Tornado Hits Ulladulla, Australia | 29 Buildings Damaged & Walls Torn Off Houses

On Saturday the third of October a tornado went through the centre and the harbour of Ulladulla, on the South Coast of New South Wales. A café's security camera recorded it, the Bureau of Meteorology logged the gusts, and the State Emergency Service and the local newspaper each counted the damage — and their counts are not the same. This bulletin reads those reports side by side: what the Bureau called the tornado, what the emergency service found in the houses, and what the wind did at the harbour's edge.

0:00 The label and the damage
3:09 The storm chain that day
4:23 The calls for help
5:30 The warning and the wind
6:47 The tornado on camera
7:17 Tornadoes on this coast
8:28 How it took walls off
10:14 Helen Townsend at the window
10:59 The clean-up clock
12:01 At the harbour's edge
12:34 What comes next

Should a tornado that leaves homes uninhabitable still be classed as sub-severe?