As I said in my earlier post of March 6 “March and Tornadoes” that tornadoes do form in March in Pakistan that only happens when a western disturbance is passing through the country, thus on March 19 a killer tornado hit the sports-manufacturing city of Punjab, Sialkot. Rainfall quantity could not be recorded since the tornado occurred in the remote villages of Sialkot. The villages included Machchraala, Chakraala and Buhadarpura. The winds of this tornado was 200 mph (322 kph), it was a F4 tornado on the Fujita scale.
Destruction by the tornado
It caused destruction in Naqadpur, Macharala, Eid-Gah, Dera Bhattian and Bahadarpur villages of Head Marala district of Sialkot. The houses were tore into pieces, electirc poles, trees, sign boards were uprooted and many people were buried alive. According to the local people of the village every thing went from grey to severe dark. One person said,”It was raining and winds were strong but then suddenly very intense thunder occurred and dark clouds started to touch the ground and within mintutes every thing (including tractors) was flying”. Atleast 20 people are dead with over 40 injured due to this storm.
How did the Sialkot tornado form?
It is really hard to tell what the quantity of rainfall was as there were no weather station in these villages. It seems that the “Lahore phenomenon” might have been the case in Sialkot as well. This is what might have happened;
As the western disturbance was passing over upper Punjab to India, which was bringing cold air from the west, if you remember there was already a warm heat wave present over Sindh and South Punjab. Both the air may have collided with each other over Sialkot which may have caused a intense super cell to develop, a super cell is a very tall and rotating thunderstorm that often produce hailstorm, flooding rain, high winds and tornadoes. The super cell may have produced the tornado and dissipated after passing over Sialkot due to unfavourable conditions. It must be noted that tornado lasted for 30 minutes. The storm started to develop at 1 pm and dissipated at 5 pm on March 19.
Past tornadoes in Pakistan
Tornadoes are not common in Pakistan but they do occur after 5 to 10 years moslty in March due to the interaction of cold and hot air in this month. Almost every tornado that hits Pakistan forms in Upper Punjab.
- On 10 March 1981, a killer tornado killed some 56 people and injured 600 people in Gujranwala and Sheikhupura districts of Punjab province.
- On 10 March 1985, a tornado killed 18 people in the northern areas of the country.
- In 1995, hundred people were reported to have been killed by a tornado in Pakistan.
- On 28 March 2001, a killer tornado killed 10 people and injured some 100 people in Chak Misran village near Bhalwal area in Punjab province. The tornado had surface winds greater than 75 mph. It uprooted electric poles and bill boards in the area.
- On 12 October 2006, a tornado formed near Rawalpindi in Punjab.
- Another Tornado hit Narang Mangi near Narowal city in Punjab province but no relevant data is available about this tornado.
What climatic impact will tornado leave for Pakistan?
Tornadoes do not cause any weather pattern to change but there is a theory that cycles of tornado years may reduce tropical cyclone activity in the country. If this is true then Karachiites are not going to witness a tropical depression this year.
Other factors behind Sialkot episode?
God is not happy with us
Many people believe that strange weather patterns and destructive weather are some of the signs from God that he is not happy with us. Some say these strange weather patterns are a warning signs from God and that the Judgement day is close.
The word “HAARP”
Many Pakistanis are blaming the HAARP for the tornado. It must be noted that Pakistanis came to know about HAARP since 2010 floods. Although no one can create weather sitting miles and miles away. But in this new world many people around the world blame HAARP for strange weather.
Strange weather events and Super moon
It is said that before and after super moon disasters struck the planent. Earthquake and tsunami did hit Japan week before the super moon and yesterday 6.0 magnitude hit Japan on the day of super moon, though scientist and expert have said that there is no relation between them. The tornado hit Pakistan also on the day of Super moon, so was it the super moon that caused the tornado?
Is it Global warming?
In February too a strange hailstorm hit Lahore that was intense and long-lived. Now once again a city of Punjab have witness an unusual tornado, before that Balochistan province witness some winter flash floods. The heat wave in Karachi was about to break the previous March temperatures. Is Global warming once again targeting Pakistan?
Check this to see the tornado in Sialkot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTjR6FzJGQI&feature=player_embedded & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiPdNXkIvUE&feature=related
Pakistan Weather Portal 
me think moon to be blamed
Its abnormal in this sense that these occur every 5 to 10 years. But they do occur so I will not say its because of Global warming.
I also think the super moon is to be blamed.
A 6 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, tornado in pak and Indonesia volcanic eruption..all of them happened on the day of super moon…makes me wonder if there is a relation.
I think they may be related. Richard Nolle earlier did predict such things happening after the super moon. NASA denies this, but maybe they don’t know too much about it.
No, I think it was the western disturbance, cannot be the moon. If it was the moon, then its very confusing.
What is the HAARP station?
good info here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Frequency_Active_Auroral_Research_Program
It could be possible that super moon does cause these events on earth
That doesn’t make any sense, must be a coincidence
Well, it could be a cioncidence…but in the past too strange weather events happened around super moon..
The western disturbance and the heat wave over Sindh is a better explanation.
From every point of view there is a different story..But I agree that the hot air and cold air is the real reason for the tornado.
This is neither global warming nor super moon. Heavy rains to cyclonic winds are common in all over pakistan except karachi and its province. This is true that cyclonic winds are harmful and causes damages and we do not want it but i do not know one thing that karachi even cannot get meaningful rains even cannot get some amount of rains which is necessary. Big cities like karachi atleast must have rains like lahore or gilgit or Colombo.Whole next week there is a rains forecast for NWFP TO QUETTA AND KASHMIR and i know even punjab may get rains but karachi will never get rains like these locations and which is unable to understand. There is No date available on which cities like Gilgit will get frequent sunshine forecast.It seems that rains over NWFP will never stop and rains over karachi and sindh will never start
I think its a good omen than Karachi doesn’t get heavy rains, its an industrial city, not agricultural and secondly, the drainage system of karachi roads is awful, heavy rains will end up doing more damage than good.
You are right….
what is the impact of western disturbance on Monsoon?
An earth quake just hit Punjab, its all the super moon I guess! All this cannot be a coincidence
Yesterday a 5 magnitude earthquake hit Thailand too…
I am telling you, this is all because of super moon. Way too many such coincidences happened in the last 10 days.
We just have to wait for another super moon ito see if there is actually a link…
What is the relationship between western disturbance and south west monsoon?
Can anyone say that western disturbance was also caused 2010 pakistan floods?
A monsoon low and western disturbance collided with each other…
God? Super moon? HAARP?! These comments all provide further evidence that the only thing that separates us from the animals is superstition and pointless ritual!
” If this is true then Karachiites are not going to witness a tropical depression this year.”
awww, why should Karachiites should suffer because of Tornado which hit 1300 KM away in Sialkot Distt.. 😦
Meteorology (Science) yahan pak mein buht rare hai . babar sahb shukriya ke aap ne is hawale se yeh Portal shru kiaya hai . thanks . mujhe bhi aap jitni to nahi lekin kuch kuch is mousamyaat mein delchaspi rahi hai . mere ghar wale mujhpe hanste hain aur mujhe mehekma e mousamyaat bulate hain . whatever aata jata mujhe kuch nhai hai . ab aapse hi seekhna chahonga . please . kher aapka ek baar phir shukriya .
ap kahan rehtay ho?
Tornado mujhe kuch yaad aata hai ke TV pe bataya gaya tha kisi january ke mahine mein shayed 2001 ya 2002 koi saal tha . khabar suni thi ke Karachi ke bahr highway ki taraf bagolon ne tabaahi macha di . kai dehat mit gae . aur logon ne TV pe kha tha ke aasman achaanak gehra buht gehra hua phir buht tez aawaz aur shor sunai diya phir …
please is khabar ki tardeed ya tasdeeq kijiye . if possible !
There was a tornado in 2001 in the northern areas while I have also heard about the highway tornado near Karachi.