Sandon tornado

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Sandon tornado
Date of tornado:	13 November 1976
Time:
Rating of tornado:	F3 tornado
Damages:	$10.5 million (AUD)
Fatalities:	2
Area affected:	Sandon / Castlemaine

The Sandon tornado struck the township of Sandon, Victoria on 13 November, 1976. The tornado is likely to have been an F3 on the Fujita scale. It killed two people when their parked car was picked up and lifted around 9 metres off the ground and thrown 100 metres into a ditch^[1].

[edit] See also

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

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Sketch and brief information of the Sandon Tornado
• Photos of the tornado and damage
• Damage photo in the Fairfax archive (search for Sandon to find more)
• Transcripts of contemporary newspaper reports