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Extremely rare, large tornado hits southern Taiwan

Lee Shien-feng and Emerson Lim
Focus Taiwan News Channel
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:57 UTC
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Two people were hurt, several houses were destroyed and more than 7,000 households were left without power in two villages in southern Taiwan after a tornado ripped through the area at around 3 p.m. Monday.

The tornado left plenty of damage in its wake, including uprooted electric posts, a collapsed scaffolding and several destroyed houses built with light materials in Zhen'an village in Linbian Township and Wanhua village in Nanzhou Township in Pingtung County, 390 kilometers south of Taipei.

Around 7,400 households in those villages lost electricity due to the downed electric posts or damaged transmission lines, Taiwan Power Co. said.

Local disaster response units were still assessing the damage as of 5 p.m., the Pingtung Fire Department said.

Big tornadoes are extremely rare in Taiwan, and people in the area had never seen a tornado as strong and powerful as this one, according to Linbian Township chief Chen Chun-chi (陳俊吉).

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Rare quadruple waterspouts filmed over lake in Taiwan


Viral Press
Tue, 25 Jun 2019 19:21 UTC
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Drivers were stunned when this super-rare QUADRUPLE waterspout was seen tearing along the horizon. The incredible natural phenomenon was seen above a lake next to the coast of Tainan, Taiwan, today (25/06) just before nightfall.

Singaporean resident Eli Chew captured the scene while she was a passenger in a taxi travelling along the highway during a visit to the area. She said: ''We saw the waterspout after landing in Tainan in Taiwan.

According to our driver, it was a rare sight. It was our first time in the country. Seeing this was very special.

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Watch a monstrous waterspout tear across a lake in Alberta, Canada


CTV News
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:05 UTC
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Two people managed to catch a giant waterspout on camera in Alberta on Friday night.

Danielle Schreiner and Terry Rupp captured videos of a waterspout in Cold Lake, Alberta, roughly 300 kilometres northeast of Edmonton.

"Oh my God!" a woman shouts in the video as a group of onlookers gathers near the shore.

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Best of the Web: Severe hailstorm slams Guadalajara, Mexico with 5 FEET of hail!


Vallarta Daily News
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 17:49 UTC
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A heavy rain and hail storm affected the municipalities of the metropolitan area of ​​Guadalajara and Tlaquepaque, around one o'clock this Sunday morning.

The accumulation of ice was unusual, in Tlaquepaque there were streets where it reached up to one meter in height, so emergency services used heavy machinery for the removal.

"We are doing hail removal work and also verifying the buildings that were affected by hail," said the head of the State Unit for Civil Protection and Firefighters of Jalisco, Víctor Hugo Roldán.


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Hailstorm damaged thousands of acres of Minnesota crops

Adam Belz
Star Tribune
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 16:38 UTC
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A hailstorm that ripped through southwest Minnesota last week left thousands of acres of corn and soybeans damaged or destroyed — in many cases too late in the season for farmers to replant their crops.

"We had a corn and bean field down to dirt again," said George Sill, a farmer southwest of Madelia. "You couldn't hardly tell it had been planted there."

Sill said 150 acres of soybeans and 90 acres of corn were leveled by the storm, and another 200 acres of crops damaged to varying degrees.

When he drove out to his fields after the storm, hailstones were drifted up by the road and fog was rolling in off the fields because so much ice was melting all at once.

"There's multiple veins of hail that ran from the Sleepy Eye area down to St. James and maybe even further south," said Steve Michels, an agronomist at Crystal Valley, a cooperative with a location in La Salle. "It's not unusual to have a hailstorm, but this was one of the more severe ones I've seen."
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Italy: Strong hailstorm damages crops in large areas of Emilia Romagna

Maria Luigia Brusco
Fresh Plaza
Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:13 UTC
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From Reggio Emilia to Rimini, mostly along the Via Emilia and in the Ravenna area. It is the extension of the strong hailstorm that struck much of Emilia Romagna on Saturday 23 June 2019, causing damage to fruit crops and plants.

The Ravenna area, the areas of Lugo, Massa Lombarda, Bagnacavallo were those most affected with very large hailstones (up to 8 centimeters in diameter) and wind so strong as to destroy some protection systems.

"Even in the Modena area, the damages are enormous - explains Davide Marconi from Apofruit - especially on pears. In the uncovered plants, fruits have holes so large as to make them useless. Even in Nonantola the situation is the same. A wide area is very affected in the Modena province.

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Wall collapses on huts in western India, killing 16


ABC News
Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:52 UTC
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© AP Photo/Rajanish KakadeA Municipal officer stands guard to warn pedestrians of an open manhole on a waterlogged street following rainfall in Mumbai, India, Friday, June 28, 2019. India receives its monsoon rains from June to October.
A 4.5-meter (15-foot) high wall collapsed on a cluster of tin-roofed huts housing migrant workers and their families in western India early Saturday following heavy rains, killing at least 16 people, an official said.

The wall dividing the car parking area of a multi-story residential apartment building collapsed in Pune, a city in Maharashtra state, fire official J. Gaekwad said.

Rescuers pulled out alive three people from the rubble and they were hospitalized, he said.

The wall collapsed as the city received 7.3 centimeters (2.8 inches) of rain on Friday, the second-highest rainfall for the month of June in the past nine years, the Press Trust of India news agency said.
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Lightning bolt striking tree filmed in Northeast Portland


Yahoo! News
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 20:32 UTC
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A Portland resident jumped in shock on June 26 when she captured a lightning bolt hitting a tree outside her home as thunderstorms rolled through the area.

The National Weather Service warned at 6.20 pm that strong thunderstorms moving north through the Portland-Vancouver area would bring "lightning, downpours, small hail and gusty winds in excess of 40 mph."

Becca Shelley said she was filming the storm from a doorway in the Gresham neighborhood of the city at 6.40 pm when the lightning struck the tree.


Credit: Becca Shelley via Storyful
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Lightning strikes kill at least 20 across the Indian state of Jharkhand in 3 days


The Weekend Leader
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:23 UTC
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With monsoon hitting Jharkhand there has been some relief, but at least 20 people have also been reported dead due to lightning in different parts of the state over the last three days, police said.

Nine people died on Thursday, seven on Wednesday and rest on Friday.

According to the police three deaths were reported from Lathear, two from Palamau, four in Gumla and Lohardagga district. While there were similar deaths in Jamshedpur, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Sahebganj also.

Every year 50 to 60 people die due to lightning in the state.

Source: IANS

Comment: Lightning strikes kill at least 30 people across the Indian state of Bihar in 24 hours

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Lightning strikes kill at least 30 people across the Indian state of Bihar in 24 hours


Parda Phash
Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:08 UTC
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As per the information given by the official, minimum of 30 people were killed and over a dozen others injured in incidents of lightning strikes across Bihar in the last 24 hours.

The deaths occurred in Bhagalpur, Begusarai, Saharsa, Purnea, Araria, Katihar, Jamui, Khagaria, Madyepura, Madhubani, Darbhanga, Sitamarhi, Mitigari and Gaya districts, the state disaster management department official said.

"The state government has ordered an ex-gratia payment of Rs 4 lakh each to the victims" kin," the official added.

According to the weather office, lightning strikes occur in the state during the June-September monsoon season.

Comment: Elsewhere in the last few days lightning strikes have also killed 6 in Nepal, 3 in Uganda, 5 in Pakistan, 4 in West Bengal (India) and 2 men (while playing mobile games on a mountain) in the Philippines.

Regarding that last report there was a similar incident involving a mobile phone 6 days ago in Maharashtra, India .

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