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Umm, it was well south of Perth, at Rockingham, which has the local nick-name of "Tornado Alley" anyway. They regularly get tornados each winter down there, and no one is quite sure why that area gets more than others. It was only a little one, a few years ago we had an F2 go through Fremantle, now that was a story!
Tornados are actually common around Australia - Victoria also get a few and Queensland is known for spawning some biggies - but because there isn't a big population here they don't get as much press. The worse thing is the media makes it worse by calling them 'mini-tornados' as if the USA is the only palce that gets them, but if you look hard enough Europe, China (I think?) and Australia also get them. I've seen impressive pics of tornados in Spain and the Netherlands in the past, plus there have been well publicised stories of tornados in the UK recently too.
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