. Also reports a the time indicate that the supercell that produced this tornado went off like a bomb.

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

I think Jarrell is the best comparison: the tornado was o the ground for less than 7 minutes, and the conditions that they were somewhat heterodoxical in relation to a classic tornado setup. If I’m not mistaken I think this was the only tornado of that day. Also reports a the time indicate that the supercell that produced this tornado went off like a bomb.

The setup was clearly a high-CAPE low-shear setup.

 

[gregassagraf]

The setup was clearly a high-CAPE low-shear setup.
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Yup. Seems like Jarrell to me. Cape over 5k (in the 1997 setup CAPE was registered over 7K), and also low shear somewhat resembles the Texas event. I wonder how the setup was like in a more localized perspective, which played a crucial role in the Jarrell tornado development.

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

Extremely impressive footage from the 2013 Brahmanbaria BD tornado.





This tornado destroyed numerous homes, debarked trees, and scoured fields. 36 people were killed.

 

[gregassagraf]

Extremely impressive footage from the 2013 Brahmanbaria BD tornado.





This tornado destroyed numerous homes, debarked trees, and scoured fields. 36 people were killed.

The tree debarking is insane!

 

[gregassagraf]

Photo of a large tornado near Sinop, Mato Grosso, Brazil, back in 2013. Due to being a sparsely populated area, not much is known about this storm. Source

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

 

[UK_EF4]

I always find it interesting seeing videos of tornadoes outside the US. I'm not sure if this is the correct reason, but general lack of awareness/tornado safety as well as lack of distinguished tornado warning system maybe leads to more willingness to film instead of getting to shelter - could be the result of all the very close range intense tornado footage we see which often occurs in Europe, South America, Asia etc, for example this tornado and the Moravia tornado in June last year.

Also that footage is crazy. The sound is unreal

 

[TH2002]

Extremely impressive footage from the 2013 Brahmanbaria BD tornado.





This tornado destroyed numerous homes, debarked trees, and scoured fields. 36 people were killed.

Apparently the Bangladesh Meteorological Department officially gave it an F2 rating but I found another source that lists it as an F0.

No... just no...

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

Apparently the Bangladesh Meteorological Department officially gave it an F2 rating but I found another source that lists it as an F0.

No... just no...

Yeah, ratings in Bangladesh are extremely inconsistent and unreliable.

 

[gregassagraf]

Watching this video from San Justo in 1965 just makes me more impressed with the 1973 tornado. It appears the city was mainly comprised of well built masonry buildings. The fact that this tornado went mowing through the city like it was made of stick is really impressive! This was definitely more intensive of a storm than the mayfield tornado, where some better built structures remained partially standing. What a storm!

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

One of the few East India/Bangladesh tornadoes to be rated F4 is the 4/19/1963 Cooch Behar IN tornado. Numerous homes were completely destroyed, paddy fields were scoured, trees were denuded and bamboo groves were uprooted, steel trunks were carried significant distances, and pieces of metal were carried 48 km. 139 people were killed in India alone while more were killed in extreme northern Bangladesh. A document about this tornado was once available online with photographs but it appears to have been lost.

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

Indonesia is not known for tornadoes but they do get quite a few each year. One of the most significant tornadoes in the nation's history is the Feb 2012 Wette'e Panca Lautang Village tornado. Poorly-built homes were completely destroyed and trees were stripped of foliage. 5 people were killed by this tornado.

 

[MNTornadoGuy]

One of the earliest examples of a tornado recorded in Bangladesh/East India happened on April 8th, 1838 near Calcutta India:

The few people in the villages who survived the tornado gave this description of it:

More information I found from this event:
"They invited us to visit the interior of the place when they said we should be better able to judge of its condition we had not proceeded far when we were convinced we had come to a hasty conclusion for about a quarter of a mile in length not a house hut nor tree had escaped the violence of the storm in fact everything that opposed its progress was levelled to the ground. Persons visiting the place ignorant of the occurrence of the storm, would suppose the mise chief as far as trees are concerned had been caused by fire ; I had almost come to the above conclusion myself on observing the stumps of trees withered leaves and here and there posts of houses &c. Such was the violence of the wind that coconut and date trees were twisted out of the ground and hurled to a distance of two or three hundred feet, granaries out of number have been swept away and life both of man and beast destroyed."

"made dreadful havoc sweeping every thing before it. Indeed with the exception of the government salt chokee and a few habitations adjoining it all Codalea has suffered more or less, some houses constructed of brick and clay have followed the general wreck, the walls have almost all crumbled into dust, large trees have been torn up by the roots some have been broken at the stumps while the small and elastic ones have escaped with only the loss of leaves and branches."

 

[Juliett Bravo Kilo]

Two impressive tornadoes from Japan:

Tsukuba, Japan – May 6, 2012



"At left, the Tsukuba tornado swept a small home completely away adjacent to a five-story apartment complex that was severely damaged. At center, the mat foundation of a destroyed home was uprooted from the ground by the tornado’s powerful updraft. At right, a tree was debarked – a damage feature rarely seen outside the United States". Quote from extremeplanet.wordpress.com




"At center right, view of a home that was swept completely away by the Tsukuba tornado. The primary damage swath was often only 20 yards wide". Quote from extremeplanet.wordpress.com

A photograph of it:




Hokkaido tornado:

"The tornado left a narrow streak of damage through a strip of buildings lining a highway. All nine deaths occurred in the destruction of a large pre-fabricated apartment building (visible at bottom left)".









One of two known photographs of the tornado:




This was thing was rated F3 but given what it did to that one building where all 9 fatalities I don't see why it shouldn't have been rated any less than F4.

Source: https://extremeplanet.wordpress.com...de-the-united-states-canada-france-and-japan/