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Shenzhen, China tornado: 27 March 2006: Longgang and Pingshan districts, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China: 5 fatalities, 12 injuries [34] Anhui, China tornado: 29 June 2006: Sixian County, Anhui Province China: 3 fatalities, 46 injuries: Deaths from the collapse of a school roof on students. [35] [36] Southeast China tornado: 3 July 2007
Each year, more than 2,000 tornadoes are recorded worldwide, with the vast majority occurring in North America and Europe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] To assess the intensity of these events, meteorologist Ted Fujita devised a method to estimate maximum wind speeds within tornadic storms based on the damage caused; this became known as the Fujita scale .
United States tornadoes by year [1] [2] Year Number of tornadoes FU/EFU F0/EF0 F1/EF1 F2/EF2 F3/EF3 ... Toggle the table of contents. List of tornado events by year.
In the 2010s decade, 72 tornadoes were rated F4/EF4. 59 of these occurred in the United States, five occurred in China, with one occurring in each Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Italy, Russia, and South Africa for a total of 12 F4/EF4 tornadoes outside of the United States. 70 tornadoes were rated EF4 with Italy's and South Africa's only violent tornadoes during the decade being rated F4
List of tornado outbreaks by outbreak intensity score; List of tornado events by year; List of tornadoes striking downtown areas of large cities; List of F5, EF5, and IF5 tornadoes; List of F4, EF4, and IF4 tornadoes; List of F4 tornadoes (1950–1959) List of F4 tornadoes (1960–1969) List of F4 and EF4 tornadoes (2000–2009)
Three visually stunning tornadoes have struck China over the last week, part of a series of natural disasters in the sprawling country of more than 1.4 billion people. The latest tornado to be ...
The UK has the most annual tornadoes per land area per year, 0.14 per 1000 km 2 (although these tornadoes are generally weak), and other European countries have a similar number of tornadoes per area. [37] One notable tornado of recent years was the tornado that struck Birmingham, United Kingdom, in July 2005. A row of houses was destroyed, but ...
From 2010 through May of this year, an average of almost 32 tornadoes a year touched down in Ohio. From 1960 through 2009, the average was 16. So far this year, 62 tornadoes have struck Ohio ...