Topic: Tornado in Colombia, north of Bogota

[Paul Graham]

It would be interesting to know the occurrence of tornadoes in this part of the world, but apparently they are very rare:  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a67_1188298943
This link is of a tornado that occurred August, but apparently there was another one that occurred a day or two ago.  They are still considered extremely rare for this part of the world.
This is a link to the more recent one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7080000/newsid_7082400/7082424.stm?bw=nb&mp=wm&news=1

[Paul Graham]

Bogota is at 4.6 degrees north of the equator and at an elevation of 2640m above sea level.  Apparently, only a few days ago they had a massive hail storm (interestingly, the report also mentioned snow with the hail).  Interesting at this lattitude being so close to the equator.  The elevation obviously has helped.  But with the tornado...that must be pretty rare for that region.

[Richary]

The hail looked pretty impressive on the BBC video. Just looked at the latest one for the tornado. Interesting as while it was obviously quite strong - pulling bits of roof a long way into the air, at some of the shots it looked more like a willy willy with no obvious rain or condensation funnel. Just a huge spiral of debris.

Perhaps one of the more experienced people here can comment on it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7080000/newsid_7082400?redirect=7082424.stm&news=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1&asb=1