I think more investigation is still needed to check whether this high-voltage tower damage is similar to that in Bowdle EF4 or Somky Mountain EF4. This kind of tower damage isn't the first time in China. In March 26, 1967, a violent and mysterious tornado swept suburb of Shanghai and destroyed 22 high-voltage towers. Some towers were even pulled out with 2.2m-long pile foundations.
Wasn’t that tornado apart of a large outbreak?
Based on the amount of strong tornadoes and vast rural areas in that country, one would infer that the amount of undocumented weak tornadoes occurring yearly in China is very high.
In official account, on March 26, 1967 a supercell (described as tornadic cyclone) generated 13 tornadoes in north Zhejiang Province and suburb Shanghai. There was also F3+ tornado blew down the high-voltage tower and destroy the whole village in Zhejiang. 87 were killed and hundreds were injuried.
Yep! That’s it.
I found high-resolution aerial imagery from the Hodonin tornado.
Where did you find these?
Where did you find the information about the worst damage being in Hodonin?
On the WTINFO Tornado Research page on Facebook. I translated some text below the pic of those completely debarked trees in Hodonin, and it said that damage surveyors determined that this was the area of peak intensity, and found entire groves of completely debarked trees within that vicinity. My guess as to why, is that the drill-bit phase it went though while striking Hodonin likely was able to concentrate the most intense winds down to ground level.
I wish there were close ups of the houses where those empty slabs are. It's hard to say, but it looks like they may have been leveled judging by the aerial photo I posted. Too far away to tell for sure though.Closeup aerial view of Panov:
Some cleanup has taken place
I'm not sure if it is a slab or the roof of a concrete home
Definitely slabs/subfloors. Now that I look closer, I can see the opening for the stairs leading down to the basements.
