Australian Severe Weather Forum

Just as a few samples from history of significant tornadic events, here are some spectacular tornado footage. Feel free to post more spectacular or significant tornado videos.

Andover Kansas April 26 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAmKvxIEY20


McConnell Air Force Base  April 26 1991

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPe0qbXBNlk&feature=related

May 3 Tornado Moore F5 tornado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pbqGsS5iB4&NR=1

And who can forget Laverne Oklahoma tornado

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmaRfFI3GUQ&feature=related

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

Great thread!

May 3 1999, Fort Cobb, OK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waMMMo-rAns

And this multiple vortex BEAST, Stratford, TX, May 15 2003
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG_wmyoUjBc

From Manitoba, June 23 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEUXr6FMtWk
Mind blowing!

I've moved those YouTube videos of Australian tornadoes to another thread in general weather as they did not really belong in this one.

MB

Here is another interesting YouTube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqqCESro-rc

27th May 2001  Northern Oklahoma  Derecho

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

Jimmy

That is one enormous gust front. Hate to be under that one as it come through. Might end up a piece of debris. (lol)

Big Pete

Pete,

I will try remaining on topic with little deviation from the videos that will be posted in this thread so continue all to post more videos.

In regards to this event, the winds were of the order of 160 to 170 kilometres per hour in some regions - a woman was killed in the town that we stayed at that night after we were hammered by violent winds ourselves. Sme vehicles that parked near a gravel piled realised how winds can utilise the gravel to damage your windows!

Back to the videos - I may post links to the lightning and shelf cloud associated with our view of this event.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

Here is another video:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=vo5Q48nV8SI

I think this one is from Happy Texas 5th May 2002

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

Apparently this one was on 16 Feb this year in Brazil - another hot spot for tornado activity - fantastic stove pipe!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qdCiOL7EOko

Hi Mike,

That is a nice great coloured tornado and nice elephant trunk tornado. There is another tornado video that looks much like the Dunoon tornado with white vapour vorticies and up motion though it is much more separated from the precipitation.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Nm8cL6WUFtg&feature=related


Check out this tornado for close comfort

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvqd55LyJDk


And the news report shows some nice multi-vortex action:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-6forL6Tocc&feature=related


Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

Hi,

And whilst we are on the concept of tornadoes, how about we check May 29 2004 tornadoes - now they were in some cases long lived and violent a swell as the storm in southern Kansas being a multiple tornado producer. This one goes for a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJvgKCTIZ1Y

And this one really shows violent rotation that is only observed when you have a serious tornado imminent! Just watch the rotation in this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdO5MAtMbPM&feature=related

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

I know its not a tornado, but i thought it was worth a mention.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I0gCcE4qVeE

I love his reaction when the storms hits.

Unless I missed something, I don't think anybody's posted this in here before!

On February 16, 2008, a tornado struck the town of Tubarao in southern Brazil just south of the major city of Florianopolis, which is at about the same latitude as Brisbane. It caused some severe damage to homes and buildings, apparently probably equivalent to EF-1/EF-2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

Nice Youtube vid of the tornado in action. Note how lightning active the supercell was.
http://www.youtube.com/v/qdCiOL7EOko

Another video of the tornado. With those subtropical green hills and farmland and if it weren't for the fact that Brazilians drive on the right side, this could've easily been a scene right out of SE QLD or NE NSW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9POUOEVeMG0

Newsclip about the tornado. Although it's in Portuguese, I've decided to still post this, for at 00:27, you can see the damage caused by the tornado,and at 00:35, there is a condensation/debris cloud near ground level which resembles somewhat the Dunoon, NSW tornado on Oct. 26, 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/v/JzrxLpWPOSo

These three pics and two radar images below are from Tornado World (http://www.metsul.com/blog/?cod_blog=3), a Brazilian weather blog site. Note the clear slot behind the tornado and a CG in the middle pic. The radar images both appear to indicate that the parent storm was a supercell typical of what you would expect in the Southern Hemisphere.

The second oldest tornado footage. Read the description (on youtube site --> youtube.com/watch?v=VUKRlYcDvbQ&feature=related) for more info.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VUKRlYcDvbQ&feature=related

Check out this video amazing how the tornado sits in the one area for so long!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScKKYV8u6E

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lpLYDm3ji7o

A short video montage set to 'Humans Being" by Van Halen. Filmed and produced by Justin Teague www.stormguy.com Dave Crowley/Justin Teague