Are there tornadoes in Asia?
Asia. Bangladesh and the eastern parts of India are very exposed to destructive tornadoes. Bangladesh, the Philippines, and Japan have the highest number of reported tornadoes in Asia.
Tropical cyclones that originate in the East (mostly over the western Pacific and northern Indian Ocean) are called typhoons.
In fact, tornadoes have been documented in every state of the United States, and on every continent, with the exception of Antarctica (even there, a tornado occurrence is not impossible). In fact, wherever the atmospheric conditions are exactly right, the occurrence of a tornadic storm is possible.
Tornadoes form almost exclusively in the mid-latitudes—between 20° and 60° north and south of the equator—where warm air from the tropics mingles with cooler air from the poles, and have been recorded on every continent on Earth except for Antarctica (which lacks the aforementioned warm air).
Various statistical characteristics of tornadoes and waterspouts have been examined: 1) On average 20.5 tornadoes and 4.5 waterspouts occur per year in Japan. 2) Tornadoes occur most frequently in September and least frequently in March.
An apparent tornado is recorded to have struck Tlatelolco (present day Mexico City), on August 21, 1521, two days before the Aztec capital's fall to Cortés.
The common name is tropical cyclone. In East Asia, we call them typhoons; in the Atlantic and northeastern Pacific, they're known as hurricanes; while in the southeastern Indian Ocean they are labeled cyclones.
Widest tornado: El Reno, Oklahoma, May 31st, 2013
Tornadoes that are over 1 mile wide are rare, and over 2 miles wide are almost unfathomable. The one that hit El Reno, Oklahoma in 2013 was 2.6 miles wide.
Several climatological studies of tornadoes for the Indian subcontinent have been carried out. The most comprehensive works were by Petersen and Mehta (1981), which documented 51 possible tornadoes across Bengal, 18 of which killed 10 people or more.
Tornados. Storms with high and robust winds can happen in Vietnam, creating a raging tornado among heavy rainfall. Even though you might not associate tornados with a country like this one, they do occur and can have terrible aftermaths.
Is there tornado in Philippines?
A rare tornado hit Metro Manila, Philippines at around 4:30 p.m., local time, on August 14, 2016, amid floods and heavy rains caused by the southwest monsoon, which affected the island of Luzon. This was the second time in recorded history that a tornado struck the metropolis.
Other tornadoes were recorded in 1945 in Moscow and in 1951, 1956, 1970, 1971, 1984 (during the tornado outbreak of 9 June), 1987, 1994, and 1997 in Moscow Oblast 100 km south-east from Moscow (near Zaraysk).
Several climatological studies of tornadoes for the Indian subcontinent have been carried out. The most comprehensive works were by Petersen and Mehta (1981), which documented 51 possible tornadoes across Bengal, 18 of which killed 10 people or more.