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Sandon tornado

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Formed
  
13 November 1976

Casualties
  
2 fatalities

Start date
  
November 13, 1976

Max rating
  
F3 tornado

Areas affected
  
Sandon / Castlemaine

Damage
  
10.5 million AUD

The Sandon tornado struck the township of Sandon, Victoria, Australia on 13 November 1976. The tornado is likely to have been an F3 on the Fujita scale. It killed two people when their parked car was picked up and lifted around 9 metres off the ground and thrown 100 metres into a ditch.

References

Sandon tornado Wikipedia