Historical Tornado Tracks for
Bangladesh
and East India
Jonathan
D. Finch
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Elevated
Mixed Layer
Convective
Outlooks for Bengal
Special
Cases for the United States
Bengal
Tornadoes--background information
Meteorological
Charts for Historical Tornado Cases for Bengal
Latitudinal
Comparison of the Geostrophic Wind Approximation
Assessing
Instability on the Front Range Without Upper Air Data
Potential
Temperature and Mixing Ratio--Contributions to CAPE on Elevated Terrain
As
stated in the climatology section of my web site, Ashraf Dewan and I have
documented over 80 tornadoes for Bangladesh
and east India. On this site, I am attempting to document the exact tornado
paths of these tornadoes. I have plotted 24 out
of 85 tornadoes so far for the Bengal region. The base map for this work
was taken from the Lonely
Planet Road Atlas for
the Bengal region. The original maps were in color and higher resolution.
This "big map" is a work in progress, and will be
updated as time permits. This is the first in a series, and covers most
of Bangladesh except for the extremities, and parts of
extreme eastern India. Tornado track maps to come will include the Assam,
Meghalaya, Tripura and Orissa states of India,
as well as far northern, southern and southeastern Bangladesh. This is
a difficult and time consuming process, especially
since many villages and thanas in the region are hard to find on any map
that I have access to. I found a few detailed maps
at the University of Oklahoma Geologic Library, and these do have many
small thanas and villages. But these maps do not
cover all of Bangladesh. This page will also provide newspaper accounts
for each tornado case. This map covers much of
Bangladesh and extreme east India. I will be updating this map every
few days. Several other maps will be added in the
future that will cover the remainder of Bangladesh as well as coastal east
India and the Assam state India. The death tolls
from each tornado will be listed close to the path or the date, whichever
is convenient.