A tornado ripped through a holiday village today, destroying chalets and caravans and leaving scenes of ‘absolute carnage’, and the extreme weather is set to continue into the weekend. Gusts of up to 95mph were recorded close to flattened chalets in Clarach Bay, near Aberystwyth, west Wales, while houses nearby had their roofs ripped off.…
Airport staircase slams into Qantas plane as ‘mini tornado’ batters Queensland bringing the strongest winds in 30 years
A ‘mini-tornado’ ripped through parts of Queensland on Sunday bringing the strongest winds in more than 30 years. Three planes were damaged at Brisbane Airport as cyclone-strength gusts of 160km/h sent sets of stairs and a water tank flying across the tarmac. Dozens of flights were also delayed or diverted after the runway lights lost…
Hurricane Matthew laces into Myrtle Beach area; tornado damages homes
Hurricane Matthew laced into the Myrtle Beach area Saturday afternoon, destroying a pier, flooding streets, forcing hundreds into shelters and triggering a tornado that damaged homes. A tornado that began swirling offshore in North Myrtle Beach as a water spout touched down in North Myrtle Beach between 18th Avenue North and Ocean Boulevard Saturday morning.…
30 Year Anniversary of the Cranston/Providence Tornado
The strongest tornado on record in Rhode Island hit a densely populated area of the state on this date back in 1986. That tornado was one of three to hit Rhode Island in a two-day span. The most powerful of the three hit in the late afternoon of August 7, 1986. Around 5:15PM, a tornado…
