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This is a list of Japanese disasters by their death toll. Included in the list are disasters both natural and man-made, but it excludes acts of war and epidemics . The disasters occurred in Japan and its territories or involved a significant number of Japanese citizens in a specific event, where the loss of life was 30 or more.
The tornadoes were produced by a thunderstorm interacting with an outflow boundary and were largely unexpected, forming in an area where no tornado risk had been outlined by the Storm Prediction Center. [79] [109] [110] This tornado family caused $3.6 million (2022 USD) in damage according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.
Saroma, Hokkaidō, Japan: 9 fatalities, 26 injuries: F3 tornado. Deadliest tornado in recent Japanese history [83] Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture tornado: 6 May 2012: Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan-1 fatality, 52 injuries: Japan's worst tornado since November 2006; 890 houses were damaged. Rated F3. [84] Sanba (Karen) 18 September 2012: Japan ...
This is a list of tornadoes which has been officially or unofficially labeled as F3, EF3, IF3 during the 2020s decade. These scales – the Fujita scale, the Enhanced Fujita scale, the International Fujita scale, and the TORRO tornado intensity scale – attempt to estimate the intensity of a tornado by classifying the damage caused to natural features and man-made structures in the tornado's ...
The death toll from a major earthquake in western Japan reached 100 Saturday, as rescue workers fought aftershocks to carefully pull people from the rubble. Deaths had reached 98 earlier in the ...
Experts say 2024’s tornado outbreaks set it apart, even in a year full of extreme weather. The U.S. recorded the highest number of tornadoes in a decade.
Tornado outbreak of March 29–31, 2022; Tornado outbreak sequence of April 4–7, 2022; Tornado outbreak of November 4–5, 2022; Tornado outbreak of November 29–30, 2022; Tornado outbreak of December 12–15, 2022; 2022 Andover tornado; 2022 Pembroke–Black Creek tornado; 2022 Russia–Ukraine tornado outbreak; 2022 Winterset tornado
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...