Bucca tornado

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Bucca tornado
Date of tornado:	29 November 1992
Time:	2:30pm EST
Rating of tornado:	F4 tornado
Damages:	Unknown
Fatalities:	None
Area affected:	Bucca

The Bucca tornado was one of the most violent tornadoes ever observed in Australia, rated F4 on the Fujita scale^[1]. It occurred near the township of Bucca (near Bundaberg) in Queensland on 29 November, 1992 at around 2:30pm. The tornado was accompanied by cricket-ball sized hail. It damaged or destroyed nine houses.

The weather system that spawned the Bucca tornado was also responsible for an F3 tornado at Oakhurst.

[edit] See also

• List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of Southern Hemisphere tornadoes and tornado outbreaks

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Reports and photographs of the Bucca and Oakhurst tornadoes