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An intense tornado, which occurred near the town of Bulahdelah (100 kilometres (62.1 mi) north-northeast of Newcastle ), New South Wales on 1 January 1970, is thought to be the most destructive tornado ever documented in Australia. [4] It is thought to have reached F4 or F5 intensity on the Fujita scale, however, no official rating has been ...
Fatal United States tornadoes in 1971. Numbers for 1971 were above average for the 1950–1970 period, having a total of 889 confirmed tornadoes. Several very deadly tornadoes occurred, bringing the death total up to 159 people for the yearly total. Over 2700 people were injured by the end of 1971.
Tornado outbreak of January 21–23, 1999: January 21–23, 1999: Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi: 127: 9 fatalities: Largest January outbreak on record. An F3 tornado passed near downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, killing three. A tornado rated F3 devastated Beebe, Arkansas, killing two. Other strong tornadoes struck Tennessee and ...
Portions of Lubbock, Texas, were struck by a powerful multiple-vortex tornado after nightfall on May 11, 1970, resulting in 26 fatalities and an estimated $250 million in damage (equivalent to $1.96 billion in 2023). It was in its time the costliest tornado in U.S. history, damaging nearly 9,000 homes and inflicting widespread damage to ...
From Sunday to Monday, February 21–22, 1971, a devastating tornado outbreak, colloquially known as the Mississippi Delta outbreak, struck portions of the Lower Mississippi and Ohio River valleys in the Southern and Midwestern United States. The outbreak generated strong tornadoes from Texas to Ohio and North Carolina.
0–9. Tornado outbreak sequence of April 17–19, 1970. Tornado outbreak sequence of June 10–16, 1970. Template:1970 tornado outbreaks.
There is a long history of destructive tornadoes in the St. Louis metropolitan area. The third-deadliest, and the costliest in United States history, the 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado, injured more than one thousand people and caused at least 255 fatalities in the City of St. Louis and in East St. Louis.
The Bulahdelah Tornado was an intense tornado which occurred near the town of Bulahdelah (100 kilometres (62.1 mi) north-northeast of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia on 1 January 1970, and is thought to be the most destructive tornado ever documented in Australia, [ 1] however, no official rating has been made public. [ 2][ 3] The tornado ...