Australian man attempts to take selfie in tornado
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Has to be fake. It was so close to him while he was standing outside the truck, that it would have sucked him up and spit him out 200 yards away. No way he could have outrun it back to the vehicle.
That looks very fake. That twister didn't really do much. Ones in the States are a mile or two wide.
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Not fake. But also...
The very strongest ever estimated was 75mph (equivalent to a very, very weak tornado - EF0). But most strong dust devils only reach about 45-60mph. Average dust devils, not even that much. I think the misnaming probably comes from the fact that tornadoes are fairly rare in Australia: about 16/year across the entire continent. Consequently, most Australians aren't familiar with just how strong a real tornado is. Most there think a tornado is just like a strong dust devil.
It's sort of like how many folks in parts of the US that don't experience hurricanes underestimate the true power of a hurricane. That's partly why Sandy (not a hurricane but equivalent to a weak Category 1 hurricane at landfall) was called a "super-storm". There was nothing "super" about it. But for them, it was. But along the gulf coast, it would have almost been a non-event.
That was NOT a tornado at all.
That's exactly what it was.
The very strongest ever estimated was 75mph (equivalent to a very, very weak tornado - EF0). But most strong dust devils only reach about 45-60mph. Average dust devils, not even that much. I think the misnaming probably comes from the fact that tornadoes are fairly rare in Australia: about 16/year across the entire continent. Consequently, most Australians aren't familiar with just how strong a real tornado is. Most there think a tornado is just like a strong dust devil.
It's sort of like how many folks in parts of the US that don't experience hurricanes underestimate the true power of a hurricane. That's partly why Sandy (not a hurricane but equivalent to a weak Category 1 hurricane at landfall) was called a "super-storm". There was nothing "super" about it. But for them, it was. But along the gulf coast, it would have almost been a non-event.
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It probably wouldn't have been on the evening news
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