Significant Tornado Events - Global Edition

[buckeye05]

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EF2+ tornado along with large hails in Guangzhou, China today.

Five deaths unfortunately from that one. China has had more tornado deaths than the US so far this year.

 

[TH2002]

A little over a week ago I added a Mosin-Nagant to my gun collection. Mine was made in 1938 in Izhevsk, Russia (then part of the Soviet Union). But something is missing...

Oh, here we go:

 

[gregassagraf]

Tornado in Rio Grande do Sul yesterday:

 

[A Guy]

It appears to me that the Bureau of Meteorology is no longer cataloguing tornado reports in Australia, with no entries in the severe storms archive since 2019.

 

[buckeye05]

It appears to me that the Bureau of Meteorology is no longer cataloguing tornado reports in Australia, with no entries in the severe storms archive since 2019.

That’s a real shame. I noticed they no longer seem interested in rating them either. Why??

 

[A Guy]

That’s a real shame. I noticed they no longer seem interested in rating them either. Why??

Dunno. They've never really solicited reports but I wouldn't have though collecting them would pose much budgetary strain. Inspecting and rating would take more, and maybe they just have different priorities.

The lack of surveying and rating is really problematic because there are quite significant events being missed, among them one near Bathurst a couple of years ago that was one of the best looking tornadoes I've ever seen here and news reports said tracked more than 20 km, and a possible one (might have been microbursts) that mowed down a huge number of trees on the Gold Coast last December. Studying these events would help better understand how they occur here, so it's a big miss.

 

[buckeye05]

Dunno. They've never really solicited reports but I wouldn't have though collecting them would pose much budgetary strain. Inspecting and rating would take more, and maybe they just have different priorities.

The lack of surveying and rating is really problematic because there are quite significant events being missed, among them one near Bathurst a couple of years ago that was one of the best looking tornadoes I've ever seen here and news reports said tracked more than 20 km, and a possible one (might have been microbursts) that mowed down a huge number of trees on the Gold Coast last December. Studying these events would help better understand how they occur here, so it's a big miss.

I remember both of those! Based on the damage they left behind, I’d say they were strong/significant.

There was also the Armidale tornado, which produced some pretty significant house damage in town, and really impressive tree damage outside of town.

It’s just a real shame they aren’t being properly surveyed, documented, and rated.

 

[A Guy]

I remember both of those! Based on the damage they left behind, I’d say they were strong/significant.

There was also the Armidale tornado, which produced some pretty significant house damage in town, and really impressive tree damage outside of town.

It’s just a real shame they aren’t being properly surveyed, documented, and rated.

Well I wouldn't be surprised if the Armidale one would only rate as an F1 on damage.

I'd be careful with tree damage here. In my experience Eucalypts often topple easily. It'd take an expert to see if this is a real pattern and what the factors might be (tree and root structure. tree age, health and isolation, soil conditions and moisture etc). But I would be reticent to say the same patterns that apply in North America would necessarily apply here.