List of tornadoes striking downtown areas of large cities

This article is a list of tornadoes that have impacted the central business district (downtown or city centre) of a large city (that is, one having at least 50,000 people, not counting suburbs or outlying communities, at the time of the storm).

It is a common myth that tornadoes do not strike downtown areas. The odds are much lower due to the small areas covered, but paths can go anywhere, including over downtown areas. St. Louis, Missouri has taken a direct hit four times in less than a century. Many of the tornadoes listed were extremely destructive or caused numerous casualties, and the occurrence of a catastrophic event somewhere is inevitable.

This list is not exhaustive (listing every single tornado that has struck a downtown area or central business district of any city), as it may never be known if a tornado struck a downtown area, or if it was just a microburst (powerful downward and outward gush of wind, which cause damage from straight-line winds), particularly for older events or from areas with limited information. Downbursts often accompany intense tornadoes, extending damage across a wider area than the tornado path. When a tornado strikes a city, it is occasionally very difficult to determine whether it was a tornadic event at all or if the affected area was indeed the "downtown", "city centre", or "central business district" consisting of very high population density and mid to high-rises, as opposed to other heavily urbanized/built-up parts of the city or suburbs. It is sometimes also difficult to determine tornadoes that strike urban cores before 1950, when tornado records (particularly in the US) started to be consistently logged with detail. Before this, lack of details on information from the events, as well as that most cities were far smaller in area and population complicate the record.

For the list of cities that are not listed here for certain reasons, see below.

North America

Note: The F-Scale was superseded by the EF scale in the U.S. on February 1, 2007, and in Canada on April 18, 2013
For tornadoes and cities in: United States, Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Central America, and The Caribbean

F#/EF#	City	Date	Deaths	Event
F3	St. Louis, Missouri	March 8, 1871	9	1871 St. Louis tornado
F3	Chicago, Illinois	May 6, 1876	2
F2	Columbia, South Carolina	April 29, 1880	0
F2	Kansas City, Missouri	May 13, 1883	3
F2	Washington, D.C.	September 16, 1888	0
F2	St. Louis, Missouri	January 12, 1890	4	Tornado history of St. Louis
F4	Louisville, Kentucky	March 27, 1890	76	March 1890 middle Mississippi Valley tornado outbreak
F2	Dallas, Texas	January 20, 1894	1
F4	St. Louis, Missouri	May 27, 1896	255	1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado
F3	St. Catharines, Ontario	September 26, 1898	4	Merritton tornado
F4	Regina, Saskatchewan	June 30, 1912	28	Regina Cyclone
F4	Omaha, Nebraska	March 23, 1913	103	March 1913 tornado outbreak sequence#Omaha tornado
F3	Miami, Florida	April 5, 1925	5	1925 Miami tornado
F3	Indianapolis, Indiana	May 18, 1927	2
F3	St. Louis, Missouri	September 29, 1927	28	September 1927 St. Louis tornado outbreak
F3	Nashville, Tennessee	March 14, 1933	15	March 1933 Nashville tornado outbreak
F4	Greensboro, North Carolina	April 2, 1936	14	1936 Cordele–Greensboro tornado outbreak
F2	Charleston, South Carolina	September 29, 1938	27	Charleston, South Carolina tornadoes
F3	Richmond, Virginia	June 13, 1951	0	1951 Richmond, Virginia tornado
F5	Waco, Texas	May 11, 1953	114	1953 Waco tornado outbreak
F3	Cleveland, Ohio	June 8, 1953	7	Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence
F4	Worcester, Massachusetts	June 9, 1953	94	1953 Worcester tornado
F3	Dallas, Texas	April 2, 1957	19	Early-April 1957 tornado outbreak sequence
F4	St. Louis, Missouri	February 10, 1959	21	1959 St. Louis tornado outbreak
F5	Topeka, Kansas	June 8, 1966	16	1966 Topeka tornado
F5	Lubbock, Texas	May 11, 1970	28	1970 Lubbock tornado
F4	Louisville, Kentucky	April 3, 1974	4	Louisville, Kentucky tornado (1974 Super Outbreak)
F5	Cincinnati, Ohio	April 3, 1974	3	Cincinnati/Sayler Park area tornado (1974 Super Outbreak)
F4	Omaha, Nebraska	May 6, 1975	3	1975 Omaha tornado outbreak
F5	Birmingham, Alabama	April 4, 1977	22	April 1977 Birmingham tornado
F2	Shreveport, Louisiana	April 17, 1978	0
F4	Shreveport/Bossier City, Louisiana	December 3, 1978	2	1978 Bossier City tornado outbreak
F3	Cheyenne, Wyoming	July 16, 1979	1	Cheyenne, Wyoming tornado
F3	Kalamazoo, Michigan	May 13, 1980	5	1980 Kalamazoo tornado
F2	Long Beach, California	November 9, 1982	0
F2	Los Angeles, California	March 1, 1983	0 (30 injured)
F1	Toronto, Ontario	August 14, 1984	0
F5	Warren/Youngstown, Ohio	May 31, 1985	18	The Niles/Wheatland tornado (1985 United States – Canadian tornado outbreak)
F3	Denver, Colorado	June 15, 1988	0
F4	Huntsville, Alabama	November 15, 1989	21	November 1989 tornado outbreak
F2	Panama City	July 6, 1992	12 (50 injured)	1992 Panama City tornado
F1	Houston, Texas	November 21, 1992	0 (26 injured)	November 1992 tornado outbreak
F4	Petersburg, Virginia	August 6, 1993	3	1993 Virginia tornado outbreak
F0	San Antonio, Texas	March 27, 1994	0
F3	Fort Smith, Arkansas	April 21, 1996	3 (89 injured)
F1	Miami, Florida	May 12, 1997	0	1997 Miami tornado
F3	Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario	July 2, 1997	7	1997 Southeast Michigan tornado outbreak
F3	Nashville, Tennessee	April 16, 1998	1	1998 Nashville tornado outbreak
F1	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	June 2, 1998	0
F0	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	January 18, 1999	0
F3	Little Rock, Arkansas	January 21, 1999	2	January 21–23, 1999 tornado outbreak#Little Rock, Arkansas tornadoes
F3	Clarksville, Tennessee	January 22, 1999	0 (5 injured)	January 21–23, 1999 tornado outbreak
F1	Hull, Quebec (Gatineau)	May 8, 1999	0 (6 injured)	List of 1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak tornadoes
F2	Salt Lake City, Utah	August 11, 1999	1	1999 Salt Lake City tornado
F3	Fort Worth, Texas	March 28, 2000	2	2000 Fort Worth tornado
F2	Guelph, Ontario	July 17, 2000	0	2000 Guelph tornadoes
F4	Jackson, Tennessee	May 4, 2003	11	2003 Jackson, TN Tornado #1
F0	Jacksonville, Florida	August 12, 2004	0	Tropical Storm Bonnie
F0	Louisville, Kentucky	April 22, 2005	0
F1	New Orleans, Louisiana	February 2, 2006	0	Tornadoes of 2006#February 2, also struck Louis Armstrong Airport
F2	Iowa City, Iowa	April 13, 2006	0	Easter Week 2006 Tornado Outbreak Sequence
F1	Newmarket, Ontario	July 17, 2006	0	Heat wave of 2006 derecho series
EF2	New Orleans/Kenner, Louisiana	February 13, 2007	1	Tornadoes of 2007#February 12–13
EF0	St. Louis, Missouri	March 31, 2007	0	Late-March 2007 tornado outbreak
EF2	Brooklyn, New York	August 8, 2007	0	2007 Brooklyn tornado
EF1	Des Moines, Iowa	October 2, 2007	0	Tornadoes of 2007#October 2
EF1	Pensacola, Florida	October 18, 2007	0	Mid-October 2007 tornado outbreak
EF1	Springfield, Missouri	January 8, 2008	0	January 2008 tornado outbreak sequence
EF2	Atlanta, Georgia	March 14, 2008	1	2008 Atlanta tornado outbreak
EF1	Springfield, Missouri	February 10, 2009	0	February 2009 tornado outbreak
EF2	Shreveport, Louisiana	April 9, 2009	0	April 2009 tornado outbreak
EF2	Columbus, Georgia	April 19, 2009	0	April 2009 tornado outbreak
F0	Windsor, Ontario	April 25, 2009	0	Windsor 2009 Tornado
EF0	Minneapolis, Minnesota	August 19, 2009	0
F2	Vaughan, Ontario	August 20, 2009	0	Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2009
EF2	Shreveport, Louisiana	October 29, 2009	0
EF2	Huntsville, Alabama	January 21, 2010	0
EF1	Bridgeport, Connecticut	June 24, 2010	0	2010 Bridgeport, CT Tornado
EF1	The Bronx, New York	July 25, 2010	0 (7 injured)	July 2010 Bronx tornado
EF1	Nashville, Tennessee	July 26, 2010	0
EF1	Brooklyn and Queens, New York	September 16, 2010	1	2010 Brooklyn/Queens tornadoes
EF3	Raleigh, North Carolina	April 16, 2011	6	April 14–16, 2011 tornado outbreak
EF3	Fayetteville, North Carolina	April 16, 2011	2	April 14–16, 2011 tornado outbreak
EF3	Jacksonville, North Carolina	April 16, 2011	0 (40+ injured)	April 14–16, 2011 tornado outbreak
EF2	La Crosse, Wisconsin	May 22, 2011	0	May 21–26, 2011 tornado outbreak sequence
EF5	Joplin, Missouri	May 22, 2011	158 (1,150+ injured)	2011 Joplin tornado (May 21–26, 2011 tornado outbreak sequence)
EF1	Minneapolis, Minnesota	May 22, 2011	1 (48 injured)	May 21–26, 2011 tornado outbreak sequence
EF3	Springfield, Massachusetts	June 1, 2011	3 (200 injured)	2011 New England tornado outbreak
EF1	Norman, Oklahoma	April 13, 2012	0	April 13–16, 2012 tornado outbreak
EF1	Hampton, Virginia	June 1, 2012	0	Tornadoes of 2012#June 1
EF1	Mobile, Alabama	December 20, 2012	0
EF2	Mobile, Alabama	December 25, 2012	0	2012 Christmas tornado outbreak
EF0	Tampa, Florida	February 26, 2013	0
EF5	Moore, Oklahoma	May 20, 2013	24 (212 injured)	2013 Moore tornado
EF2	Revere, Massachusetts	July 28, 2014	0
EF0	Belle Haven to Alexandria	Oct. 15, 2014	0
EF0	Los Angeles, California	December 12, 2014	0

South America

South America has no default tornado strength measurement system, so the storms here will be listed using the Fujita Scale.

F#	City	Date	Deaths	Event
F4	Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina	September 16, 1816	21, (90 injured)
F4	Encarnación, Paraguay	September 20, 1926	300 (700 injured)	Violent Tornado demolishes buildings and houses of the port and city center categorized as F4 or F5. is one of the deadliest tornadoes recorded in the world.
F4	Fray Marcos, Uruguay	April 21, 1970	11, (100 injured)	the strongest and deadliest tornado recorded in Uruguay.
F5	San Justo, Santa Fe, Argentina	January 10, 1973	65, (500 injured)	The San Justo tornado it was the most violent tornado ever recorded in South America, and also the entire Southern Hemisphere.
F2	Carmelo	November 21, 1985	2, (25 injured)
F3	Dolores, Buenos Aires, Argentina	November 25, 1985	1, (1 injured)
F4	Estación Lopez, Argentina.	May 6, 1992	4	There weren't nurses in that town of 150 habitants.
F3	Pampas	April 13–14, 1993	7, (80 injured)	There was more than 300 tornados in that night along the central Argentina. Located within the Corridor of the Tornados, this event was the largest tornado outbreak recorded in the Southern Hemisphere, from the twentieth century. The most affected locations were Henderson (F3), Urdampilleta (F3) and Mar del Plata (F2).
F?	Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, Argentina	February 13, 1999	5, (47 injured)
F2	Guernica, Dolores, Buenos Aires and Chascomus, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	December 26, 2000	3, (47 injured)
F3	Guernica and Glew, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	January 10, 2001	5, (200 injured)
F?	Santo Tomé, Santa Fe, Argentina	December 15, 2003	5, (50 injured)
F3	Córdoba, Argentina, Argentina	December 26, 2003	5, (100 injured)	400 houses, 1000 trees and 150 blasting ceiling F-3 tornado (lasted 24 minutes and swept three neighborhoods making it the tornado that lasted more time in the southern hemisphere.)
F4	São Paulo	May 24, 2004	1, (11 injured)	The destruction path of the tornado extended for approximately 15 km, with a width of up to 200 m, with several motor cars being overturned, roofs, concrete walls and pillars demolished, electricity lines interrupted, as well as 20 railroad cars having been pushed off their track.
F2	Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	January 7, 2006	1, (9 injured)
F2	Barranquilla, Colombia	September 15, 2006	(13 injured)	Damaging tornado that was followed by severe flash flooding.
F1	Bogotá, Colombia	November 6, 2007	(1 injured)	Roofs were torn off of buildings, including a car dealership. Windows were blown out and trees were uprooted.
F0	Buenos Aires, Argentina	March 1, 2008	0	Two strong waterspouts over La Plata River.
F4	San Pedro Department, Misiones, Argentina	September 3, 2009	11, (110 injured)	Severe damage in San Pedro and the community of Santa Rosa was completely destroyed by an EF4 tornadoes
F2	Bragado, Argentina	October 29, 2009	1, (15 injured)
F3	Buenos Aires, Argentina	April 4, 2012	27, (900 injured)	A severe storm system of bow echo rise to four tornadoes F1, one F2 and one F3 intensity affecting the west and south of Greater Buenos Aires.
F3	Taquarituba	September 22, 2013	3, (64 injured)	The bus station in the city, gas stations, industries and homes were collapsed.
F4	Villa del Rosario, Córdoba, Argentina	December 2, 2013	3, (+20 injured)	90% of the city was destroyed.
F1	Berazategui	February 21, 2014	(2 injured)
F2	San Vicente, Misiones, Argentina	November 6, 2014	(4 injured)

Europe

Note: The UK uses the TORRO scale.

T#/F#	City	Date	Deaths	Event
T8/F4	London, England	October 23, 1091	Unknown	London tornado of 1091, destroyed London Bridge
F?	Vyšehrad (now Prague), Bohemia	July 30, 1119	Unknown	Vyšehrad tornado of 1119
F?	Prague, Bohemia	May 14, 1144	Unknown	Prague tornado of 1144
F1	Prague, Bohemia	April 8, 1255	Unknown	Prague tornado of 1255
F4	Valletta, Malta	September 23, 1551 (or 1556)	600	Valletta, Malta tornado
F?	Augsburg, Germany	July 2, 1587
F?	Rome, Italy	December 4, 1645
F3	Utrecht, Netherlands	August 1, 1674	Unknown	Utrecht, Netherlands tornado, damaged Dom Tower and Cathedral of St. Martin
F3	Rome, Italy	June 12, 1749	2	Rome tornado of 1749
F3	Padua, Italy	August 17, 1756	Unknown	Padua, 17th August Tornado; heavy damages to the city, the leaded roof of the Palazzo della Ragione was thrown nearly 30km away
F5	Woldegk, Germany	June 29, 1764	1
F5	Hainichen, Germany	April 23, 1800	0
T8/F4	Portsmouth, England	December 14, 1810	Unknown	Portsmouth, United Kingdom tornado
F5	Monville, France	August 19, 1845
F3	Frankfurt, Germany	Summer of 1860	Unknown	Frankfurt tornado of 1860
F?	Brno, Moravia	October 13, 1870		Brno, Czech tornado
F?	Vienna, Austria	June 29, 1873		Many fatalities
F3	Madrid, Spain	May 12, 1886	45 dead	The most catastrophic and deadliest tornado in Spain in the past 200 years, but not the most powerful
F2	Paris, France	September 10, 1896	5 dead	Tornado touched down in the heart of downtown Paris.
F0	Munich, Germany	May 27, 1897	0	Munich tornado of 1897
F4	Cologne, Germany	August 7, 1898	3	Cologne tornado of 1898
F4	Moscow, Russia	June 29, 1904	>10	1904 Moscow tornado. The destroyed areas are within the city limits today, but were suburbs in 1904
F?	Berlin, Germany	July 25, 1909	Unknown	Berlin tornado of 1909
F3	Chemnitz, Germany	May 27, 1916	0	Chemnitz tornado of 1916
T5/F2	Düsseldorf, Germany	June 8, 1924	2	Düsseldorf tornado of 1924
F3	Nice, France	December 1, 1924	~4	Nice tornado of 1924
F4	Neede-Berkelland, Netherlands	June 1, 1927
F5	Montello, Italy/Selva de Montello	July 24, 1930	23	Area between Treviso and Udine, Montello tornado
F3-F4	Lublin, Poland	July 20, 1931	3 dead (1 in Lublin, 2 behind Lublin), a dozen injured	Lublin tornado of 1931
F4	Düsseldorf, Germany	January 10, 1936	2	Düsseldorf tornado of 1936
F4	Borzymmen (Borzymy), Mazury, Poland	July 15, 1940
F4	Klodzko-Slaskie, Poland	August 20, 1946
F2	Hannover, Germany	September 15, 1950	0	Hannover tornado of 1950
F3	Castelo Branco, Portugal	November 6, 1954	5 dead 220 injured	tornadoes in Portugal
F0	Magdeburg, Germany	July 25, 1955	0	Magdeburg tornado of 1955
F1	Düsseldorf, Germany	October 6, 1955	Unknown	Düsseldorf tornado of 1955
F1	Szczecin, Poland	August 25, 1956	0	Szczecin tornado of 1956
F5	Robecco Pavese, Valle Scuropasso, Italy	June 16, 1957
F?	Rawa Mazowiecka and Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą, Poland	May 15–16, 1958	3 dead, 100 injured	Almost 80% of the buildings were damaged.
F3	Garac, France	May 18, 1960	None	The Garac tornado was the most powerful tornadoes to ever strike southwestern France.
F5	Niechobrz, Poland	May 20, 1960	3, 77 injured
F1	Perm, Russia	June 17, 1960	Unknown	Perm tornado of 1960
F1	Voronezh, Russia	August 14, 1961	Unknown	Voronezh tornado of 1961
F5	Palluel, France	June 24, 1967
F4	Padua and Venice, Italy	September 11, 1970	36	Struck the area between the Province of Padua and Venice Lagoon.
F3	Nizhny Novgorod, Russia	July 3, 1974	Unknown	Nizhny Novgorod tornado of 1974
F5	Ivanovo/Yaroslavl/Perm/Tver/Kostroma	June 9, 1984	More 400 deaths in the outbreak	1984 Soviet Union tornado outbreak
F3	Beja, Portugal	September 20, 1987	7 injured	Tornadoes in Portugal
F3	Mangualde, Portugal	December 16, 1989	Unknown	Tornadoes in Portugal
F2	Monza, Italy	15 April 2000		Monza-Villasanta tornado of 2000
F3	Concorezzo, Italy	7 July 2001	92 injured	Strong F3 struck Agrate Brianza,Concorezzo and Arcore.
F2	Galliate, Italy	August 29 2003	12 injured	Galliate tornado of 2003
F2	Duisburg, Oberhausen, Germany	July 18, 2004	6 injured
T4/F2	Birmingham, United Kingdom	July 28, 2005	0 killed, 30 injured	Birmingham Tornado (UK)
F2	Hamburg, Germany	March 27, 2006
T4/F2	London, United Kingdom	December 7, 2006	0	London tornado of 2006
F2	Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany	January 18, 2007	Unknown	Kyrill (storm)
F3	Brandenburg, Germany-Brachwitz, Germany	January 18, 2007	Unknown	Kyrill (storm)
F3	Lauchhammer, Brandenburg, Germany	January 18, 2007	Unknown	Kyrill (storm)
F2	Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany	June 25, 2007	Unknown	Oberrad tornado of 2007
T4/F2	Malaga, Spain	February 1, 2009	0	Malaga tornado of 2009
F3	Moscow, Russia	June 3, 2009	1 killed, 185 injured	2009 Krasnozavodsk tornado
F3	Riese Pio X, Italy	June 6, 2009	28 injured	Tornado struck Vallà di Riese
F3	Saint Petersburg, Russia	July 10, 2010	0
F5	Blagoveshchensk, Russia	July 31, 2011	1 killed, 38 injured	Blagoveshchensk tornado
T4/F2	Venice, Italy	June 12, 2012	0
T6/F3	Silves, Portugal	November 16, 2012	1 killed, 13 injured	Algarve tornadoes
F3	Taranto, Italy	November 28, 2012	1 killed, 42 injured	Wedge tornado over Taranto and Statte.
T3/F1	Catania, Italy	November 5, 2014		Strong F1 tornado over Ognina

Africa

Africa has no default tornado strength measurement system, so the storms here will be listed using the Fujita Scale.

F#	City	Date	Deaths	Event
F4	Karoo/Highveld, South Africa (Trompsburg, Johannesburg & Pretoria)	November 26, 1948	6	Johannesburg - Pretoria Tornado
F?	Albertynesville, South Africa	November 30, 1952	20	Albertynesville, South Africa Tornado
F2	Paynesville, South Africa	December 2, 1952	11	Paynesville, South Africa Tornado
F3	Senekal, South Africa	September 15, 1988	2	Senekal, South Africa Tornado
F3	Mtata, South Africa	December 15, 1998	15	Mtata, South Africa Tornado
F4	Mount Ayliff, South Africa	January 18, 1999	25	Mount Ayliff, South Africa Tornado Outbreak
F3	Heidelberg, Gauteng, South Africa	October 21, 1999	0	Heidelberg, South Africa Tornado Outbreak
F3	Mpumalanga, South Africa	September 9, 2002	2	Mpumalanga, South Africa Tornado Outbreak
F3	Klerksdorp, South Africa	March 3, 2007	1	Klerksdorp, South Africa Tornado
F4	Duduza/East Rand, South Africa	October 2, 2011	2	East Rand - East Rand Tornado
F4	Bebejia, Logone Oriental Prefecture, Chad	May 9, 2007	14, town was destroyed	Bebejia, Chad Tornado

Asia

Most of Asia has no default tornado strength measurement system (though Japan has been known to use the Fujita Scale in the past), so the storms here will be listed using the Fujita Scale.

F#	City	Date	Deaths	Event
F?	Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan	September 26, 1881	16	Miyazaki Tornado of 1881
F?	Dhaka, Bangladesh	April 7, 1888	184 dead, 1200 injured
F?	Yodobashi City, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan	September 23, 1903	10, 14 injured
F?	Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan	November 28, 1941	12 dead, 177 injured, 347 homes destroyed
F?	Tomiye City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan	November 10, 1957	8
F?	Tokyo, Japan	May 24, 1964	480 homes damaged
F?	New Delhi, India	March 17–18, 1978	28 dead, 700 injured	New Delhi Tornado
F?	Dalatpur Upazila, Manikganj/Saturia, Bangladesh	April 26, 1989	1300+	Daulatpur-Saturia Tornado
F3	Mobara, Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan	December 11, 1990	0, 78 injured, 1000 homes damaged	Mobara Tornado
F?	Shanghai, People's Republic of China	August 11, 1995	4
F?	Dhaka Division, Bangladesh	May 13, 1996	700+	Jamalpur-Tangail Districts, Bangladesh Tornado
F3	Toyohashi City, Aichi Prefecture, Japan	September 24, 1999	4	Toyohashi City, Japan Tornadoes
F?	Tokyo, Japan	September 12, 2000	0, several homes damaged
F3	Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture on Kyūshū, Japan	September 18, 2006	3	Nobeoka, Miyazaki Tornado
F4	Lingbi County, Anhui, People's Republic of China	June 20, 2008	1	Lingbi, Anhui Tornado
F1	New Taipei, Taiwan	May 12, 2011	0 known, some light damage	Xindian District, New Taipei city Tornado
F?	New Manila, Quezon City, Philippines	June 24, 2011	at least 1 injured, more than 30 homes damaged	New Manila Tornando
F3	Tsukuba&Jōsō, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan	May 6, 2012	1 dead,30 injured,345 homes damaged	Tsukuba & Jōsō, Ibaraki Tornado
F3	Kaohsiung, Taiwan	April 6, 2013	2 injured,10 homes damaged	Dashu District, Kaohsiung city Tornado
F2	Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, Japan	September 2, 2013	63 injured,89 homes damaged	Koshigaya, Saitama Tornado
F?	Mandaue and Lapu-Lapu City, Philippines	November 4, 2013	13 injured, more than 20 homes damaged	Tropical Depression Wilma (2013)
F?	Cebu City, Philippines	April 8, 2014	1 injured, more than 20 homes damaged	Cebu City Tornado
F0	Taichung, Taiwan	May 29, 2014	0	Waipu District, Taichung city Tornado
F2	Pingtung, Taiwan	July 19, 2014	0	Ligang, Pingtung Tornado
F2	Tainan, Taiwan	July 20, 2015	0	Xinhua District, Tainan city Tornado
F1	Tainan, Taiwan	August 9, 2015	1 injured	South District, Tainan city Tornado
F3	Foshan, Guangdong, People's Republic of China	October 4, 2015	6 dead,215 injured	Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong Tornado

Oceania

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F#	City	Date	Deaths	Event
F3	Port Phillip, / Melbourne, Victoria	February 2, 1918	2 killed, "many more" injured	Brighton tornado
F4	Bundaberg, Queensland	November 29, 1992	0 killed, 0 injured	Bucca tornado / 1992 Queensland Tornadoes
F?	Brisbane, Queensland	November 4, 1973	0 killed, 0 injured
F?	Brisbane, Queensland	December 24, 1989	0 killed, 0 injured
F3	Bendigo, Victoria	May 18, 2003	0 killed, 0 injured	2003 Bendigo Tornado
F?	Waitara / Taranaki, New Zealand	August 15, 2004	2 killed, 2 seriously injured
F?	City of Onkaparinga, South Australia	May 21, 2007	0 killed, 0 injured
F?	New Plymouth / Taranaki, New Zealand	July 4, 2007	0 killed, 0 injured
F?	Ballarat, Victoria	April 20, 2011	0 killed, 0 injured
F2	Auckland, New Zealand	May 3, 2011	1 killed, 20 injured	2011 Auckland tornado

Notable absences

The 1985 Barrie Tornado that struck Barrie, Ontario would be listed here, had it struck today. It is not listed, however, since the town's population was under 50,000 at the time (May 31, 1985). The tornado that hit Grand Valley, Ontario is not listed for similar reasons. Similarly, the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak that spawned the deadly F5 tornado which struck Oklahoma City and some of its suburbs, including Moore and Midwest City, is not listed because it did not reach the downtown core of Oklahoma City.

Similarly, the downtown areas of two then-small towns (now large cities) in North Carolina were struck during the 1884 Enigma outbreak: Concord and Cary. Downtown Concord was struck a second time by a tornado in May 1936.

The 1987 Edmonton Tornado is likewise not listed because it struck industrial parks, trailer parks, and suburban areas, and was far away from Edmonton's downtown core. The "Oak Lawn tornado" of April 21, 1967 which killed 33 people, mostly those in rush hour traffic at a busy intersection, and moved across southern Chicago onto Lake Michigan is not included because it missed the downtown core. Most recently, the 2008 Memphis tornado on February 5, 2008 also missed the downtown area (by a significant distance).

The 1998 tornado that hit Spencer, South Dakota, killing 6 people, the 2000 tornado that hit a campground, killing 12 people, the 2007 tornado that hit Greensburg, Kansas, killing 11 people, the Elie, Manitoba tornado that hit Elie, Manitoba in 2007 with no fatalities, and the 2009 tornado that hit Durham, Ontario, killing one person, are not listed because none of these tornadoes hit a metropolitan area that had a population higher than 50,000. The Southern Ontario Tornado Outbreak of 2005 that hit Toronto was not confirmed and is therefore not listed.

Another notable absence is the July 7, 1915 storm that struck Cincinnati, killing 38 people. This was determined to be most likely a windstorm causing downbursts or even a series of microbursts (with much of the damage coming from the straight-line winds), and not a tornado.

European tornadoes that are listed before 1950 are for cities that had at least 50,000 people in them at the time. Tornadoes dating back to 1054 are confirmed, due to extensive record-keeping for many weather events and other until-then unexplained weather occurrences.

On September 8, 2010, Tropical Storm Hermine went over the state of Texas and produced a few tornadoes in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. One notable tornado was located in an industrialized area west of downtown Dallas before it lifted up over Interstate 35E just south of Dallas Love Field. However the EF-2 tornado was only about 3–4 miles away and did not strike the immediate downtown Dallas area.

See also

• List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of European tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of North American tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
    • List of Canadian tornadoes
  • List of Southern Hemisphere tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
• List of F5 and EF5 tornadoes
• Urban climate and climatology

External links

• Downtown Tornadoes (Storm Prediction Center)
• Major cities not immune from twisters (USA Today)
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• [2]

• Tornado Climatology NWS St. Louis, Missouri
• Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991, Thomas Grazulis
• Ludlam, pg. 46
• Grazulis, pg. 555
• Grazulis, Thomas P. (1993). Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991: Chronology and Analysis of Events. Environmental Films.
• http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/NEWS15/802070393
• [3]
• [4]
• NewsChannel 5.com - Nashville, Tennessee - Similarities and Differences Between 1933 and 1998 Nashville Tornadoes
• The Nashville Tornado of March 14, 1933
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• http://www.tornadoliste.de/tornadoliste1910.htm (German)
• http://www.tornadoliste.de/tornadoliste1920.htm (German)
• http://www.tornadoliste.de/19160527chemnitz.htm (German)
• http://www.tornadoliste.de/tornadoliste1930.htm (German)
• http://www.tornadoliste.de/19240608duesseldorf.htm (German)
• http://www.bilker-markthalle.de/geschichte/1920-1929.html (German)
• http://www.thunderstormteam.it/tornado-montello (Italian)
• http://20lecie.blogspot.com/2008/09/trba-powietrzna-w-lublinie.html (Polish)
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• http://www.tornadoliste.de/19360110duesseldorf.htm (German)
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• UK - After the tornado: "market forces" force demolition of Sparkbrook Church (English)
• Ecclesiastical Law Society (English)
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• BBC Birmingham - Pictures by the public (English)
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• Two dead, road chaos as Hamburg hit by tornado - Expatica
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• Six hurt as tornado hits London - BBC News (English)
• Severe tornado hits London, 6 injured - Washington Post (English)
• Not a mini-tornado, but a genuine twister - The Times (English)
• Severe tornado hits London - Reuters (English)
• Tornado homes safe from demolition - The Guardian (English)
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