San Justo Tornado
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The San Justo Tornado was a tornado
which struck San Justo
, a town in the province of Santa Fe
, Argentina
, on January 10, 1973. 65 people were reported dead and 350 were reported injured. It cut a 300 yard Swath through the town. 500+ Homes were destroyed or damaged.
Some homes were said to have vanished with little or no trace. This could make the Tornado an F5 on the Fujita Scale
.
This tornado was the most dangerous ever reported in Argentina and caused great economic loss.
The town of San Justo which was hit by a tornado in 1973 is in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and not the much smaller suburb of San Justo in the province of Buenos Aires San Justo Department, Santa Fe
For more information about the town of San Justo, Santa Fe, and the tornado, please see the following:
http://www.sanjusto.gov.ar/content/historia.html
http://www.paraconocernos.com.ar/?p=577
Tornado
A tornado is a violent, dangerous, rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. They are often referred to as a twister or a cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology in a wider...
which struck San Justo
San Justo
San Justo is the Spanish name for Saint Justus.As a place-name, San Justo may refer to:* San Justo, Santa Fe— main township of the San Justo Department, Argentina* San Justo Department , various places...
, a town in the province of Santa Fe
Santa Fe Province
The Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe , is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...
, Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
, on January 10, 1973. 65 people were reported dead and 350 were reported injured. It cut a 300 yard Swath through the town. 500+ Homes were destroyed or damaged.
Some homes were said to have vanished with little or no trace. This could make the Tornado an F5 on the Fujita Scale
Fujita scale
The Fujita scale , or Fujita-Pearson scale, is a scale for rating tornado intensity, based primarily on the damage tornadoes inflict on human-built structures and vegetation...
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This tornado was the most dangerous ever reported in Argentina and caused great economic loss.
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The town of San Justo which was hit by a tornado in 1973 is in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and not the much smaller suburb of San Justo in the province of Buenos Aires San Justo Department, Santa Fe
For more information about the town of San Justo, Santa Fe, and the tornado, please see the following:
http://www.sanjusto.gov.ar/content/historia.html
http://www.paraconocernos.com.ar/?p=577