KATHMANDU: Weather experts have said that the deadly windstorm that lashed at Bara and Parsa on last Sunday was ‘tornado’, Gorkhapatra daily highlighted.
According to an investigation carried out by a team led by Madan Lal Shrestha, senior meteorologist and professor at Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST), the devastating wind was ‘tornado’ that devastated Bara and Parsa of Province 2 on last Sunday.
Shrestha is the former Director General of Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD). Shrestha has been working in his capacity as the professor at NAST after having worked as a meteorologist for 46 years.
“A tornado is a violent storm that rotates down in contact with both the surface of the earth and a cumulonimbus cloud,” said Shrestha, adding, “It destroys whatever comes in its contact.”
The violent storm in Bara, as he described, blew away infrastructures including houses, uprooted trees, vehicles and pulled down electric poles, leaving 27 people dead and over 600 injuries injured.
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