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Significant Tornado Events - Global Edition

Central Ohio Wx said:
It’s more likely debris craters from something being rolled.
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Yeah on second glance I think you’re right. There’s clearly quite a bit of clear pock marking visible from debris impacts. I’d say likely multiple objects being thrown, and probably bounced along the ground, as I see multiple linear paths of impact marks.
 
buckeye05 said:
Big ask, but would anyone be willing to post a full list of the tornadoes and their ratings from this outbreak? It’s unfortunate that South America doesn’t have an easy to navigate public tornado database like the US, Canada, and Europe.

Edit: Actually never mind, it looks like there is one based on posts from earlier. Gonna have to look into that.
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https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_tornados_no_Brasil_(2025-)# this wikipedia article lists all tornadoes in Brazil from 2025 onwards, there is also another for 1800-2024.
 
buckeye05 said:
Big ask, but would anyone be willing to post a full list of the tornadoes and their ratings from this outbreak? It’s unfortunate that South America doesn’t have an easy to navigate public tornado database like the US, Canada, and Europe.

Edit: Actually never mind, it looks like there is one based on posts from earlier. Gonna have to look into that.
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In general, the Civil Defense agencies of each Brazilian state conduct damage assessments, but most of these studies are quite poor since they have little experience dealing with tornadoes.

More recently, a group of meteorologists connected to Brazilian universities started a project to catalog and document tornadoes, but it’s still in a very early stage. What the team does is post daily forecasts and then update the reports as new information comes in.

https://x.com/prevots_svr
 


Video of the Rio Bonito tornado. Large rain-wrapped wedge as one would expect given the radar signature and width of the damage path.
 
andyhb said:


Video of the Rio Bonito tornado. Large rain-wrapped wedge as one would expect given the radar signature and width of the damage path.
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Note that I’ve geolocated where this video was taken (Highway 158 SW of town as it was entering town driving NE) and can confirm this is a real video, since I’ve seen several AI “images” of the funnel.
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Central Ohio Wx said:
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Pretty sure Vitor works with PREVOTs. They’re basically saying that the F4 rating itself is completely justified but they’re also looking at other damage for a potential upgrade.
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I’m very curious about the specifics of the “extreme damage” that was found. If we get another F5/EF5 rating this year I’m gonna be absolutely floored. This would be the first in South America since San Justo 1973.

Also some more impressive damage, including a wooden projectile embedded in a tree trunk:
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The fatality to injury ratio with this one is pretty unorthodox. 5 (1 indirect) fatalities and over 800 injuries. Wonder if the sturdier construction prevented a larger number of deaths. The highest end damage also seemed somewhat sporadic in town and likely tied to multiple vortices.
 
Additionally curious to what the "extreme damage" refers to. If they're implying what i think they are (regarding higher end intensity and even rating consideration?) I'm gonna be wowzered. Some of the damage haven't FULLY came out yet despite the F4 rating so we will see
 
buckeye05 said:
I’m very curious about the specifics of the “extreme damage” that was found. If we get another F5/EF5 rating this year I’m gonna be absolutely floored. This would be the first in South America since San Justo 1973.
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Radar data indicated that the supercell that caused the Rio Bonito do Iguaçu tornado recycled after traveling at least about 70 km and produced another intense tornado that struck the rural area of Guarapuava, killing one person. This tornado has been preliminarily rated as an F3. I believe they are currently surveying the rural areas, and stronger damage might be found there. My suspicion is that this second tornado could potentially be upgraded to an F4. Overall, all the local news outlets are focusing only on the city itself, and there are no images yet from the rural zones affected by the tornado.


 
andyhb said:
The fatality to injury ratio with this one is pretty unorthodox. 5 (1 indirect) fatalities and over 800 injuries. Wonder if the sturdier construction prevented a larger number of deaths. The highest end damage also seemed somewhat sporadic in town and likely tied to multiple vortices.
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The number of victims wasn’t higher because classes had ended for that period about 30 minutes before the tornado, and the church it destroyed was supposed to start a service at 6:30 p.m. (the tornado hit the town around 6 p.m.). So most of the population was inside their homes. There are reports of people being thrown several meters and cars with occupants that flipped over, yet those inside sustained almost no injuries.

 
buckeye05 said:
MetSul reports that the death toll has risen to 9 unfortunately.
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Can anyone verify the accuracy of this? MetSul posted the death toll update on X today, but I’m unclear on if it’s the overall outbreak total, includes non-tornado fatalities, or is just from the Rio Bonito tornado itself.
 
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