2003 Bendigo tornado

2003 Bendigo tornado

The 2003 Bendigo tornado was a Fujita scale category F2 tornado which hit the city of Bendigo, Victoria, Australia about 6.30 pm on May 13th 2003. The main areas hit were the city's northern suburbs of Eaglehawk and California Gully which had severe damage and power outages. There was flash flooding and minor damage across other suburbs of the city and other parts of central Victoria experienced power outages.

Several houses had their roofs blown off and up to 50 others were damaged. Wind speeds ranged from 130km/h to a maximum of 150km/h at the core of the storm. [cite web
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* Photos: [http://www.stormchasers.au.com/18_05_03.htm StormChasters]


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