List of Southern Hemisphere tornadoes and tornado outbreaks

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completeness. Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.

These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in the Southern Hemisphere.

Tornado Event	Date	Area	Tornadoes	Casualties	Notes
Brighton tornado	February 2, 1918	Victoria, Australia	3	>2 fatalities
Frankton - Hamilton tornado	August 25, 1948	New Zealand	-	3 fatalities, 80 injuries	F2 damages; 163 buildings and 50 businesses
Bulahdelah tornado	January 1, 1970	New South Wales, Australia	-	0 fatalities	Likely strongest Australian tornado
Kin Kin tornado	August 14, 1971	Queensland, Australia	-	3 fatalities	Likely deadliest Australian tornado
Brisbane tornado	November 4, 1973	Queensland, Australia	-	0 fatalities	Perhaps most destructive Australian tornado
Port Hedland tornado	December 17, 1975	Western Australia, Australia	-	-
Sandon tornado	November 13, 1976	Victoria, Australia	3	2 fatalities
Bucca tornado	November 29, 1992	Queensland, Australia	-	-	Among most intense Australian tornadoes

Event	Date	Area	Tornadoes	Casualties	Notes
Encarnación, Paraguay Tornado	October 25, 1965	Paraguay	-	-	100 homes destroyed
Vichadero, Uruguay Tornado	October 25, 1968	Uruguay	-	1 fatality, 12 injuries
San Justo, Argentina Tornado [1]	January 10, 1973	Buenos Aires Province, Argentina	-	54 fatalities, 350 injuries	Large, perhaps violent, tornado
Maravilha, Brazil Tornado	October 9, 1984	Maravilha, Brazil	-
Barranquilla, Colombia Tornado	September 15, 2006	Barranquilla, Colombia	1 tornado and later flash floods around the streets	13 injured people (including children)	Was an F3 tornado

Event	Date	Area	Tornadoes	Casualties	Notes
Johannesburg - Pretoria, South Africa Tornado	November 26, 1948	Highveld, South Africa	-	6 fatalities, 100 injuries	64 km track crossed major urban areas
Albertynesville, South Africa Tornado	November 30, 1952	South Africa	-	20 fatalities, 400 injuries
Paynesville, South Africa Tornado	December 2, 1952	South Africa	-	11 fatalities
Trompsburg, South Africa Tornado	November 5, 1976	Karoo, South Africa	-	5+ fatalities	Longest path ever measured in SA, 175 km, mostly through desert
Senekal, South Africa Tornado	September 15, 1988	South Africa	-	2 fatalities	Long track event
Mtata, South Africa Tornado [2]	December 15, 1998	South Africa	-	15 fatalities, 100 injuries	Tornado tracked through major urban area
Mount Ayliff, South Africa Tornado [3]	January 18, 1999	South Africa	-	25 fatalities, 500 injuries	120 km long track F4
Heidelberg, South Africa Tornado [4]	October 21, 1999	South Africa	-	20 injuries	100+ km path narrowly missed Johannesburg. Other damaging tornadoes reported from storms in the same area
Mpumalanga, South Africa Tornado Outbreak	September 9, 2002	Mpumalanga, South Africa	4	2 fatalities	Strong line of storms. Some buildings completely flattened

Grazulis, Thomas P. (1993). Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991, A Chronology and Analysis of Events. St. Johnsbury, VT: The Tornado Project of Environmental Films. ISBN 1-879362-03-1
--- (2001). The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3258-2

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