Sandon tornado

Infobox tornado single
name = Sandon tornado
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date = 13 November 1976
time =
fujitascale = F3
total damages (USD) = $10.5 million (AUD)
total fatalities = 2
area affected = Sandon / CastlemaineThe 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 [cite web |title = EMA Disasters Database |url = http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emadisasters.nsf/83edbd0553620d8cca256d09001fc8fd/9834ae0250241824ca256d3300057bbb?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,Sandon |publisher = Emergency Management Australia |accessdate = 2008-04-05] .

See also

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

References

External links

* [http://www.stormchasers.au.com/sandon.htm Sketch and brief information of the Sandon Tornado]
* [http://www.inflowimages.com/AustralianTornadicEvents/sandon.html Photos of the tornado and damage]
* [http://www.fairfaxphotos.com/business/search.php?s=1&ssim=ffxphoto-2761813 Damage photo in the Fairfax archive (search for Sandon to find more)]
* [http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/manchester/4/f/sandon.html Transcripts of contemporary newspaper reports]