Tornadoes of Buenos Aires of 2012
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On April 4th, 2012, a strong storm system in the province of Buenos Aires affected most of the Greater Buenos Aires area, including Ciudad de Buenos Aires. The storm system killed 27 people, injured 893, and inflicted material damage valued at 275.5 million Argentine pesos.
History
According to the radar observations and preliminary reports by the National Meteorlogical Service of Argentina, the storm system took the shape of a bow echo that spawned four tornados, two F1 and two F2 twisters on the Fujita scale.[1]
For their intensity, level of destruction and peculularity, these storms are the most destructive to hit the Buenos Aires-La Plata metropolitan area in its history.[citation needed]
Affected areas
According to the final report by the National Meteorlogical Service, the phenomenon was classified as tornados. In some sectors the intensity was F1 and in others F2 with wind speeds up to 258 kilometers per hour.[citation needed]
The overall damages occured in an area about 40 km wide that extends from the western municipalities of Luján, Marcos Paz, and Glew to La Plata on the coast. The tornados formed south of Luján, some seven kilometers from Ruta Nacional 5.[citation needed]
On the same day was the second day of the Quilmes Rock music festival, taking place in the Estadio River Plate. In spite of everything, the headlining bands (Foo Fighters and Arctic Monkeys) did not suspend their respective shows.[citation needed]
Victims and damages
Eight people died in Buenos Aires and 18 died in the greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. One person died in the city of Santa Fe.[2]
In the first four days following the tornados, 5.5 million tree trunks and branches were withdrawn from the capitol city alone. More than 1400 roads were closed for days, some for weeks, due to blocakge by trees, poles or debris.[3]
Ten thousand people were left without telephone service, and one month after the tornados, four thousand people were still without service. A total of 79,760 trees fell or were destroyed, causing damage to 500 homes and some 400 cars. Many schools went without classes and many others were forced to relocate classes due to instability in the school building structures. In areas without running water, the destruction of the electrical grid left many people without pumpers, and they went without water in their tanks for weeks. In just Morón, 50 houses were completely destroyed while 800 lost their roofs.[4]
References
- ^ "Aniversario de los históricos tornados que afectaron Buenos Aires". Meteored.com.ar | Meteored (in Spanish). 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ "13 muertos por el tornado en Buenos Aires y el conurbano". Urgente24 - primer diario online con las últimas noticias de Argentina y el mundo en tiempo real (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ "Fue un tornado lo que azotó la ciudad". LA NACION (in Spanish). 2012-04-14. Retrieved 2023-12-22.
- ^ "Gobierno de Morón" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on May 12, 2013. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
Category:Storms Category:Climate of Argentina Category:History of Buenos Aires Category:History of Buenos Aires Province Category:2012 in Argentina Category:Tornadoes of 2012 Category:2012 natural disasters