A tornado has ripped through Victoria just days after homes were destroyed by another wild incident in NSW.
Shocking footage emerged last week of a tornado tearing through Bathurst in NSW’s central west, where three people were injured, homes were flattened, trees uprooted and power lines were ripped down.
Late on Sunday afternoon, another tornado hit a regional Australian town with vicious winds whipped up in Victoria.
Areas to the southeast of Horsham were the most heavily impacted by the incident.
Locals filmed the strange weather event, showing the dark clouds and spiralling tornado over lush green fields.
The two tornadoes are most likely linked to a severe weather band moving across the country.
Locals shared footage of the event to social media, with other residents expressing their shock at the powerful winds.
“Apocalypse,” one woman wrote.
“Is this going to be a regular thing now? Is Victoria getting a Tornado Alley?” a man said.
While reports of tornadoes hitting Australia are fairly rare, the events are more common than you might think.
About 80 per cent of the globe’s tornadoes occur along “tornado alley” in the US and Canada, but there are still some that roll through Australia.
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The Bureau of Meteorology estimates there are about 120 tornadoes in Australia each year, however due to its low population density, these events are often missed or not reported. Meanwhile, towns within the tornado alley contain millions of residents, and homes are regularly damaged and people injured.
Tornadoes are formed when warm, moist air travelling across the ground collides with cold dry air moving in an opposite direction. This normally happens under thunderstorms.
The two pockets of air wrap around each other and push a funnel into the thunder cloud system and create the spiral weather event.
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