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[00:00:09] CCTV.
[00:00:33] As a tornado swept through late at night, a man on the 12th floor was blown out of the window
[00:00:36] .
[00:00:37] The house collapsed, and the masses were in danger
[00:00:42] . Without any warning, a violent storm instantly swept through the entire street, and the night market turned into
[00:01:48] a mess. The survivors
[00:01:52] still remember the shocking scene with lingering fear.
[00:01:55] There was no chance
[00:01:59] to react.
[00:02:30] In this rare extreme weather, the thrilling scene experienced by the street vendors
[00:02:33] was just a microcosm of this disaster.
[00:02:37] Not far from this night market, in a residential community,
[00:02:41] the tornado that night suddenly struck,
[00:02:45] and a man was even blown directly from the 12th floor
[00:02:48] out of the window, falling downstairs
[00:02:51] . At around 8 p.m. on July 6, 2026,
[00:02:54] Huang Gang was the first to witness it among some residents
[00:02:58] living in high-rise buildings in Huangzhou District.
[00:03:13] The tornado, accompanied by a roaring sound, rushed into the urban area,
[00:03:17] and sparks constantly
[00:03:20] erupted
[00:03:24] wherever it passed. Like many local residents, Ms. Li, who lives in a certain community in Huangzhou District,
[00:03:27] never thought
[00:03:30] that an unexpected disaster would suddenly befall them.
[00:03:33] Shortly after the incident, Ms. Li, still in shock, accepted a media
[00:03:37] interview
[00:03:37] .
[00:03:46] At around 8 p.m. that night, Ms. Li, who lives on the twelfth floor, and her husband Mr. Zhang
[00:03:50] had just finished dinner. Mr. Zhang was sitting on the sofa
[00:03:53] in the living room watching TV, and Ms. Li was putting her baby to sleep
[00:03:57] in the bedroom. The couple had no idea that a tornado
[00:04:01] was heading towards their residential building
[00:04:03] .
[00:04:08] At first, the couple only heard an unusual wind sound.
[00:04:12] Before they could react, within a few seconds, the strong wind
[00:04:15] carried debris and shattered the floor-to-ceiling window
[00:04:19] of their living room
[00:04:20] .
[00:04:29] Heard.
[00:05:42] The living room was completely emptied, and what was most unexpected
[00:05:46] was that Mr. Zhang, her husband, who was originally in the living room, was also gone.
[00:05:50] I looked for my husband in every room but couldn't find him. I don't know where he is.
[00:06:55] Mr. Wang quickly opened the door, rescued Ms. Li and the child. Without catching his breath, he immediately rushed to the stairwell, ran from the 12th floor to the first floor, and urgently searched for his cousin whose life was hanging in the balance.
[00:06:59] Finally, he found
[00:07:03] Mr. Zhang, who was already barely alive, in a pile of green debris
[00:07:05] .
[00:07:34] All were shattered by the strong wind. Many affected families did not have time to repair, and could only temporarily seal the windows with tarpaulins. The window
[00:07:38] in the distance is Mr. Zhang's home. Mr. Zhang's cousin, Mr. Wang, accepted a media
[00:07:41] interview.
[00:08:43] An adult falling from the 12th floor, the hope of survival is slim. Fortunately,
[00:08:47] Mr. Zhang was blocked by a trash can during his fall,
[00:08:50] and the impact was partially absorbed. After being rescued,
[00:08:54] Mr. Zhang was diagnosed with a broken spine and brain injury, and multiple fractures
[00:08:58] throughout his body. He has been receiving treatment
[00:09:01] in the intensive care unit. The man was caught in
[00:10:55] I just ran out.
[00:11:16] Brick. The broken glass made that sound. I thought at the time,
[00:11:20] did it explode, or was there an earthquake? This was the scene
[00:11:24] of the incident that night.
[00:11:30] It was the ruins left behind after the tornado swept through the Yuan District. The Wuliu Industrial Park covers
[00:11:34] nearly a hundred mu, mostly steel structure workshops, office buildings, and truck
[00:11:38] parking lots. In just a few minutes, the park was almost
[00:11:42] razed to the ground. According to the caller, there were no workers
[00:11:46] operating in the park that night, but a workshop collapsed on a row of low workers' dormitories,
[00:11:49] and a worker was trapped under the ruins, his life hanging in the balance.
[00:11:53] Is anyone
[00:12:26] there? Rescue workers arrived at the entrance of the last dormitory.
[00:12:30] The scene before them was despairing. We don't have
[00:12:34] anyone in the house either.
[00:12:37] In front of them, this small room of only seven or eight square meters, the roof had completely collapsed,
[00:12:41] and the ground was covered with thick tiles. The trapped man mentioned by
[00:12:45] the caller was nowhere to be seen. The brick and tile
[00:12:48] structure at the scene was already very deep. The person may have been
[00:12:52] buried, and the chances of survival may not be
[00:12:56] very high. Where was the trapped person? What was their condition
[00:12:59] ? Firefighters didn't have time to think and immediately started rescue efforts.
[00:13:03] Due to the conditions at the scene, large equipment could not operate, so they could
[00:13:07] only rely on experience and dig with their bare hands
[00:13:09] .
[00:13:13] Quickly dig him out. Our gloves, our fingers were worn out. As
[00:13:17] we dug and dug, suddenly the brick moved slightly.
[00:13:21] After seeing the head move, we felt that this person definitely had a strong hope of survival.
[00:13:25] The trapped person was still alive, with a weak breath. Everyone
[00:13:29] at the scene was shocked
[00:13:30] .
[00:13:36] The trapped man was found. But everyone quickly discovered that the man's entire
[00:13:40] body had been tightly wrapped by the huge plastic
[00:13:44] film that fell with the ceiling
[00:13:46] .
[00:13:49] The thick plastic film, along with the collapse of the ceiling, completely
[00:13:53] covered the trapped person.
[00:14:26] The trapped man looked to be less than 30 years old, with a pale face and confused
[00:14:30] consciousness. After continuous clearing by firefighters, the man's upper
[00:14:33] body gradually separated from the tiles, but his limbs were still
[00:14:37] buried by the debris, and one of his arms was crushed
[00:14:41] by a stone slab. The team members immediately adjusted the angle of force,
[00:14:44] lifting it bit by bit
[00:14:46] .
[00:15:37] The clothes were very heavy
[00:15:38] .
[00:15:42] It felt like it was already hit, and it felt like it was about to fall
[00:15:45] down. The trapped person was about to be rescued, when suddenly the wall
[00:15:49] behind them collapsed .
[00:16:04] At that critical moment, a firefighter was quick-witted. He immediately
[00:16:07] turned sideways and firmly propped up the wall with his arm, preventing
[00:16:11] secondary injury to the trapped person.
[00:16:27] As the man's feet were pulled out, the tense rescue finally came
[00:16:31] to an end
[00:16:33] .
[00:16:36] When we dug out the trapped person,
[00:16:39] he told us that he needed to breathe. This was the best news we heard
[00:16:43] . Because we found that the trapped person was slowly
[00:16:46] .
[00:16:49] Hundreds of pounds of jade slab pressed down on the trapped woman, and the rescue space was limited.
[00:16:59] a heavy heart, firefighters opened a life channel for the trapped
[00:17:02] person.
[00:19:07] Oh my. The entire area's broken arms and limbs were still
[00:19:11] tottering. The risk of secondary collapse had not been eliminated. The firefighter
[00:19:15] carefully carried the woman on his back, and with all his might, quickly evacuated
[00:19:19] this dangerous area
[00:19:21] .
[00:19:28] One foot deep, one foot shallow .
[00:19:32] Just a few meters out of the room, that suspended jade slab
[00:19:36] collapsed with a crash. Don't move.
[00:19:37] Don't move.
[00:20:06] A few days later, the reporter revisited the heavily damaged logistics park.
[00:20:10] The collapsed buildings and scattered debris seemed to still
[00:20:14] allow people to glimpse the shocking destruction of that night.
[00:20:30] The ceiling on the top floor has already completely collapsed. The ceiling on the second floor
[00:20:34] is made of jade slabs, and each jade slab weighs approximately
[00:21:20] . This rescued man, surnamed Huang, 27 years old, is a technician
[00:21:24] in the logistics park. He was diagnosed with a broken spine and multiple fractures
[00:21:27] of the pelvis. According to his recollection, he was working overtime in the dormitory
[00:21:31] when the collapse happened in a few seconds, and he had no time to react.
[00:21:50] She was trapped on the second floor of this office building. This woman's name is Zeng.
[00:21:53] The woman's husband said that his wife's injuries were serious and she was still recovering
[00:21:57] .
[00:21:58] According to the woman's husband,
[00:22:05] on the night of the incident, his wife went to the office to work overtime
[00:22:09] temporarily. The incident happened so suddenly that she had no time to escape. Fortunately,
[00:22:13] her phone just fell beside her, so she was able
[00:22:17] to send out a message . Thank them.
[00:22:40] What caused this tornado anyway? The reporter went to the Hubei
[00:22:44] Provincial Meteorological Bureau to seek an answer. So for
[00:22:47] an EF3-level strong tornado, its probability of occurrence is
[00:22:51] very rare. Basically, among 100 tornadoes, only
[00:22:55] six can reach this EF3 level. According to professional meteorological
[00:22:59] agencies, this tornado was rated as an EF3 strong
[00:23:02] tornado. This level of tornado itself is relatively rare, and its occurrence
[00:23:06] within a city is a low-probability event. Experts
[00:23:10] said that this was an extreme weather event caused by multiple
[00:23:14] meteorological factors. On the one hand, the residual circulation
[00:23:18] of Typhoon Mesaac and the southwest airflow
[00:23:21] on the periphery of the subtropical high formed a superposition over our province,
[00:23:25] thus forming a relatively strong warm and humid airflow. On the other hand,
[00:23:29] the cold air at the rear of the northeast cold vortex
[00:23:33] intruded, aggravating the instability of the atmospheric stratification,
[00:23:36] forming a strong updraft. At the same time, there was also
[00:23:40] a strong vertical wind shear at high and low altitudes in the eastern part
[00:23:44] of our province. First, in the horizontal direction, a rotating
[00:23:48] vortex tube was formed. Then, with
[00:23:50] the strong upward movement of the cumulonimbus cloud, this vortex tube
[00:23:54] was converted into a vertically accelerating rotating vortex tube
[00:23:57] . This formed the funnel cloud that we can see,
[00:24:01] which is a tornado. Despite encountering a rare strong tornado,
[00:24:05] after the disaster occurred, the local government and fire rescue team
[00:24:08] quickly launched rescue efforts to ensure the safety and well-being of the people,
[00:24:12] minimizing their losses. Currently, related facility repair work
[00:24:16] is being carried out in an orderly manner . Today we are going to.
[00:24:23] The guest invited is Professor Ning Zhanjin from the China Fire Rescue Academy. Hello, Professor Ning . We can see
[00:24:26] that this tornado that attacked Huanggang, Huangzhou District, Hubei Province
[00:24:30] was rated as an EF3 level
[00:24:34] . In fact, this level of tornado is very rare for us. Especially in inland
[00:24:37] cities, it is even rarer. So, according to your understanding, what typical
[00:24:41] characteristics does this type of tornado
[00:24:45] exhibit? If it sweeps into inland urban areas, what harm will it bring to buildings,
[00:24:49] including residents? Tornadoes are characterized by small scale, strong
[00:24:53] locality, and short duration, but they have huge
[00:24:57] destructive power. The size of a tornado is generally less
[00:25:00] than 100 meters. From its formation to dissipation,
[00:25:04] it often only lasts a few minutes to tens of minutes. But its maximum
[00:25:08] wind speed can reach 100 meters to 150
[00:25:12] meters per second. That is, 360 to
[00:25:15] 540 kilometers per hour. Compared with our high-speed rail,
[00:25:19] it is even
[00:25:21] faster than the speed of high-speed rail. Tornadoes often uproot large trees,
[00:25:25] overturn vehicles, and destroy buildings . Tornadoes will simultaneously
[00:25:29] cause power outages, elevator stoppages, gas leaks,
[00:25:32] water and smoke, internal leaks, and other secondary disasters,
[00:25:36] which are very serious. The center of a tornado
[00:25:40] is a downdraft, while its four walls are extremely strong updrafts,
[00:25:43] which can suck people, livestock, cars,
[00:25:47] etc. into the air. In this disaster, a resident on the 12th floor
[00:25:51] was blown out of the window, which was essentially
[00:25:55] caused by the strong wind's suction.
[00:25:58] So, if we learn about a tornado,
[00:26:27] return indoors, close doors and windows, cut off unnecessary power, close gas valves, merchants should cease operations,
[00:26:30] and quickly dismantle or
[00:26:34] lay down outdoor awnings,
[00:26:37] billboards, etc. Enterprises should cut off
[00:26:41] unnecessary power, gas pipelines, and organize
[00:26:44] all outdoor personnel to quickly evacuate indoors. We should
[00:26:48] find the nearest shelter and take evasive measures quickly. For example,
[00:26:51] if outdoors, observe the tornado's path
[00:26:55] in real time, and avoid its path . Find
[00:26:59] the nearest basement or lower floor quickly. If
[00:27:03] in a high-rise building, you should quickly go to
[00:27:06] a windowless room, bathroom, and internal corridor,
[00:27:10] away from doors, windows, balconies, and exterior walls
[00:27:14] . Today's program featured one heart-wrenching
[00:27:18] rescue scene after another, leaving a deep impression on us and also sounding a warning
[00:27:21] that inland areas can also experience extreme weather like tornadoes.
[00:27:25] Cities built with steel and concrete
[00:27:29] are not impregnable either. In addition to.