Footage of tornado in Southern Brazil

[Alexandre Aguiar]

Recorded in Tubarao (state of Santa Catarina) yesterday afternoon.

The tornado later damaged ten homes and caused one injury.

http://www.metsul.com/__editor/filemanager/files/radio1/tornado_em_tubaro__16_02_08.mpg

 

[William Combes]

Nice footage....Should be rotating clockwise correct? Since it is in the southern hemisphere. I could not make out the rotation in the video.

 

[Alexandre Aguiar]

An even more impressive video:

http://mediacenter.clicrbs.com.br/templates/player.aspx?uf=1&contentID=13672&channel=41

Really, really impressive.

It is incredible as people looked at the tornado with admiration and fun and did not seek shelter. As we do not have a "meteorological culture" of severe weather people are not fully aware of the risks.

 

[Robert Rohloff]

Looks like a rural area, how many severe events or tornados might this area see on average? Still nice to see how far we have come in posting world wide.

 

[Alexandre Aguiar]

There is no reliable climatological record for tornadoes in this area, but a tornado struck the urban area of the same city last March.

 

[Alexandre Aguiar]

Nice sequence of photos of this event:

 

[Ernani Nascimento]

Thanks for posting, Alexandre!
Any "proximity sounding" available?

 

[Alexandre Aguiar]

SBFL - 12Z Saturday

Our meteorologist Luiz Fernando Nachtigall bloggued hours before the event about the sounding of Florianopolis poiting to severe weather in the eastern side of Santa Catarina.

 

[Ernani Nascimento]

Thanks!
Maybe the SBFL 12Z sounding is too early (if the tornado occurred during the mid or late afternoon), but we can check its hodograph for any hint of a favorable environment in terms of wind shear.
Keep the nice coverage.

 

[Alexandre Aguiar]

It was more unstable at 12Z than at 00Z, according to the soundings available. I am sure this the most ever documented tornado ever here.