FREAKY FACTS... wildly whirling winds

1) The world's deadliest tornado hit Bangladesh on April 26, 1989, in Bangladesh. As many as 1300 people were initially reported killed and 12,000 injured as a tornado cut a 13km-long track, up to 1.6kms wide.
2) Three out of four tornadoes in the world, hit the United States.
3) The fastest-spinning tornado ever recorded hit Wichita Falls, Texas, on April 2, 1958. It reached speeds up to 460km/h. This puts it in the “inconceivable” or F6 range on the Fujita scale.
4) In New Zealand, which is in the Southern Hemisphere, tornadoes rotate clockwise. In the Northern Hemisphere they spin anti-clockwise.
5) Hundreds of dead ducks fell from the sky 40kms away from the end of a tornado that whirled through Great Bend, Kansas, on November 10, 1915. That twister was so strong that debris from the town was found 137km away.