DAULATPUR SUTARIA TORNADO (1989)

TORNADOES

• A tornado is formed when warm, moist air and cool, dry air collide. The different airs then start spinning around each other at a rapid speed and forms a tornado.
• Tornadoes only form on ground and cannot form in the ocean.
• Tornadoes are large spirals of wind connected from the ground to a cloud, that can cause a huge amount of destruction.
• Tornadoes can form in such little time as 15 minutes or as long as 1 hour.

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PEOPLE AFFECTED

• Approximately 1 300 people died from the strong winds and debris of the tornado.
• 80 000 people were left homeless as their homes were destroyed.
• 12 000 were injured by the debris or wind of the tornado.
• The total cost of the wreckages that the tornado caused is still unknown, however, we can safely assume that it must be a lot.
• Around 75 thousand homes were destroyed.

GENERAL FACTS

• The Daulatpur-Sutaria tornado was estimated to be approximately 1.6 kilometres wide.
• It travelled about 80.5 kilometres before stopping.
• 6 square kilometres in every direction of the tornado's path, everything was destroyed
• Some witnesses claimed that the tornado left no building or structure standing near it's path.
• Wind speeds reached from 179 to 349 kilometres per hour.

MORE GENERAL FACTS

• This event happened on April the 26th 1989 at around 18:30pm (local time).
• People were not prepared for a tornado. There was a forecast of strong winds on the day but no one predicted that a tornado as big as this would form.
• The tornado was connected to an extremely large, low-flying cloud.

WHERE?

• The tornado first moved east through Daulatpur and then travelled in the the north-east of Saturia.
• The tornado mostly affected the slums and poor areas of Bangladesh.
• Saturia and Manikganj were both fully destroyed by the tornado that ran through Dhaka.

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FUTURE

• Although the actual cost of repairing the wreckages is unknown, we do still know that it must have costed a lot.
• Although this tornado happened nearly 30 years ago, Bangladesh and Dhaka may still need help with rebuilding.
• Predictions state that it may take up to 30 years after the event for the people affected to fully recover (even eith the help provided).
• People living in these areas will most likely need to rebuild. Their possessions may also be lost.

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MORE SOURCES

• Weather Wiz Kids n.d., Tornadoes, accessed 26 May 2016, .