On August 17, 1969, one of the most powerful hurricanes in history, called Camille, swept through the Mississippi River region in the United States. As a result of rampant elements, 248 people died. We will talk about the most destructive and terrible hurricanes in the history of mankind.

Camille

The main impact of this hurricane fell on the United States. Camille began as a tropical cyclone that formed on 5 August 1969 off the west coast of Africa. On August 14 and 15, the zone of action of the eddies expanded, and the wind speed increased to 180 km/h. After passing Cuba, the hurricane weakened a little: its speed decreased to 160 km / h. Meteorologists hoped that as the hurricane moved toward the southern United States, it might weaken further. But they were wrong. As soon as Camilla crossed the Gulf of Mexico, the hurricane gained strength again. He was awarded the 5th category. Before the hurricane hit the state of Mississippi, on August 17, the meteorological service made an attempt to measure its speed, but was unsuccessful. By the night of the same day, "Camilla" reached the city of St. Louis Bay in Mississippi. The "eye of the storm" of the hurricane was 19 km. After reaching Virginia, the hurricane hit the state with heavy rain. Unexpected rainfall - 790 mm / hour - caused the most severe flooding in the history of the state. The true power of the hurricane is still a mystery. During its passage through the states of Alabama and Mississippi, not a single meteorological instrument survived. The wind speed could exceed 340 km/h. 256 residents of the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Virginia are missing, of which 113 drowned during a flood in Virginia. More than 8931 people were injured. For the state of Virginia, the flood was the most terrible disaster provoked by "Camilla". Heavy downpours caused mud slides, roads were blocked by fallen trees, washed away by streams of water, turning them into canals. More than 120 bridges, thousands of houses were destroyed by water. Property damage from Hurricane Camille was estimated at $6 billion.

San Calixto.

This hurricane is also called the Great Hurricane. This is a tropical cyclone of great power that raged in the autumn of 1780 near the Caribbean archipelago. It became the deadliest of all known hurricanes. According to the documents of that time, at least 22 thousand dead are known, and maybe more. The great hurricane touched the islands of the Caribbean, from Newfoundland to Barbados, passed through Haiti and destroyed up to 95% of all buildings. The tidal wave that the hurricane caused, like a powerful tsunami, passed through some of the islands, sometimes reaching 7-8 meters in height. She destroyed everything in her path. Many ships were sunk both in port bays and at some distance from the coast. Including part of the French and English fleets that took part in civil war USA. Approximately a hundred vessels in the water area ran aground. Eyewitnesses said that strong winds tore the bark off the tree trunks before knocking them down. According to scientists, the wind speed then was at least 350 kilometers per hour.

Mitch.

A hurricane named Mitch passed through the Atlantic basin in October 1998. Meteorologists assigned him the fifth category, the highest. Wind gusts then reached 320 kilometers per hour. The hurricane affected the territories of Nicaragua, Honduras and El Salvador. He completely devastated them and claimed the lives of 20 thousand people. Most of the people died from mudflows, strong winds and tidal waves that towered up to 6 meters in height. More than a million people were left homeless, and hundreds were in need of drinking water and medical preparations. It even led to an increase in infectious diseases.

Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina was the most destructive hurricane in US history and one of the 5 deadliest ever recorded. Over 80% of New Orleans was flooded with water. The hurricane hit the East Coast of the United States in 2005. Despite the meteorological reports, people simply did not have time to prepare for the disaster. The damage amounted to 80 billion dollars, the hurricane claimed 1836 lives, 705 are still missing. About half a million more were left homeless. Moreover, approximately 80% of the area of ​​New Orleans was flooded. In addition, looters took advantage of the natural disaster, before whom the police were powerless. It is noteworthy that at this time the rating of President George W. Bush fell to 38%.

Andrew.

Hurricane Andrew in 1992 brought destruction and death to the northwestern Bahamas, southern Florida, and southwestern Louisiana. 26 people died directly from the impact of the hurricane, and 39 people from its consequences. Officially, Andrew caused $26.5 billion in damage, although some sources state that the actual damage was at least $34 billion.

Bloch Cyclone.

In 1970, Cyclone Bhola hit East Pakistan (today Bangladesh) and West Bengal India. The peak of the cyclone occurred on November 12, 1970. 300 - 500 thousand people died during the impact of the cyclone, although the exact number of deaths from the rampant elements is unknown. This cyclone was relatively small in terms of strength and wind speed; it was assigned the 3rd category of a hurricane. The destructive force of this storm was a huge amount of rainfall. Most islands in the Ganges delta flooded. Villages and crops were literally washed off the face of the earth.

Kenna.

On October 25, 2002, a Category 5 hurricane hit the city of Nayarit. The force of the wind exceeded 250 kilometers per hour, lifting waves of ocean water to a height of up to 4 meters. The village of San Blas was badly damaged, where 75% of all buildings were damaged, trees were uprooted in the streets. Access roads, power lines and pipelines were destroyed. The ships that decided to wait out the hurricane in the port of San Blas did not survive either. Almost all of them washed ashore. Surprisingly, there were no human casualties. And all because meteorologists calculated Kenna's trajectory in advance. Most of the 12,000-strong population of San Blas was evacuated in advance.

Galveston.

A hurricane hit the Texas city of Galveston on September 8, 1900. The wind speed was 200-215 kilometers per hour, the hurricane was assigned category 4. He destroyed over 3600 houses. It was this hurricane that became the deadliest natural disaster in the United States, it claimed 6,000 human lives. The total damage exceeded $20 million at the rate of 1900.

Iniki.

This is the most powerful hurricane in Hawaii in human history. At peak intensity, winds reached 235 km/h and the hurricane was assigned a Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale. September 11, 1992 was the peak of the hurricane. Six people died, but the destruction was catastrophic for a small island. Damage totaled over $1.8 billion.

Typhoon Nina.

In China, typhoons are not uncommon, but Typhoon Nina in 1975 proved to be the most destructive. Then the force of the wind broke through the Bankiao Dam, causing water to rush into settlements. Other dams in China have also collapsed. The number of victims is estimated from 100 to 230 thousand.

In our lane, tornadoes are a rarity, but there are countries that are less fortunate. They even write children's tales about tornadoes (remember at least The Wizard of Oz). Where do the largest cataclysms happen, and most importantly, what consequences do they leave behind?

Perhaps this tornado was not the most powerful (we will talk about the scale by which the strength of a tornado is estimated below), but it turned out to be the most cruel in the history of mankind. He walked through the cities Saturia and Daulatpur in Bangladesh.

"Cardboard" houses of poor quarters and cars he lifted into the air instantly, because of which he died - it's even scary to say! - about 1300 people. And this - in a few minutes! There were even more injured - 12 thousand. Those who did not suffer (about 80 thousand people) are also not to be envied - they were left without a roof over their heads and livelihoods ...

The largest tornadoes that shocked the world

1. Mrizapur and Madarganj (Republic of Bangladesh), 1996. The tornado destroyed about 80,000 houses and killed 700 people. And at the same time, none of the scientists could warn of the threat, so suddenly a natural disaster hit these two cities.
2. Dhaka city(now it belongs to Bangladesh, but in 1969 it was part of East Pakistan). Its eastern and northern parts were hit by a tornado that killed 660 and maimed 4,000 people. This whirlwind had a twin brother. Tornadoes were born in the same storm system, but separated. The second tornado hit the Comilla area, where 223 people were killed.
3. Yangtze River (China), summer 2015. Scientists managed to sound the alarm, and most of the ships left the territory of the emerging hurricane. Unfortunately, except for one large cruise ship. All of its 442 passengers died.

Tornadoes in America

The inhabitants of this country are so often faced with tornadoes that they even came up with a classification for them.

• F0 - weak, can knock down an antenna, a chimney, a couple of branches, or knock down a thin dry tree.
• F1 - medium, easily knocks out windows and pulls off roofs, can throw a moving car into a ditch.
• F2 - large, can destroy a wooden house, carry away a car, overturn a wagon.
• F3 - serious, destroys houses, bends metal hangars, uproots trees (almost all), lifts a car into the air, can overturn a train.
• F4 - devastating, can grind an entire street, lifts many objects into the air, can blow a car or an entire train.
• F5 - destroying, pulling out houses to the foundation, circling cars. It is interesting that such a tornado goes only along a narrow "path" from 10 to 500 meters.

Oklahoma is considered the biggest risk zone - here such atmospheric phenomena occur more often than anywhere else on Earth. Every year in North America there are about a thousand whirlwinds ... And this is like a magnet attracts extreme people.

Top 5 most destructive tornadoes in the US

1. Tri-State Tornado: Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, 03/18/1925. A tornado of the “destroying” class, around which 8 more “children” were spinning. Despite the name, this natural disaster affected 4 more American states, that is, a total of seven. In three and a half hours, the procession of the funnel left 50 thousand people homeless. The wind speed was 100 kilometers per hour. There were many victims: almost 700 people died, about 2 thousand were taken to hospitals.
2. Tupelo (Mississippi) and Gainesville (Georgia), 04/05/1936. Starting in Mississippi, the tornado was a Category 5 tornado. Having reached Georgia, he calmed down a bit, “tucked up” to the 4th category, but he was still terrible. In the first city, he killed 203 people and injured more than one and a half thousand (although most likely there were many more victims - this data was taken from the newspapers of that time, and they wrote only about the white population; how many blacks suffered is unknown). It is noteworthy that little Elvis Presley was among the survivors - he was only a year old that year. In the second city, 216 people died (some of the victims were not found, so they were declared missing).
3. "The Beast", Oklahoma City, 05/03/1999. The whirlwind raged for about 1.5 hours. But vigilant meteorologists managed to fix the birth of a hurricane at 4 o'clock in the morning and warn the population, so the inhabitants of the village of Bridge Creek (from which almost nothing remained a little later), and then the population of the city of Oklahoma, began a hasty retreat. The force of the wind was surprisingly large - 510 kilometers per hour. The tornado traveled 61 kilometers and demolished about eight thousand houses. The death toll is 38 people.
4. Moore, Oklahoma, 05/20/2013. The tornado "processed" an area 27 km long and 3 km wide. A strong wind raged (267 kilometers per hour), and for quite a long time - 40 minutes. But through the efforts of local scientists, the town of 56 thousand people managed to evacuate, so relatively few people died - 24 people. Well, 230 more were wounded.
5. Wichita Falls, Texas, 04/02/1958. The wind speed of this natural disaster was even listed in the Guinness Book of Records - of course, 450 kilometers per hour! He lifted houses into the air, “driving” around the town like a huge ice rink. The things he "stole" could later be found at a great distance from Wichita Falls. Fortunately, not so many people suffered - 7 people died, 100 were crippled. But the insurance companies had a hard time: the tornado “crushed” the property into 15 “lemons”.

Is it possible to meet a tornado in Europe?

Yes, although rarely. From 1944 to 1998, scientists recorded 264 tornadoes on the territory of the countries of the former USSR, most of which were weak. Over the past 130 years, only 13 F3-class eddies and two F4-class eddies have occurred on our lands.

Here are examples of memorable tornadoes from the recent past:

• In 2002, a tornado hit the Crimean village of Vypasnoye. He demolished about half of the houses, seven people were seriously injured. The air whirlwind sucked domestic birds - chickens, ducks, turkeys, throwing them outside the village. It is noteworthy that all of them were completely plucked by the wind.
• In the same 2002, a giant funnel (200 meters across, 3 kilometers high) formed in the Krasnodar Territory. About 58 people died.
• In 1940, in the Gorky region, a tornado unearthed the ground in which an ancient treasure was hidden. When it began to subside, gold coins began to fall on the heads of local residents.

And what else are tornadoes?

Above are the most typical - air tornadoes. And there is:

• Water. Sometimes the air "spinning top" does not rise above the land, but above the water, and begins to circle it. If it turns out to be a river or lake, the water can be sucked to the bottom. If the sea, fish, jellyfish rise into the air. They can be thrown far on land, and it looks quite original - in the city it suddenly starts to “rain” from frogs or herring.
• Mud. Here, too, everything is simple - swamp mud or silt rises into the air ... We do not envy the people on whom it then falls!
• fiery. They are caused by strong fires, less often by volcanic eruptions. One of these happened relatively recently, in 2000, in the city of Winkler (Canada). There was a fire at the linen factory, and it started in a more banal way - from the fire of a warehouse wooden partition. In less than an hour, the fire engulfed tons of flax stored there, and the air heated up to 500 degrees. From the difference in pressure, a whirlwind formed, which "jumped" out of the factory and began to move along the valley. He threw a moving truck 135 meters away - the driver, unfortunately, died.

But of course, in the photo it all looks impressive, but what do tornadoes and tornadoes look like in real life? Extreme people from America, who call themselves tornado hunters, will help us find out about this. They are ready to get into hell themselves, but to shoot the most impressive shots, and of course, put them on YouTube. And yes, the birth of a tornado, as well as a whirlwind in all its glory - this is something indescribable!

Problems range from local annoyances to global cataclysms. Volcanic eruptions, large hail, destroying crops and breaking through the roofs of houses, cars, prolonged rains, causing a rapid rise in the water level in rivers, heavy rains, leading to mudflows and landslides. In addition, there are tropical cyclones, which are so fond of scaring the inhabitants of the meteorological service. different countries, including Russia, the notorious global warming, elusive as SARS, foreign tornadoes and domestic tornadoes, sea / ocean storms, hurricanes - just countless. Of inexhaustible interest are tornadoes that arise for reasons inexplicable to an ordinary person in a matter of minutes, terrifying, mystical appearance, sad in terms of the amount of destruction, general material damage, often victims. What and where was the largest tornado in the world - this question is probably interesting to all readers.

First of all, to avoid confusion in concepts, it is necessary to say that hurricanes are tropical cyclones moving at great speed and with the same destructive force, coming to land from the ocean, and this happens in many places in the world, from the USA to Far East Russia, have little in common with tornadoes.

Is that their ultra-high speed of moving air for normal atmospheric conditions and devastating consequences for people caught in their zone of action. But at the same time, a hurricane is a much more global phenomenon, in comparison with a tornado, which is nascent, acting on a limited territory in comparison with it.

Now about the difference between the concepts of a tornado and a tornado. These are two names for the same destructive atmospheric natural phenomenon. It's just that the first is more familiar to the inhabitants of Russia, and the second - to the United States and Canada, on whose territory in North America the largest number of such horrific "gifts" from the planet Earth occur.

By the way, the natural phenomenon got its foreign name from the conquistadors, who saw a spinning storm, and called it - tornar, which is translated from Spanish - twirl / twist. The word, familiar to the inhabitants of Russia, goes back to the Old Russian “smurch”, which meant a cloud.

Scientific explanations for the mechanism of the occurrence of a tornado are as follows:

• This is an atmospheric vortex, also called an annular storm.
• Differences from a hurricane - the scale of the zone of action from the origin to the loss of wind energy, dispersion, varying from tens of meters above the surface of water bodies to 3 km - above solid ground.
• Favorable conditions for the appearance - a thunderstorm front with cumulus rain clouds, in which it occurs, spreading down to the very surface of the earth or water (depending on the place of origin) in the form of a sleeve, rope, trunk, so the tornado is seen by observers.
• Inside the tornado, the air masses descend, and rise outside, which creates rotation and, as a result, a zone of strong rarefaction, whose values ​​inside the tornado, which scientists, for obvious reasons, really want to measure, but do not succeed, are so high that they are filled with air under normal atmospheric pressure buildings with closed windows, doors simply explode, at best, losing glazed joinery, but often this leads to more significant destruction. This is especially true for mortgage-backed buildings made of wooden blocks, plywood and drywall, which are famous for one-story America ignorant of the misadventures of two of the three piglets from the fairy tale.
• The air speed inside the tornado, determined by scientists based on indirect observational data, can reach terrifying values ​​- up to 1,300 km / h.
• The tornado is inseparable from the cloud that gave birth to it, and moves along with it.
• The length of the passage of a tornado is different, it directly depends on the energy reserve of the thunderstorm front, meteorological conditions along the route, varying from several tens to hundreds of kilometers with a zone of strong, sometimes continuous, destruction hundreds of meters wide.

An “ordinary” tornado should not be confused with dusty / sand whirlwinds / storms, since the mechanism of origin, development of these natural phenomena is different, despite the external similarity / similarity.

Tornadoes can theoretically occur anywhere on the Earth, with the exception of mountainous and polar regions, but, in practice, among the leaders are the Great Plains in the United States, which, apparently, are an ideal natural testing ground for the creation and development of tornadoes, as well as the southern regions of Brazil and China. In other regions of the planet, including Russia, the conditions for their appearance are rarely formed - on average, 1 time in several years.

The most powerful tornadoes in human history occurred:

Assess which one is the largest at least, unethical.

The most powerful tornado in Russian Empire, which occurred on June 29, 1904, was mentioned famous writer Vladimir Gilyarovsky in the essay "Hurricane". Anyone can get to know him. It is worth warning that the essay ends with the words “Terrible impression”, characterizing the author’s attitude to what he saw after the past tornado.

Readers, having learned from the article that a tornado in the world is extremely unlikely in the vast expanses of Russia, can more easily watch news programs on TV, similar information on the Internet, despite the hysterical assurances of bloodthirsty journalists that everything, in connection with the semi-mythical global warming, it will only get worse.

The record for the strongest tornado in terms of wind speed, listed in the Guinness Book of Records, was recorded in the United States in the town of Wichita Falls, Texas on April 2, 1958. The maximum wind speed was 450 km/h. Such a tornado is classified as destructive, i.e. he “partially or completely destroys strong houses, lifts the lungs of the house into the air and transfers it to a certain distance, creates and sucks in a large amount of garbage and debris, transfers uprooted trees to a certain distance, blows away upper layer soil, lifts into the air and carries cars and heavy objects for a considerable distance ”(Fujita Tornado Category Scale).

One of the strongest tornadoes hit the northern and northwestern parts of Wichita Falls along with Sheppard Air Force Base on April 3, 1964, killing 7 people and injuring over 100. The damage amounted to 15 million dollars. There are about a thousand tornadoes in the US every year. Oklahoma City gets the most. More than a hundred recorded tornadoes occurred there alone! Tornadoes occur all over the planet. But most often - in the USA, Australia and Northeast Africa. A tornado (tornado) is a powerful rotating whirlwind. Horizontal dimensions up to 50 km, vertical dimensions up to 10 km. Wind speed can reach more than 33 m/s. The form of tornadoes is also diverse - a column, a cone, a glass, a barrel, a rope similar to a whip or a whip, but most often it is the form of a rotating funnel. The strength of a tornado with a radius of 1 km and a speed of 70 m/s can be compared with the energy of a small atomic bomb.

In 1879, 2 tornadoes completely destroyed the town of Irving with 300 inhabitants (Kansas, USA). A steel bridge 75 meters long took off the ground and completely twisted into a ball.

On May 26, 1917, the Mattoon tornado broke the record of its existence, passing 500 km across the United States in 7 hours and 20 minutes. The width of its funnel reached 1 km. 110 people died.

Destructive and prolonged tornado of three states - Missouri, Illinois and Indiana (Tri-State Tornado). A tornado occurred on March 18, 1925, traveling 352 km across these states in 3.5 hours at a speed of 117 km / h. 350 people died, about 2 thousand were injured. Losses amounted to 40 million dollars. Tornadoes in the United States have killed 689 people this year.

On April 3 and 4, 1974, the most extensive tornado outbreaks were recorded in the province of Ontario (Canada) - 148 within 18 hours. A super-outbreak of enormous intensity generated more than a hundred tornadoes, spread across most of the US states, and led to the death of more than 300 people.

As a result of a tornado in Bangladesh (Daultipur-Salturia) on April 26, 1989, about 1300 people became victims. Tornadoes are most frequent in Florida (May-September), here they occur almost daily. In 1935, in one of the tornadoes, wind speeds of up to 500 km / h were recorded. And, for example, in England, the strongest tornadoes were recorded in 1091 in London and on December 14, 1810 in Portsmouth, gr. Hampshire (8 points).

If you are in the house - hide in a safe place, try to go to the basement, cellar or go down to the lowest level of the building. If there is no safe cover, then move away from the windows, hold on to something very heavy, such as sturdy furniture. Protect your head and neck with your hands. If you are outside, go inside the nearest buildings, but avoid places with large and wide roofs. Hold on to very heavy objects. You can sit down behind a strong building, or sit in a special shelter, if it is specially provided for your area and is nearby. If there is no shelter, sit in a ditch or lowland.

We hope that this instruction will not be useful to you, since strong tornadoes are rare with us. Besides big cities(there are exceptions) the tornado bypasses. But still, the information is not superfluous.

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The strongest tornadoes over Russia and the USSR

Russian word"tornado" comes from the word "twilight", since tornadoes appear from black thunderclouds that cover the sky.

The first mention of a tornado in Russia dates back to 1406. The Trinity Chronicle reports that near Nizhny Novgorod, "the whirlwind is terribly terribly" lifted into the air a team together with a horse and a man and carried them away so that they became "invisible quickly." The next day, a cart and a dead horse were found hanging on a tree on the other side of the Volga, and the man was missing ...

The air in the tornado rotates at great speed. It is very difficult to directly measure its maximum speed: the instruments cannot withstand the onslaught of the elements. Apparently, in some cases the speed of the whirlwind reaches 400–500 kilometers per hour. In this case, huge centrifugal forces arise, which create a strong rarefaction inside the vortex. That is why the tornado draws in sand, soil, water, various items. It happens that a tornado draws in a huge amount of water, which, when its column breaks up, pours onto the ground in a single stream.

On August 21, 1985, near Sochi, about 40 cars and many tents with people in them were washed into the sea by a water shaft that swept along the Hobza River. The day before, it rained continuously in this area for almost a day, but there was no noticeable rise in the water level in the river. And then a tornado came out from the sea to land. All the water contained in it - perhaps several hundred thousand cubic meters - spilled into the upper Khobza. A water shaft 5.5 meters high and about 150 meters wide was formed, which rushed to the sea, sweeping away everything in its path.

On June 29, 1904, a destructive tornado was born near Moscow. It moved towards Moscow, becoming wider and wider. Soon his column reached a width of about 500 meters. When he reached the village of Shashino, huts began to take off into the sky; the air around him was filled with debris and pieces of trees.

At the same time, to the west, a few kilometers from the first, there was a second tornado. He moved along railway passing through the stations Podolsk, Klimovsk and Hryvno.

Both tornadoes crashed into densely built-up areas of Moscow. As they advanced, darkness fell, accompanied by a terrible noise, roar and whistle, drowning out everything around. A hail of unprecedented proportions fell; individual hailstones, shaped like a star, reached 400-600 grams. A direct hit from such a hailstone killed on the spot, chopped thick branches of trees, tore off wires.

The destructive power of the tornado was terrifying. 200 houses were damaged in Kapotnya, 150 in Chagino; most of them have been reduced to rubble. The large stone houses survived, but the roofs were torn off everywhere, the rafters were broken, and in some places the top floor was also damaged. The number of victims exceeded one hundred people, the wounded counted 233.

On May 29, 1981, a black cloud descended on the Lithuanian town of Shirvintas. Around 16.30, a "trunk" descended from it, which, wriggling, approached the ground. Here is what a machine operator who worked on a tractor at that time said: “Suddenly, sand, earth, and leaves and scraps of paper that had come from somewhere began to spin, rise up, merging with a pillar that had descended from a black cloud. A strong hum was heard. Suddenly I see: the horse flew through the air and plopped down on the ground. My eight-ton tractor and sixteen-ton trailer started tossing from side to side, and I grabbed the seat ... I don’t remember anything else. I woke up in the hospital."

It turned out that the tornado overturned the tractor and threw the tractor driver out of the cab.

Moving over the Shirvinta River, the tornado sucked water into itself and, having carried 200–300 meters, poured it out. Having swept through the stone cottages, the tornado tore off the roofs, tore out the floors and “sucked out” all things. Everything flew away, even furniture (those who were not injured collected their belongings for several days). The power of the tornado was incredible. Even the modern buildings of the oil plant and the boiler house could not resist it. KamAZ and Kirovtsy flew through the air, not to mention cars. The tornado lifted the service bus from the ground, carried it through the boiler room and threw it over 300 meters; the driver, who tried to put the car in a shelter, died.

On June 9, 1984, in the afternoon, tornadoes of monstrous force passed through the Moscow, Kalinin, Yaroslavl, Ivanovo and Kostroma regions. The most powerful tornado was observed in Ivanovo. At 15.45 a very dark cloud with a "trunk" appeared near the city. A funnel-shaped ledge descended to the ground, swaying from side to side. Almost touching the surface, the funnel began to expand rapidly and suck in objects. Its lower end rose and fell again. It was clearly visible that the “trunk” was rapidly rotating, throwing out at a height the objects drawn in shortly before. There was a strong whistle and rumble, as if from a jet plane. The funnel inside glowed with lightning, and it all looked like a boiling cauldron...

The cloud from which the tornado descended was rapidly moving north. In a strip about 500 meters wide, the tornado leveled houses, broke and pulled out trees, poles, power lines, and demolished wagons from the rails. Cars, buses, trolleybuses were raised, turned over and thrown aside many times. Spruces uprooted fell, pines and birches broke, houses collapsed. The tank of the water tower weighing 50 tons was thrown 200 meters to the side. In an instant, the tornado turned everything into a continuous mess, leaving behind the corpses of people and uprooted trees. Only those who took refuge in the cellars of stone houses were saved ... The tornado completely wiped out the villages of Belyanitsy and Govyadovo from the face of the earth. Only in one city hospital 97 people were operated on, another 166 received first aid. The total number of victims was huge, and the exact number of deaths is still unknown to this day.

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