tornado up-close Australian Tornado multivortex Dunoon Jimmy Deguara

[WickedTornado]

Hi Jimmy, this is fellow chaser Joel Ewing (Nebr. native / now in Tucson, Ariz). You and I met several years ago for about 10 seconds in some field in Kansas or Colorado...I wouldn't expect you to remember...lol. Anyways, it's been a year since I last viewed this unbelieveable video of yours, and as I said in last year's post...I've bookmarked it so I can return to see it another twenty times before I leave it alone again for awhile. Still...the most stunning tornadic segment I've ever seen.

[superchaser3]

Nice footage. :)



[SupercellKid]

Thanks Jimmy. I'm a big fan and you're a great inspiration

[jimmydeguara]

Yes these are a mix of videos from Tornado Alley and Australia. I tried to label them the best as I could since the early days of me placing videos on Youtube. Enjoy. I am ok no worries.

[heatherdumas]

Hi, I'm just wondering, I see that you have a lot of nice videos of storms/tornadoes, and I was wondering if any of them were from the U.S. or outside of Australia? Because some weren't labeled. My guess is this one is maybe an EF2 tornado? It's pretty scary being in one, isn't it? They can be ferocious. I'm glad you're ok!

[RandyortonFan160]

Wow

[XxMariiJanexX]

Omg, you are to close buddy :O

[AManNamedCM2]

God... Australia is the Texas of the British Empire.

[dalan0201]

this is an awesome video, good work

[kurthf74]

I live in Dunoon and am very impressed at your ability to pick this event... wanna work for the BOM here in Oz?? We NEED YOU!!!!! lol. Geez, pretty brave parking spot there mate!! Impressed.

[splendour97]

All right how much did your mates pay you?

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I just want my share... nothing wrong with that!

[arlisvd]

Darn! Darn! what a dangerous situation but amazing video though...there is something mysterious about these multivortex whirl winds... Is it curiosity that pumps up your adrenaline? or just the love you show for these things?

[crisss994]

i love how the metal thing shorts out the substation :)

[hawkeyesurfer]

Talk about perfect positioning. A tornado and a power station.

[jimmydeguara]

I think you will find that the tornado rotated clockwise which is opposite from the United States or Northern Hemisphere situation. You have to imagine looking from the top down.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[naderchaser]

@jimmydeguara Hey Jimmy, this is USA chaser Joel Ewing. You've taken some wonderful video over the years, but this capture is just flat-out over the top! I watched this several months ago and bookmarked it, so I could view it periodically. I think it's that incredible. Tell me, is this capture on a "best of" tape or CD that you sell? If so, please let me know, as I definitely wish to order it...maybe a few actually...as they would make really nice Christmas gifts. Thanks...Joel in Tucson

[SouthsideGar42]

I used to wonder if tornadoes spun the opposite direction in the Southern hemisphere to the ones I have seen here (tornado alley, U.S.A.) judging by this excellent footage, that doesn't appear to be the case. great post!

[68bop]

I didn't get to see it, but I saw the results afterwards (that substaion is about 500m from my house).

The local church had two walls collapse, a weatherboard house had almost every board stripped from it leaving only the frames and the local school was badly damaged as well.

(exactly a year later I photographed a twister - didn't touch down luckily- only 10km away at a relies farm near The Channon)

[68bop]

This is the second twister to hit Dunoon since I bought my place in 96, the first was a little to the south of where the video was taken and destroyed only a couple of sheds and a farm house

[TacticalManeuver]

I once saw a train wreck, and it actually sounded like a tornado.

[TroySundt]

You can actually kind of hear a train like sound!

[blrkeith]

That's sweet ! I chase tornadoes never was that close !  Keep up the chase !

[Broadcastbuddy2]

HOLY SHIT!!

[rone100theone]

amazing!!

[GeoffJennyOliver]

...that is great stuff - really wild...

[pingtang666]

This footage amazes me every time I see it!!!!!

[bluevanities]

daaaaamn! you've got some BALLS! very cool though. I would love to be a storm chaser. Amazing.

[michal92199216]

wow It was strong multi vortex tornado :)

[kvltdvl666]

We're not in Kansas anymore Toto.

[wowpapa]

Man come to America in the spring.

[Shersequest]

haha, I was on the bus when this hit, we couldn't get through Dunoon because of live wires and flooding, I got off my bus at 7:00.

[TravvyG]

Here I was thinking Australia doesn't get Tornados but here is a video to prove so. I didn't think are Climite was capable of producing Tornados but I'm wrong =0. Wow don't mess with AC Electricity Kids cause just look at the Raw power when that peace of Tin (I think) hits it

[dragonridley]

It's kinda weird to see one rotate clockwise.

[ahgugsrinivasan]

thrilling... superb.... It must be a great experience for you..

[ajp42109]

Ive never ever seen tape of a tornado in another country before, this is the first time. Amazing!

[floridaboy0523]

Nice video!

[jewlzben]

going storm chasing are you, " well your not taking the kingswood"

[ilyaz619]

if that happens i would be away from power lines

[SaskView]

Freakin Amazing!

[jimmydeguara]

They don't call me Die Hard for nothing buddy:)

Jimmy

[AlienFirefox]

@jimmydeguara

your a lucky bastard mate i love storms

[maxpepsiman]

hm... if i was u these will be the choses

1.GET HIT BY A TORNADO AND DIE

2.or just drive away

but no u had to chose die .........bad boy im telling your mother

[jimmydeguara]

Ta - this was a real shock and I had to quickly adjust to US chasing conditions from just chasing a supercell with hailstones! I only had 5 seconds to make the adjustment and it took some time for me to calm down.

[Mymieke]

Nice! Once again, a stellar job!

[jimmydeguara]

I am really annoyed that I was too shaky on the footage but I had to remain on the drivers side (right hand side of the vehicle) with car turned on in case I had to evacuate quickly.

[Mymieke]

Safety first, but you still did a great job with it. You seemed to adapt pretty fast to the situation. And you didn't get hurt!

[minimorgan69]

@jimmydeguara man i dont blame you for being shaky your filming an effing tornado and by looks of the vid your fucking close!! ahaha its a sick vid man good work

[jessical12345678910]

this is an great footage!! 0:05 shit!!! lol

[DanubeRS]

haha, every great tornado vid, aussie or not, needs a power sub-station somewhere nearby :P

Just hoping for some activity like this in SEQ if i ever get the time to chase

[davidlee110]

Epic

[XxJimmyBennettFanxX]

then most of the kids that did walk home had 2 witness the tornado by themselves as their parents hadn't arrived home yet.

[XxJimmyBennettFanxX]

plus! something i left out was that a LOT of my friends could have died but didnt...they were in school when the teachers let them of early and most of them went home...about 10-15 minutes later the tornado hit the school and knocked over a wall (which would have squished all of them and tragicallily killed them or at least extremly badly hurt them...but some of the kids had 2 stay 2 get picked up but took refuge in the staffroom and didnt get hurt but were trapped for a while...

[XxJimmyBennettFanxX]

i was only 11 when that happened and i was going through dunoon 2!

the tornado formed over my friends house and she said it was so scary!

it also blew the roof off my other friends house who was hiding in the safe (it being an old bank) and probably would have gotten seriously hurt without it!

it was rlly scary and i was terrified of storms for months after....

[jimmydeguara]

Lywnis, you have misunderstood my comment - not claiming hero status here it's the truth. There was a sense of eerie calmness whilst this strong tornado ripped trees out of the ground and threw them around. It was not until viewing the video that I realised they were small trees not small branches!

Also remember, this was the closest I have ever been to a tornado so a sense of inexperience creeps in!

Anyway, I survived and the footage is quite spectacular all for people to see!

Jimmy

[budgiebreder]

i was there that day but i was in goonellabah at the time still we got a bit of hail from that storm.

and the one before it pumbled everything. it was 3 hits to lismore and surrounding areas that year.

hail

TORNADO

flood

what went on? any old way both the hailstorm and the tornado storm scared me like crazy and i was only on the edge of the tornado one! (a bit closer on the hail one)

btw amazing footage! on a scale of 1-10 (10 being most) how scared were you when you grabbed the camera?

[jimmydeguara]

The tornado did not scare me - I was hypnotised as suggested earlier in my comments - drawn into the tornado. It was not until I viewed the video later that I realised the scale of what was going on and how close things were!

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[budgiebreder]

really? well i guess you'd be kinda hypnotized by its beauty and power. me i'd be like you just a little scared. i tend to see fear in stuff fairly quickly compared with people i know so i'd be in love with a very scary storm. so you'd be what? 1 when it happened? and what now that you've seen the footage you took?

[Lywnis]

absense of fright because of danger is a sign that something is wrong with you ... its a natural response to go away from danger.Its our most basic instict that let us survive (... when somebody drops a nuke,i'll shut the F up :)) )

[WHFarm09]

Yikes! That was soo cool... But if I were you then, I'd be like ''See ya later, bitch!''

[panjshir14]

nice video sir hahah regards tariq from kellyville high school

[jimmydeguara]

Thanks Tariq - glad you enjoyed it!

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[Gerkin7]

It's not everyday you see a tornado in Australia up-close.

Thanks for uploading, enjoyed it very much.

[aus2045]

awesome mini-tornado there!

[tonzislandsandman]

ITS NOT A MINI TORNADO! Its at least an F1 - F2 on the Fujita scale. Never ever call something like this a MINI tornado. Mini tornado's are given names like that under 'MISUNDERSTOOD terminology', just like Penny Turtles (no such thing) and it'd be like calling a destructive thunderstorm a CYCLONE. Get the facts right.

[xyxrk10]

Here we go. The M word again. Fuck it annoys me. It is a real tornado dumb ass! No such thing as a mini tornado!

[Hollykate1995]

yeah, that was so scary!! i could see the blue flash from my house!

i was shitting myself. Just glad no one got hurt, except a few houses.

i cried when i saw the big fig tree down though, such a legendary figure of dunoon. That used to be the best tree for climbing... oh well, time to start a new.

[NZ216]

Very nice video footage and very game also to get so close to a tornado.

That looks to be about an F1 rating the way its throwing the debris around.

Remember there is no such thing as a mini tornado, the media just enjoy using that darn word.

The Term mini does not apply, smaller than and compared to what the ones in USA?

[Jamiesyme999]

not to soud lick a dicky knowitall(canthatbe avoided on youtube even?) but kinda sketchy being near the electic works there , I mean one stray mini vortice and things could have gotten really bad but then again Ive seen less than 5 in my lifetime and never remotly that close , just asking

[DontGoIn2TheWoods]

greetings from Gods garden!

[jimmydeguara]

I guess this is not a mini-tornado - it is a real tornado and it was rather strong too. Anyone caught in it could have been killed.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[tonzislandsandman]

EXACTLY!

[aus2045]

Well done, nice footage of that Mini-Tornado.

[jimmydeguara]

Hi,

Yes the tornadic storm occurred about 2 to 3 weeks after the hailstorm in Lismore (October 9th 2007).

It was also a savage storm. And yes, I was near the church immediately after it had been hit by the tornado and I was filming the house nearby that lost its roof in the tornado.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[daroxybabe]

I live in lismore, half an hour away from dunoon and i remember wen this happened.. I'm pretty sure it was the same week lismore got a freak hailstorm, but i dont think it was the same storm..

my parent freaked out wen he heard there was a tornado in dunoon tho coz we agist paddocks for our horses at the channon which isnt to far from there

(of course they were fine)

but i rememba going thru dunoon a few days afta this had happened.. the church looked like itd been bombed =/

[blowing66]

just wait i think we can get tornados because it depends how the wether is

[elan01]

we live 5 kms from there and ..well..glad it missed us in modanville

[kindbluey]

Awesome close up video footage. Quite rare in Australia indeed. I chase thunderstorms throughout central Victoria & have yet to spot a Tornado. Thankyou for Posting!

[YYZZZYYY]

That was way to close!

[blowing66]

i live in australia but i live in south australia so we dont get tornados but we get dust devils thank god w dont get tornados

[vrednie]

How about WRONG! Assuming your able to do an internet search, type in "Booleroo Tornado". Tornado's can and do occur anywhere here. look under the Bureau of meteorology website under "monthly significant weather events" A Keen eye will notice that most occur in Queensland during summer (The Bucca F4 Tornado 29 nov, 1992), and in winter in western Australia (Rockingham etc)

[blowing66]

i know that tornados can come from no where but south australia dosent get tornados but yes westen australia can get tornados but we dont so shut up

[vrednie]

I understand SA is full of bogans, but surely there must be some way you can correctly educate yourself on a subject your interested in. Give it a go, you might surprise yourself....

[bernarddwyer]

mate...

you have a a video of skyline in your favourites... who's the bogan here?

no need for your posts

[BretagneShrew]

having lived everywhere in Australia except Tasmania I can say that there are less bogans in south australia than there are anywhere else. also the bogan in SA congregate away from the rest of the population and stay in their own suburbs.

[BretagneShrew]

I have seen a tornado in country south Australia, it was week and not on the ground for very long. so yes, they do occur in South Australia, but not near Adelaide.

[blowing66]

well i live in whyalla and whyalla is near adelaide so yer that wat i mean

[julian042002]

good video

[tornadomad]

LOL THE FOR SALE SIGN! XD XD

[swollen4ever]

very close and 5 stars

[tightshorts3]

the full magnitude of the storm is quite brilliantly captured here, well done indeed!

[stormspinner1]

Jimmy,

Too close!  But awesome footage, five stars!

*StormSpinner1*

[NydusSageRyade]

O.O damn. nice power arc.

[wannagoodcar]

Do you teach at a school in Sydney Jimmy. If yes then I was at one of your High School Science Lessons when you told us. On the 3rd of June. I was the one that took the books

[micha8411]

Are you an incredibly good storm-chaser or are you incredibly lucky? I've seen tornados in Australia before, but they weren't proper ones. They were over the ocean. In one instance there were three at once.

[jimmydeguara]

To suggest this was luck - it definitely was. But there also was the correct windshear on that day to enhance tornadic development. I persisted with the storm with correct positioning. That is why I got very close - with the road network perhaps a little too close!

Jimmy Deguara

[DrunkenAngel04]

Jimmy that was flippen awesome!!

I live in Lismore but was down in sydney at the time and freaked when I heard about it! You dont expect it to happen here in australia, though i guess thats why it is said to be rare here..

I spose, there are alot of twisters here in aus, though few are rarely seen or experienced because of our vast outback range??

[cgman2]

Tornados can happen anywhere in the world that you can find thunderclouds just not all thunder clouds get as powerfull as in some areas.

[CharginChuckBro]

Where Was This Tornado?what town was this ?

[jimmydeguara]

This tornado was near Dunoon, New South Wales, Australia. Yes this is an Australian tornado at very close range! Quite rare to get this close to a strong tornado anywhere let alone Australia.

[kane916]

wow i dident no there were tornados here

[CharginChuckBro]

thanks! this is a cool video.

[travisissexc]

yeha thanks for the vid jimmy :)

the wind sounds scary

[haroldtampa]

That is crazy. Wow. You can see the tornadoes twisting around one another. I hope none were injured.

[jimmydeguara]

From memory, nobody was injured - one of the positives of this tornadic event. The tornado affected some houses with minor damage - only a few buildings were badly or fully destroyed.

Jimmy Deguara

[qwerty222dgasdhafsdh]

Jimmy mate, how do you keep your cool? You could see the Tornado but not much, as it was a F1 or FO? So how you know which direction it was going to go? Keep up the good work mate.

[mdemaz]

might of been like a f 0 but jeez these things are rare down under.

[BeefyPorker25]

Austalia's largest tornado to date was, believe it or not, the Mary River tornado in the "tropical" Top End.

This tornado was classified an F-3 and totally mowed down Mary River Rangers Station, near Kakadu.

The event was caused by the early stages of Tropical Cyclone George's development within the monsoon trough, March 2007, which spawned massive supercells right across the Top End.

[jimmydeguara]

I don't believe it.

I can assure you that although that tornado was strong, the stronger tornadoes that have been recorded in Australia are within the F-4 and F-5 bracket. Respectively, they are the Bucca, Qld tornado November, 1992 and the Bulahdelah tornado January 1970. the Bulahdelah tornado produced a path width of up to 1.6km wide. I hope that helps.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[BeefyPorker25]

MARY RIVER..

The Bureau estimated that winds in the tornado were between 230 and 270 km/h, based on an assessment of damage to trees and caravans using the five-point Fujita Scale. BUCCA TORNADO..

Had a path length of 51km, with peak wind-speeds estimated at over 250km/h; however American meteorologists studying the event concluded that the wind-speeds could have topped 300km/h. (References, BoM)

I do admit if I'm incorrect :)

Hope to see more of your storm vids! :D

Thanks.

[jimmydeguara]

Ok,

Fair enough and great research.

Very difficult to get another apportunistic video.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[foley1207]

im so glad that you all find it great that he caught footage of the tornado. my parents live in a house straight across the road from the church that was destroyed. a friend live in the house that was compleatly damaged. my mum taught in the destroyed classroom for 6 years. so while your all 'glad' that there is footage,  and telling jimmy good luck, maybe you should think of those who lost every thing. have a heart

[jimmydeguara]

I understand your sentiments.

However, were anyone killed or injured? Did you read in any of these comments that people loved the damage that was caused?

Have you ever considered that footage of this quality is also used to for research purposes?I certainly hope that you appreciated that I was there and I tried to get a warning out to the Bureau of Metoeorology as a storm spotter (unsuccessful though I tried).

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[passiontwist]

Chasers don't make tornadoes happen. In fact often times we make reports that help get warnings out and save lives. I'm sorry for your loss, but your anger is being channeled in the wrong direction. Be angry at Nature, not chasers. Besides, this way you at least get to see what it was that happened, and maybe over time it will give you a better sense of understanding and/or closure.

[violentskiestours]

I'm an American Storm Chaser from Oklahoma, the so-called "Heart of Tornado Alley" here in the states. I know Jimmy personally, and I'll say that Australia is very lucky to have him. He has a heart, and as he stated, I'm sure he made every attempt to contact the Bureau of Meteorology to give the Warning Meteorologist what we call "Ground Truth" reports. He's out there to help protect and save lives folks, that is what he does.

[SLJ]

Definitly great footage. I'm really glad someone caught footage of the tornado. It was a hectic few days there.

[krypton66609]

the channon 4 life

[jimmydeguara]

The Channon I assume is nearby the township?

[thatkoltguy]

Wow, hats off to you jimmy finally australian tornado caught on film.

I've only been in Australia for 6 years, and Tornadoes dont seem to happen much here.

it would be alarming if Tornado appearances in Australia to become more and more common.

on top of that the effects of global warming.

[supercellstorm]

As filmed images precious and spectacular! I am delighted to video, to the tornado passed pretty close to where you were in the car, as I would enjoy tornadoes like you do, that hurts in Spain only have severe storms and tornadoes that do not exceed the scale of F3.

Greetings friend!

[jimmydeguara]

If yo have F3 tornadoes, we rarely exceed F2 and this one is no exception. It looks spectacular up close of course. BUt I estimate that the tornado could have produced up to F2 damaging winds.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[jayeveringham]

Good work Jimmy...

This surely is the pinacle of your fine work!!

[jimmydeguara]

This is by far the best footage I have captured of a tornado - or even of anything for that matter. And yes unfortunately I was too close - at the time things happened too quickly I could not seem to manage to absorb what was going on overall!

[wevets1]

still......what happened to the church was far worse.

[areyousatisfied]

Fantastic footage, Jimmy! :D

Was this rated an EF-1/EF-2, do you think?

Shame the media still continues to call them "mini-tornadoes". It irritates me to no end.

[jimmydeguara]

I showed the footage and photographs to an expert in the United States who has done many damage surveys. he puts hits as high end EF-1.

Regards,

Jimmy Deguara

[jimmydeguara]

I tell you what the tornado sound was just as spectacular as the explosion and the debris. Take note that there are small trees being picked up and thrown as well as meetal sheets. This is a strong tornado and you can see multivorticies rotating around the main vortex of the tornado!

Jimmy Deguara

[wernershmidt]

Jimmy, You are lucky mate. Who would have thought someone in Australia would catch a tornado on film, with rotating vortices, awesome footage.I was going to head off to the US next year on a twister tour, but might save my coin and head to Norther NSW instead !

Nice work mate.

[frenzix]

i live about 1 km from that substation at modanville.. just some strong wind here.. insane

[BeechSundowner]

Wow, little close for comfort!