Bulahdelah tornado: Difference between revisions

The '''Bulahdelah Tornado''' was an intense [[tornado]] which occurred near the town of [[Bulahdelah]] ({{Convert|100|km|mi|1}} north-northeast of [[Newcastle, New South Wales|Newcastle]]), [[New South Wales]] on 1 January 1970, and is thought to be the most destructive tornado ever documented in [[Australia]].<ref name="BoM">{{cite web|title=Stormy Weather: A century of storms, fire, flood and drought in New South Wales|url=http://www.bom.gov.au/nsw/sevwx/facts/stormy-weather.pdf|work=[[Bureau of Meteorology (Australia)|Bureau of Meteorology]]|accessdate=19 April 2017}}</ref> It is thought to have reached F5 intensity on the [[Fujita scale]];<ref>{{Cite web |last=says |first=Carlos |date=2013-02-15 |title=F5 Tornadoes: The Chronology – Part II |url=https://ericsweatherlibrary.com/f5-tornado-chronology2/ |access-date=2022-04-27 |website=Eric's Weather Library |language=en}}</ref>{{better source|date=July 2022}}{{Self-published source|date=October 2022}} however, no official rating has been made public.<ref>{{cite web |title = Tornadoes of Australia and New Zealand |url = http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/storm/tornadoes-aunzea.htm |publisher = The Weather Doctor |accessdate = 5 April 2008