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BAMOS
Sept 2017
Reconstruction of the tornado path The Aftermath
The articles in The Sydney Morning Herald of 28 March and
the Australian Town and Country Journal of 4 April contained
detailed accounts of locations that were struck by the tornado
and I have plotted these onto a modern map of the area (Figure
4). Today’s Pacific Highway was known as Lane Cove Road
back in 1906, but apart from that nearly all the other locations
mentioned carry the same names as today. Local citizens, shocked at the devastation, organised a relief
fund for the victims and one of the main features of this was
a “Tornado Concert” that was held on 23 April at the North
Sydney Masonic Hall.
The path of the tornado appears to have been from the
northwest to southeast, beginning near St. Leonards and
extending down to Lavender Bay in close to a straight line along
the North Shore Ridge. Mr Patrick Toomey was killed when
struck by flying debris at Naremburn, on the northwest side of
the path. Each black dot is a locati