Significant Tornado Events - Global Edition

[Ivanthetornadoenthusiast]

Textbook windrowing from the November 7th, 2006 Saroma F3 tornado

 

[Sawmaster]

Found a new-to-me YT channel with this:

 

[SpotlightForRareTornadoes]

That's the same guy who made this

 

[TH2002]

On May 26, 2011 a tornado touched down in Reynosa, Mexico, causing some light damage and creating a very impressive sight as it passed very close to a PEMEX plant. Despite it being obviously connected to a cloud base and thus a true tornado, the event was misclassified as a dust devil by the Directorate-General for Civil Protection of Mexico.

 

[Ivanthetornadoenthusiast]

the event was misclassified as a dust devil by the Directorate-General for Civil Protection of Mexico.

Source?

 

[TH2002]

Source?

No fue tornado, fue un “diablo de polvo”

* Explican fenómeno captado en video en el Complejo Procesador de Gas Burgos

laprensa.mx

 

[A Guy]

Seems there was a tornado near Mansfield in Victoria on 25 August. 25 km path and 400 m width is not bad for here.

Footage shows fleeing kangaroos, garage doors 'imploding' as BOM confirms tornado passed through Victoria

Garage doors blast open and tree branches become projectiles in footage which captures a tornado slicing through Victoria's High Country in August.

www.abc.net.au

 

[SpotlightForRareTornadoes]

 

[TH2002]

Came across an album of damage photos from the 7/31/2011 Blagoveshchensk, Russia tornado. Some of these are fairly impressive and potentially put the tornado more solidly into the F2 category than I initially thought:

Incredible footage of the thing, particularly the third clip:

 

[Sawmaster]

охует!!!

 

[TornadoFan]

Wow, can't say I've seen this footage of the Bridge Creek-OKC tornado before. Look at how fast it wedges out.

 

[TornadoGénesisX_1995]

I am writing from Spain to report on one of the most chaotic episodes I have seen in the last 10 years. An extremely violent mesoscale convective system has produced at least four confirmed tornadoes. (Some official sources say 6). These tornadoes have occurred in a context of very high helicity and shear at low levels, and the convective system responsible has generated precipitation exceeding 400mm in large areas of Valencia.

 

[TornadoGénesisX_1995]

The convective system responsible has been brutal, generating rainfall above 300mm in more than 50km around.
It has reached 23km echotops, something common in the US or the tropics, but not in Europe!

 

[TornadoGénesisX_1995]

The tornadoes formed under unbeatable shear and helicity conditions!
The floods in Valencia have been extreme, 108 dead, 234 missing and 440 injured are reported.






https://x.com/Cesarsvlla/status/1851370736222404824

 

[TornadoGénesisX_1995]

This is the aftermath in Valencia city. The floods are even visible at NOAA satellite, you can see the foolds pushing through the sea.

 

[TornadoGénesisX_1995]

The damage is extreme.

 

[TornadoGénesisX_1995]

In Canyapar had been registered 630 litres/m2, and in some localities it rained with more than 400litres/m2, we coulde talking about the worst floodins in Europe in the last decade. The death toll scales to 110 and surely will keep increasing.
In the locality of Paiporta 45 persons perished. A woman saw a 5 years old girl die, a family found his fathers bodies dead in the center of the town, a boy is reporting that his father and mother in law died and two cops died next to the police station trying to save a women and her dog.
Turia riverhad a flow of 3900m3/sec in Valencia. In nearby towns, the flow reached 4500m3/sec.

 

[TornadoesUK]

Rare(ish) tornado in Taiwan during Typhoon Kongrey.

 

[TornadoesUK]

OTD 1 year ago, the island of Jersey would experience its worst tornado in its entire history. The T6/IF3 tornado would damage many homes in the dead of night along an 8km path of destruction. The tornado first struck beachfront areas of St Clement causing severe structural damage to several buildings. The damage here was generally up to T4/low-end IF2 intensity, but 1 house had its entire roof and several walls torn away, earning a rating of T5 on the TORRO scale, and IF3 on the IF Scale. A table tennis centre would also have parts of its roof torn away. The beams which were apart of the roof of the centre, penetrated several gardens to the northeast. TORRO awarded a T6 rating to the throw of the beams. A house nearby also had an internal wall collapse (no exterior walls collapsed and the roof wasn't torn off so it was likely some sort of weakness from when the wind blew in threw a smashed window of the house).


The tornado then struck the edge of an industrial estate at T5/High-end IF2 intensity. Two buildings here sustained structural damage to their roof and one of them had exterior walls collapsed. After leaving the industrial estate, the tornado struck a few houses at T3/IF1.5 intensity, damaging some roofs

Afterwards, several other small villages and locations were hit including Le Boulivot, La Route de la Hougue Blie and Rue Saint-Julien. In Le Boulivot, a single story home along with a brick carport sustained complete collapse on its southern end, earning a rating of high-end T6/~mid end IF3. This was the most intense damage to a structure the tornado did. A car that was parked next to the house was thrown/rolled around 20 metres to the east. In La Route de la Hougue Blie, damage to structures wasn't that extreme, reaching an intensity of around T3/IF1.5. But the TORRO surveyor noted some embedded debris in buildings which would qualify for T6. At Rue Saint-Julien, T5 damage occurred to a farm including a barn that had its entire roof collapse in and part of its wall structure collapse. A roof was lifted slightly off of a house causing cracks along internal walls.

Just to the northeast, the tornado destroyed at least 7 campervans at Beauvelande Campsite. Luckily no one was in the campers as it was November. Two utility poles came down next to the campsite. Damage here was rated T5/IF2.


In Fliquet a row of cottages had their entire roof removed, some pieces of roof penetrated the roof of another house nearby earning a rating of T6. The cottages themselves earned a rating of T5. An elderly couple who lived at the cottage had to be taken to hospital after debris filled their bedroom, trapping the husband who I believe had to be resuscitated in hospital. The tornado then tracked through woodlands causing many trees to become uprooted and snapped before exiting the island at around 00:01 on 2 November.

In the end, over 150 people were displaced, several homes were destroyed and many more were damaged. The TORRO Site Investigator who surveyed the tornado has revisited the island for the 1 year anniversary. She has found that many homes are still uninhabitable and streets are lined with scaffolding.

 

[TH2002]

OTD 1 year ago, the island of Jersey would experience its worst tornado in its entire history. The T6/IF3 tornado would damage many homes in the dead of night along an 8km path of destruction. The tornado first struck beachfront areas of St Clement causing severe structural damage to several buildings. The damage here was generally up to T4/low-end IF2 intensity, but 1 house had its entire roof and several walls torn away, earning a rating of T5 on the TORRO scale, and IF3 on the IF Scale. A table tennis centre would also have parts of its roof torn away. The beams which were apart of the roof of the centre, penetrated several gardens to the northeast. TORRO awarded a T6 rating to the throw of the beams. A house nearby also had an internal wall collapse (no exterior walls collapsed and the roof wasn't torn off so it was likely some sort of weakness from when the wind blew in threw a smashed window of the house).
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The tornado then struck the edge of an industrial estate at T5/High-end IF2 intensity. Two buildings here sustained structural damage to their roof and one of them had exterior walls collapsed. After leaving the industrial estate, the tornado struck a few houses at T3/IF1.5 intensity, damaging some roofs
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Afterwards, several other small villages and locations were hit including Le Boulivot, La Route de la Hougue Blie and Rue Saint-Julien. In Le Boulivot, a single story home along with a brick carport sustained complete collapse on its southern end, earning a rating of high-end T6/~mid end IF3. This was the most intense damage to a structure the tornado did. A car that was parked next to the house was thrown/rolled around 20 metres to the east. In La Route de la Hougue Blie, damage to structures wasn't that extreme, reaching an intensity of around T3/IF1.5. But the TORRO surveyor noted some embedded debris in buildings which would qualify for T6. At Rue Saint-Julien, T5 damage occurred to a farm including a barn that had its entire roof collapse in and part of its wall structure collapse. A roof was lifted slightly off of a house causing cracks along internal walls.
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Just to the northeast, the tornado destroyed at least 7 campervans at Beauvelande Campsite. Luckily no one was in the campers as it was November. Two utility poles came down next to the campsite. Damage here was rated T5/IF2.
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In Fliquet a row of cottages had their entire roof removed, some pieces of roof penetrated the roof of another house nearby earning a rating of T6. The cottages themselves earned a rating of T5. An elderly couple who lived at the cottage had to be taken to hospital after debris filled their bedroom, trapping the husband who I believe had to be resuscitated in hospital. The tornado then tracked through woodlands causing many trees to become uprooted and snapped before exiting the island at around 00:01 on 2 November.
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In the end, over 150 people were displaced, several homes were destroyed and many more were damaged. The TORRO Site Investigator who surveyed the tornado has revisited the island for the 1 year anniversary. She has found that many homes are still uninhabitable and streets are lined with scaffolding.

Higher quality shot of the T6/IF3 home:

Also, question: are you aware of any footage of this tornado? I know it struck after dark, so there isn't much to be found.