A tornado is a destructive rotating column of air extending from a cloud to the ground. It may kill people and damage property. Also there are possibilities of derailment of trains. Some train-turnover accidents are suspected to have been caused by tornadoes in Japan. For instance, a train of the JR Uestu line was overturned by a gust in 2005. According to the accident analysis, a tornado or downburst probably generated the gust (Aircraft and railway accidents investigation commission: Railway accident analysis report RA2008 -4 (2008), (in Japanese), [1]). In 2006, a train of the JR Nippo line was overturned by a tornado (Aircraft and railway accidents investigation commission: Railway accident analysis report RA2008 -6 (2008), (in Japanese), [2]).
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Obara, K., Krajnovic, S., Minelli, G., Basara, B., Okura, N., & Suzuki, M. (2019). Large eddy simulation of a tornado flow around a train. In ERCOFTAC Series (Vol. 25, pp. 587–593). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04915-7_77
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