2023 Wall-to-Wall Ride tornado

The 2023 Police Week Tornadoes is a tornado outbreak occurred from September 8 until September 22, 2023, peaking in the morning hours of September 16. In the middle of September 2023, eight humongous EF5 multiple-vortex tornadoes producing windspeeds of well over 300 mph (490 km/h) with a width of well over 2 miles (3.2 km) wide, touched down across Australian Capital Territory, Snowy Mountains and New South Wales. Bringing the national police week tornado outbreak's total death toll of around 450 people and injuring a total of around 13,800 people with a total EF5 tornado damage overall cost of $17.3 billion.

## **Before the main tornado**

On September 8 at 9:19 am, The first EF5 tornado was severe, touched down North-west of Braidwood, New South Wales with winds of around 425 mph (684 km/h; 190 m/s) and estimated to be 2.12 miles (3.41 km) wide, caused EF4 damage along with a 25.9 km (16.1 mi) path, more than 200 homes were severely damaged or destroyed, killing seven people and injured 146 others. The tornado touched down 22 km (13.6 miles) North-west of Newcastle near Hunter Region, New South Wales last night nine hours earlier.

Severe cold front was instantly defeated by the first tornado in the National police week outbreak, damaging winds leading to major damage in New South Wales and Victoria. peaking at 85 mph (137 km/h recorded at Mount Hotham.

On September 10, Another and second EF5 tornado was destructive, touched down 13 km (8 mi) North north-east of Cooma, New South Wales at 9:12 a.m. It was also considered a second frozen tornado of 2023 since June 21. The second EF5 tornado had a windspeeds of 517 mph (832 km/h; 231.2 m/s) and a width of around 4 miles (6.5 km) and perhaps slightly bigger. One person died of a heart attack and injured 80 others.

The third EF5 tornado was fast moving and very large, touched down 11.5 km (7.1 mi) South-east of Wagga Wagga, New South Wales during the anniversary of September 11 Attacks at New York in 2001 and the S11 Protest at Melbourne in 2000, produced winds of 387 mph (623 km/h; 173 m/s), none killed and injured more than 250 people.

On September 12, the fourth EF5 tornado was fast moving and very long-lived, touch down 7.5 km (4.6 mi) north of Goulburn at 10:33 a.m. recorded a windspeed of around 410 mph (660 km/h; 183.6 m/s) and grow to a width of 3.2 miles (5.17 km) wide lasted 33 minutes 43 seconds. A forward speed of the tornado moving at 72.3 mph (116.4 km/h) with a 65.4 km (40.6 mi) path, a hundred homes were destroyed, three people were killed and 353 people were injured.

## Fatalities

### Areas affected

Melbourne, Yarra Ranges, Mansfield, Falls Creek, Thredbo Village, Perisher Valley, Jindabyne, Cooma, Namadgi, Tuggeranong Canberra, Gundaroo and Goulburn. (Victoria, New South Wales and Australian Capital Territory)

### Damage

$4.17 billion

Before the significant tornado, A huge supercell cloud formed at 3:00 p.m. on September 12, 2023, the ocean temperature in Tasmanian sea would have heated to an unusual 143°C (290°F). Severe thunderstorm warning begins with flooding on September 13 with a daily rainfall of more than 1,000 mm (40 inches). On the same day another severe cold front has occurred within a week. On the next day there was more than 2,000 mm (80 inches) of extra more rain then a hail storm shortly at 10:30 a.m. Producing up to grapefruit sized hailstones with a diameter of 4.3" (11 cm), giving a two day rainfall totalled 3,366 mm (152.51 inches). On September 15, Severe thunderstorm warning for destructive wind gusts of up to 212 mph (341 km/h) has been issued that afternoon minutes after 4:00 p.m.

In the early morning of September 16. The fifth and most powerful EF5 tornado of the outbreak, also known as the **"Wall-to-Wall Ride Tornado"** or the **"Police Tornado"** was long-lived, unusually long-tracked and exceptionally violent, began to touch down 4 km (2.5 mi) North of Werribee, Victoria at 3:37 a.m. Melbourne CBD will be hit by another EF5 multiple-vortex tornado with only 7.52 miles (12.1 km) wide at its peak. however, measurements from mobile weather radars revealed supersonic winds up to 892 ± 4 mph (1,436 ± 6 km/h; 399 ± 2 m/s) measured in Victoria like Warburton. This followed a roughly similar track and width to the devastating 2020 Melbourne cup day tornado that flattened Greater Melbourne nearly three years earlier, which was moving really fast with an approximate forward speed of 63 mph (101 km/h; 28 m/s), and just as violent. The huge tornado caused major destruction in Williamstown, and dissipated 11 km (7 miles) North of Mansfield at 5:35 a.m. lasting 2 hours, 11 minutes, 55 seconds, the wedge tornado has killed 395 people and injured 8,911 others. The fifth twister has been reported as the longest tracked tornado in history. The tornadoes path length may have reached 742.5 km (461.4 mi) long, also the temperature inside the tornado may have plunged to –10.1°C (13.8°F) and a wind chill of –109.4°C (–229°F).

## **After the main tornado**

A few days later on the afternoon of September 19, the sixth EF5 tornado was a devastating, very fast moving and chaotic fire whirl, touched down 3.7 km (2.3 mi) South south-west of Batemans Bay or 6.2 km (3.9 mi) South-east of Runnyford, New South Wales, killing 36 people and injured more than 1,000 others. Despite the hot air temperature was measured at 34.3°C (93.8°F) at Moruya Airport, A peak width of 3.79 miles (6.1 kilometres) and producing a catastrophic 468 mph (754 km/h; 209.4 m/s) wind velocities, the sixth twister will become the largest fire whirl / fire tornado of all time history. Those smaller sub-vortices may have caused wildfires which burned the entire forest in Mogo. This fire tornado has caused a severe destruction in Mogo and Moruya, with an estimated forward speed of 64 mph (103 km/h) resulted in nearly $1 billion of overall damage.

Next day the seventh EF5 tornado was very powerful, touched down 10 km (6 mi) west of Bombala, New South Wales at quarter-past-eleven. A width of 2.72 miles (4.38 km) and wind velocities of up to 264.7 m/s (592 mph). No casualties were reported and four houses were completely swept away, and dissipated around 6.4 km (4 mi) south of Tombong.

And then on September 22 the final and last EF5 tornado of the police outbreak was 3.01 miles (4,848 metres) wide and very late in the afternoon, touched down 3 km (2 mi) west of Taree, New South Wales at 5:22 p.m. two people died of a heart attack and injured 73 others. And caused catastrophic damage in Bucca Wauka, Karatt, Krambach and Bootawa recording windspeeds of at least 235.3 m/s (526 mph).