Has anyone in australia seen a tornado?

Question

has anyone seen a tornado in australia ?

Answer 1

Nope can't get them here only cyclones here and major wind surfing.

Answer 2

My name is Jimmy Deguara. I saw a real tornado last year near Dunoon NSW. Check the footage on YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SD_OzpQa...

Or try my website    http://www.australiasevereweather.com  and check the tornado section! It was increible - the best ever footage I have ever seen so close - within 100metres of my vehicle. I have seen 39 other tornadoes up until that point but this one is a rare special.

Please understand the different between the tornado which is a localised circulation from storms or clouds as comparied to tropical cyclones which is a mass of wind and rain around a 500km to 100km circulation. These are less intense than tornadoes but last longer and cause more widespread damage.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

Answer 3

i don't live in Australia.. but i think the point of your question is has it ever a tornado happened in Australia..

so i've been searching some information and look what i've got:

-. The Bucca (Queensland) tornado, 29 November 1992. The only F4  tornado (fujita rating) so far officially reported in Australia. it happened in Bucca west of Bundaberg

others are:

-. The afternoon of 2 February 1918 in Victoria about 4.50 pm, the so-called "Brighton cyclone" struck: apparently two separate tornadoes, followed about five minutes later by a third, hit the bayside suburb with great destruction.

-. Early on 6 April 1960, a particularly violent tornado formed on a trough line ahead of a major cold front and swept through jarrah forest near Collie, cutting a path 32km long and 240 metres wide

-. A similar tornado in northwest Tasmania left a swathe of snapped trees in forest country near Smithton early on 22 November 1992.

-. On the afternoon of 4 November 1973, intense thunderstorms built up west of Brisbane.

-. Southern Queensland was one of  the site of perhaps Australia’s deadliest tornado, with three people killed at Kin Kin (a small community between Gympie and Noosa) on 14 August 1971.

@ banks.. blame my references then.. and blame your government Bureau of Meteorology to.. they said so.. i just give the information..

Answer 4

Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin in 1976. They get the odd cyclone off the north coast of Australia. I think the person above is confusing bad weather with cyclones!!!!! I live in Sydney so we don't get cyclones but with global warming........who knows?

Answer 5

No. Australians are usually too drunk to notice something like that. And they're usually not in Australia.