Excluding “dust devils” and “water spouts” is the USA the only country to have Tornados? I don’t seem to see any reports anywhere else.
Canada gets wholloped several times a year with Tornados. Back in the late 80s (1986?) Edmonton, the capital of Alberta, got nailed with a Tornado and it killed several people.
A few years ago, a large camp ground/resort in Central Alberta (Pine Lake) got wiped out by a Tornado.
I live in North Central (by looking at a map) Alberta and I see funnel clouds every year up here. Some touch down, but almost always in unpopulated areas.
Nope, Canada has them quite often. In fact there was one just north of where I live last year (about five miles). It’s just that the frequency of occurence and severity aren’t as high as they are in the United States.
In 1987 one hit the city of Edmonton and killed 27 people. For more information go here :http://datalib.library.ualberta.ca/tornado/chapt1.html
There was also a severe tornado (F3) that hit a campground at Pine Lake Alberta in July 2000, killing 12 people.
There was also a rare tornado sighting in England in January of last year.
Keith
I have personally known two people who’s farms have been hit by tornadoes.
They happen all over the world, but I guess the news media will only report ones local to you. Also, I believe the ones in the US are bigger and scarier than in most other places. And the US seems to have more trailer parks. 
Here’s a UK tornado site: Tornadoes in the UK.
Damn…do a bit of research and I get scooped…btw the storm that spawned the Edmonton tornado died around my aunt and uncles’s farm, they got an estimated eight to twelve inches of rain in the aftermath.
Keith
Ouch! Now that hurts.
Cecil Adams on: Do Tornadoes Only Occur in North America?.
A tornado hit ONE house in the middle of Los Angeles’s suburbs (an inccredibly rare place for them to pop up). Thenn vanished. Wha-bam. You don’t get a much more direct (insert string of inappropriate words)ing from god than that.
This site states that tornadoes are quite common in India, and Bangladesh. Of course, what natural disaster doesn’t befall Bangladesh? They probably get blizzards (when in isn’t monsooning, that is).
I MUST refine my seaching skills…i just seached “tornados”. Why didn’t my Straight Dope seach find this link? I guess that is a new question.
Because of the spelling difference/error involved - probably if you’d searched only on “tornado”, it would have come up for you.
Probably because the first sentence of the second paragraph of Cecil’s reply doesn’t make sense.
Hey yeah you’re right; it’s a fragment. And I think that “moist” is misspelled two sentences later. Gee, I wonder why nobody caught that.
Maybe you just Dan Qualyle’d it.
I do it all the time. Tornaodoes. 
BTW- I’m not picking on you. I just couldn’t resist.
I would also agreee with whomever said that tornadoes might just be bigger here. Aw, hell. I’ll even agree with the trailor park comment. I was in the big F5 tornado in OKC a few years ago. I must say that one would have recieved worldwide coverage no matter which country it hit.
Yep, the Tornado that decimated the camp/ground at Pine Lake was dreadful. Mrs. eNiGma’s folks farm just west of there, so we were pretty well acquainted with that one. Bernse, Odieman, do either of you remember what the rating on the tornado that Evergreen Trailer Park in Edmonton was? I may have missed it in that article, but I didn’t seem to see it there.
For a graphic representation of North America’s tornado alley, I point you toward this map.
It’s not just “the media,” jjim.
Fair point, and I should clarify: when there’s a tornado in the UK, because they’re so rare, it’s always big news (and UK tornadoes are usually comparatively puny). If there’s a big one in the US, it makes national news in the UK, too, but if there’s one in Russia or wherever, we don’t tend to hear about it. I’m guessing that, since they’re so common in the US, tornadoes outside the US don’t tend to make the US news.
Well, since Ed Zotti is Cecil’s editor, we know who to blame.
Well, since the both of you are from Chicagoland, …
It’s been nice knowing you Ferret Herder.
No, those rumors that my Italian-American husband is part of “The Outfit” are just that, rumors. Besides, I’d never do that to Ed.
Oh, is that not what you meant?