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2 September 2013
Tornado Strikes Tokyo Suburbs
CBS has more on it here. It was a very warm day in Tokyo with a dewpoint of 25C! It could have been a land-spout, but a look at the upper air maps makes me think that this was most likely a real “Great Plains” like tornado. Plenty of wind shear and instability.