A powerful cold front slammed Perth early monday morning spawning 2 noticeable tornadoes and possibly a third. The BoM even said there could have been up to 20-30 tornadoes along the line of severe thunderstorms but some only lasting 20-30secs hence hardly anyone would have knopw about them.
Ive been having a big squiz at all the info I can find, pics, vids etc news reports. I saw the ch 7 one and its clear that Bicton copped the worst of anywhere. TEXTBOOK tornado. Just have a look at that damage to the school! It is horrificly bad, one building or a couple of buildings just mangled like matchsticks, most carried away leaving a slab and yet one building in betwene it all perfectly intact and by the looks hardly touched at all!!!! As it pans to the baskteball court u can see tree remains scattered like broccoli!!! insane! but terrible for those who have had their belongings destroyed etc.
The Bunbury one looks strong with the damage etc i'd rate that one a high F1 low F2 and the Bicton one a strong F2 with winds pushing 180-200km/hr for structural damage like that to occur. It looks like the vortex touched down right above there, and lifted over the untouched building.
Here is the story that aired on ch 7 news, the damage from the aerial shot is insane. http://media.seven.net.au/asxgen/BBR/aap/0505/tmpt1116239364_a0516_1800_7an_tornado_h.wmv.asx
Ive been having a big squiz at all the info I can find, pics, vids etc news reports. I saw the ch 7 one and its clear that Bicton copped the worst of anywhere. TEXTBOOK tornado. Just have a look at that damage to the school! It is horrificly bad, one building or a couple of buildings just mangled like matchsticks, most carried away leaving a slab and yet one building in betwene it all perfectly intact and by the looks hardly touched at all!!!! As it pans to the baskteball court u can see tree remains scattered like broccoli!!! insane! but terrible for those who have had their belongings destroyed etc.
The Bunbury one looks strong with the damage etc i'd rate that one a high F1 low F2 and the Bicton one a strong F2 with winds pushing 180-200km/hr for structural damage like that to occur. It looks like the vortex touched down right above there, and lifted over the untouched building.
Here is the story that aired on ch 7 news, the damage from the aerial shot is insane. http://media.seven.net.au/asxgen/BBR/aap/0505/tmpt1116239364_a0516_1800_7an_tornado_h.wmv.asx