Tornado. In Australia!

MickinMoulden · **Posted:** Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:24 am

Here's a link to our local newspaper on line of a short video (1min 13) of a Tornado here in the Top End of Australia. We also get a lot of water spouts too.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2011/03/08/216671_ntnews.html
My father used to tell me stories of the day fish fell from the skies at Lajamanu, 410km from the sea. And this has happened a few times. Hope you enjoy the vid.

wd40 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 10, 2011 11:55 am

That was nifty. It is the beginning of Tornado season here.

Are there tornadoes in the UK?

Randy

steve · **Posted:** Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:04 pm

wd40 wrote:

Are there tornadoes in the UK?

I may be making this up, but there are more tornadoes per square mile in the UK than anywhere else in the world. They don't often do much damage, though.

MickinMoulden · **Posted:** Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:42 am

MickinMoulden wrote:

Here's a link to our local newspaper on line of a short video (1min 13) of a Tornado here in the Top End of Australia. We also get a lot of water spouts too.
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2011/03/08/216671_ntnews.html
My father used to tell me stories of the day fish fell from the skies at Lajamanu, 410km from the sea. And this has happened a few times. Hope you enjoy the vid.

Sorry to quote myself, but after mentioning the fish and reading today's newspaper, I had to post this:

Quote:

THE freak phenomenon of fish raining from the sky continued with another load found bucketing down in a Territory community.

The small bait could be found en masse at the airport strip in Lajamanu - about 550km southwest of Katherine. Territory politician Rob Knight was flabbergasted to find the fish on the red soil on the edge of the Tanami Desert - hundreds of kilometres from Lake Argyle and Lake Elliot. "These fish had not long been on the ground," he said. The NT News reported on February 28 last year how Lajamanu was covered not once, but twice, by fish falling from the sky.

Local Aged Care Centre co-ordinator Christine Balmer said then she had to pinch herself when she found "hundreds".

"These fish were alive when they hit the ground," she said.

A tornado may be responsible for the phenomenon.

But Mr Knight speculated increased UFO activity in the Top End, as often reported in the NT News was behind the wacky appearance.

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2011/03/17/218561_ntnews.html

wd40 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:54 pm

Bad couple of days here in the US with 241 twisters over 14 states, killing at least 44 people. Lots of damage.

The bad weather was north of us this time.

Randy

hills · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:01 am

Far out!! That's terrible!

Gina · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:35 am

It certainly is!!

Much as we grumble about the weather here in the UK, we're lucky - we rarely get really bad weather.

captzero · **Posted:** Mon Apr 18, 2011 10:46 am

Gina wrote:

Much as we grumble about the weather here in the UK, we're lucky - we rarely get really bad weather.

I do remember watching some amazing footage of the Boscastle flood a few years ago. That was freakish.

Gina · **Posted:** Tue Apr 19, 2011 7:30 am

Yes, we do get quite extreme weather at times thought not every year like some other countries. I've seen some very heavy rain myself with side roads like rivers and water coming up through the tarmac of a main road in fountains.

wd40 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 8:53 pm

Lost 270 souls yesterday to tornadoes if I have my numbers right. It is getting confusing. Seems like 7 the day before and 80 something a couple of days before that.

I lived in Birmingham Alabama when the last bad breakout happened in the the seventies. The giant oak trees in the back saved my house although all the oak trees were lost.

Randy

hills · **Posted:** Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:12 pm

That's horrendous!!

To put it in some sort of perspective, we only lost 71 in cyclone Tracy that almost completely levelled Darwin in 1974 and 174 in the Black Saturday bushfires in Victoria in 2009, so in one day you've lost more lives than both of these events put together!!

Gina · **Posted:** Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:05 am

Absolutely ghastly

DaveNZ · **Posted:** Tue May 03, 2011 8:23 pm

There was actually a damaging tornado in north Auckland yesterday! http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/video ... _id=118344
1 person killed and several injured unfortunately. Cars thrown and buildings damaged.

wd40 · **Posted:** Tue May 03, 2011 9:34 pm

Here is one from last week. It will chill your blood. I think a couple of them were F4-F5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA7TKSHJ_wM

Orion · **Posted:** Tue May 03, 2011 9:56 pm

steve wrote:

wd40 wrote:

Are there tornadoes in the UK?

I may be making this up, but there are more tornadoes per square mile in the UK than anywhere else in the world. They don't often do much damage, though.

According to Wikipedia
The United States averages about 1,200 tornadoes per year. The Netherlands has the highest average number of recorded tornadoes per area of any country (more than 20, or 0.0013 per sq mi (0.00048 per km²), annually)followed by the UK (around 33, or 0.00035 per sq mi (0.00013 per km²), per year), but most are small and cause minor damage. In absolute number of events, ignoring area, the UK experiences more tornadoes than any other European country, excluding waterspouts.
That surprised me, think I have only ever seen one

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