Bulahdelah tornado

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Bulahdelah Tornado
Date of tornado: 1 January 1970
Time:
Rating of tornado: F? tornado
Damages: Unknown
Fatalities: None
Area affected: Bulahdelah

The Bulahdelah Tornado was an intense tornado which passed near the town of Bulahdelah (98 kilometres (61 mi) by road north-northeast of Newcastle), New South Wales on 1 January, 1970, and was the most destructive tornado ever reported in Australia. It is thought to be least F4 or F5 on the Fujita scale however no official rating has been made public[1][2].

The tornado left a damage path 21 kilometres (13 mi) long and 1–1.6 km (0.6–1 mi) wide through the Bulahdelah State Forest. According to reports, it threw a two ton tractor 100 m (328 ft) through the air, depositing it upside down. It is estimated that the tornado destroyed over one million trees[3]. The weather system that produced the tornado was a classic setup for violent tornadoes, something somewhat rarely seen outside of the United States, Canada, Bangladesh, and adjacent areas of India.

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  1. ^ Tornadoes of Australia and New Zealand. The Weather Doctor. Retrieved on 2008-04-05.
  2. ^ 23 September 2003: Australian thunderstorm climatology. Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved on 2008-04-05.
  3. ^ Observing tornadoes, dust devils, whirl winds, water spouts and land spouts. Australian Severe Weather. Retrieved on 2008-04-05.


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