title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: The Woman in Red is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by and starring Gene Wilder. Wilder also wrote the script, adapting it from the Yves Robert film "Pardon Mon Affaire" ("Un éléphant ça trompe énormément"). It co-stars Charles Grodin, Gilda Radner, Joseph Bologna, Judith Ivey, and Kelly LeBrock. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "I Just Called to Say I Love You", written and performed by Stevie Wonder.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: San Francisco advertising man Theodore "Teddy" Pierce is amused by, then infatuated with Charlotte, a beautiful woman whose red dress goes billowing over her head by a gust of wind from crossing over a ventilation grate, and exposing her red satin string bikini panties. Despite his interest, Teddy is already happily married to Didi, but he cannot get this woman out of his mind. When his friend Joe, who has an affair of his own, is abandoned by his wife, who leaves with everything, Teddy gets cold feet and decides to forget it. Still, when he tells his friends Buddy, Joe, and Michael, they encourage him, and after meeting the woman again through his office window, he tries to ask her for a date, but mistakenly phones Ms. Milner, a plain ad-agency employee who is flattered by his interest.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: From the beginning, his attempts at an affair are doomed, as he creates a charade to get to the date, but Didi tells him that their neighbor told them to take care of her small boy. Ms. Milner gets her revenge by bending Teddy's car antenna and scratching his car. Ms. Milner later tries to make amends, but later when Teddy sees that she is the one who got the memo for the date, he flees, and once more she gets her revenge by letting go of Teddy's car brake, causing him to crash his car. Ms. Milner later acts amicably with Teddy, because she already started seeing another work colleague, much to Teddy's confusion. Charlotte later agrees to meet for dinner with Teddy after he steadfastly asks for one, but once again, his plans fail when he receives a call from Charlotte saying she is in Los Angeles working and to go meet her. He creates another charade by writing a fake telegram from work and sending it to himself, telling him to go to Los Angeles, but due to the airport being fogged in, his flight is detoured to San Diego.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: Teddy ultimately does become acquainted with the woman in red, a British model named Charlotte, going horseback riding with her (after finding out she rode horseback), and even inviting her out on what is supposed to be a date with his nanny, but turns out to be an early surprise party with his relatives and Didi. Teddy's friend Buddy, who goes along them lending his car and being a chauffeur after losing a bet with Teddy, rapidly creates an excuse so as to not arouse any suspicions. After Buddy, Joe and Michael create a ruse to take him to Charlotte, he radically alters his wardrobe and begins acting nonchalant to try to capture his love's interest.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: Events come to a head in Charlotte's high-rise apartment, where she invites Teddy into her satin bed. He is thrilled, as he is finally about to consummate his fantasy, until her airline pilot husband suddenly comes home. Trying to escape, Teddy ends up on a ledge, where passersby below gather as they believe he is about to take his own life, all captured on live television. Didi, while watching this on live television, tears up as she believes Teddy is doing this because of her own cheating. After hearing Charlotte making love with her husband, he decides that the affair is not worth it and jumps off the window ledge, and waits to be caught by the firemen. While falling, Teddy sees a lovely newswoman who smiles at him, perhaps hinting at another affair chase.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: In 1975, Wilder released his directorial debut, "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother." The film was a financial success, and was followed up in 1977 by "The World's Greatest Lover," again, a financial success. Between the two movies, the French film "Pardon Mon Affaire" was released, as well as its sequel "Pardon Mon Affaire, Too!"


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: 'The Woman in Red' was Wilder's first directed film in seven years. During that time he starred in the films "The Frisco Kid, Sunday Lovers, Stir Crazy & Hanky Panky."


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: The original motion picture soundtrack was composed by Stevie Wonder, with the exception of "It's More Than You" by Ben Bridges, and features performances by Wonder and Dionne Warwick. Wonder received an Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "I Just Called to Say I Love You."


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: The album reached number four on the US "Billboard" 200 chart, number one on the R&B Albums chart (for four weeks), and number two on the UK Albums Chart. It reached number one on the Italian, Spanish, and Swedish album charts.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: In the U.S. and Canada Kino Lorber released "The Woman in Red" on Blu-ray in 2017 with a trailer and an audio commentary track by critic and filmmaker Jim Hemphill. In January 2019 a German Blu-ray was released.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: The film gained publicity for Kelly LeBrock, a real-life model making her screen debut, particularly for the skirt-and-grate scene, a variation of Marilyn Monroe's iconic pose in "The Seven Year Itch".


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 32% based on reviews from 19 critics. On Metacritic the film has a score of 55 out of 100, based on reviews from 10 critics.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: Richard Schickel of "Time" wrote that the film was "one of this summer's more pungent pleasures, a well-made sex farce of classical proportions. If there is a horse to fall off or an airplane forced to land at the wrong airport, you may be sure Teddy will be aboard."


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: "Variety" wrote that "the laughs roll along readily as Wilder tries one idea after another to sneak out on wife Judith Ivey and family to rendezvous with Le Brock." Variety also praised Gilda Radner for her performance.


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: Jeff Stricker of the "Minneapolis Star-Tribune" said, "there is nothing deep or profound in this movie, but there are no pretensions, either. It is a light, summer-weight sitcom and a loving adaptation of its French predecessor, a pleasing 80 minutes that won't leave you hysterical, but will certainly amuse."


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: Kathleen Carroll of the "New York Daily News" had mixed feelings about the film, saying she thought it was "a giddy, reasonably funny farce, but its characters, especially Teddy's three infantile male buddies, are not nearly as well-defined as they were in the original French comedy."


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: A far more negative review came from Ralph Novak of "People", who said, "when it comes to criminal waste of time and talent, it would be hard to top this would-be romantic comedy, which Gene Wilder wrote, directed, and stars in"; he singled out the use of Stevie Wonder's songs ("having access to the ability of Stevie Wonder and trashing it in this way ought to be a capital offense"), and called it "spurious in the extreme" before adding that it "drones on through all the clichés of infidelity to a resolution that isn't emotionally, morally or comedically satisfying."


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" awarded the film only one star, and declared, "the only reason to watch the film is an occasional glimpse of the stunningly beautiful model Kelly Le Brock making her feature-film debut as the "femme fatale" who turns the head of the married milquetoast character played by Wilder." He dismissed the other central characters as "some kind of sick variation on the classic swinging California married man" and had even less positive things to say about the presentation of Gilda Radner in it:


title: The Woman in Red (1984 film)

text: Nancy Scoll of the "San Francisco Examiner" also awarded the film a one-star rating and said that it was "a classic example of a self-indulgent actor who should never direct or write [because] the script is embarrassing and the gags are clumsy."


title: Windows Registry

text: The Windows Registry is a hierarchical database that stores low-level settings for the Microsoft Windows operating system and for applications that opt to use the registry. The kernel, device drivers, services, Security Accounts Manager, and user interfaces can all use the registry. The registry also allows access to counters for profiling system performance.


title: Windows Registry

text: In other words, the registry or Windows Registry contains information, settings, options, and other values for programs and hardware installed on all versions of Microsoft Windows operating systems. For example, when a program is installed, a new subkey containing settings such as a program's location, its version, and how to start the program, are all added to the Windows Registry.


title: Windows Registry

text: When introduced with Windows 3.1, the Windows Registry primarily stored configuration information for COM-based components. Windows 95 and Windows NT extended its use to rationalize and centralize the information in the profusion of INI files, which held the configurations for individual programs, and were stored at various locations. It is not a requirement for Windows applications to use the Windows Registry. For example, .NET Framework applications use XML files for configuration, while portable applications usually keep their configuration files with their executables.


title: Windows Registry

text: Prior to the Windows Registry, .INI files stored each program's settings as a text file or binary file, often located in a shared location that did not provide user-specific settings in a multi-user scenario. By contrast, the Windows Registry stores all application settings in one logical repository (but a number of discrete files) and in a standardized form. According to Microsoft, this offers several advantages over .INI files. Since file parsing is done much more efficiently with a binary format, it may be read from or written to more quickly than a text INI file. Furthermore, strongly typed data can be stored in the registry, as opposed to the text information stored in .INI files. This is a benefit when editing keys manually using codice_1, the built-in Windows Registry Editor. Because user-based registry settings are loaded from a user-specific path rather than from a read-only system location, the registry allows multiple users to share the same machine, and also allows programs to work for less privileged users. Backup and restoration is also simplified as the registry can be accessed over a network connection for remote management/support, including from scripts, using the standard set of APIs, as long as the Remote Registry service is running and firewall rules permit this.


title: Windows Registry

text: Because the registry is a database, it offers improved system integrity with features such as atomic updates. If two processes attempt to update the same registry value at the same time, one process's change will precede the other's and the overall consistency of the data will be maintained. Where changes are made to .INI files, such race conditions can result in inconsistent data that does not match either attempted update. Windows Vista and later operating systems provide transactional updates to the registry by means of the Kernel Transaction Manager, extending the atomicity guarantees across multiple key and/or value changes, with traditional commit–abort semantics. (Note however that NTFS provides such support for the file system as well, so the same guarantees could, in theory, be obtained with traditional configuration files.)


title: Windows Registry

text: The registry contains two basic elements: keys and values. Registry "keys" are container objects similar to folders. Registry "values" are non-container objects similar to files. Keys may contain values and subkeys. Keys are referenced with a syntax similar to Windows' path names, using backslashes to indicate levels of hierarchy. Keys must have a case insensitive name without backslashes.


title: Windows Registry

text: The hierarchy of registry keys can only be accessed from a known root key handle (which is anonymous but whose effective value is a constant numeric handle) that is mapped to the content of a registry key preloaded by the kernel from a stored "hive", or to the content of a subkey within another root key, or mapped to a registered service or DLL that provides access to its contained subkeys and values.


title: Windows Registry

text: E.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows refers to the subkey "Windows" of the subkey "Microsoft" of the subkey "Software" of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE root key.


title: Windows Registry

text: There are seven predefined root keys, traditionally named according to their constant handles defined in the Win32 API, or by synonymous abbreviations (depending on applications):


title: Windows Registry

text: Like other files and services in Windows, all registry keys may be restricted by access control lists (ACLs), depending on user privileges, or on security tokens acquired by applications, or on system security policies enforced by the system (these restrictions may be predefined by the system itself, and configured by local system administrators or by domain administrators). Different users, programs, services or remote systems may only see some parts of the hierarchy or distinct hierarchies from the same root keys.


title: Windows Registry

text: Registry "values" are name/data pairs stored within keys. Registry values are referenced separately from registry keys. Each registry value stored in a registry key has a unique name whose letter case is not significant. The Windows API functions that query and manipulate registry values take value names separately from the key path and/or handle that identifies the parent key. Registry values may contain backslashes in their names, but doing so makes them difficult to distinguish from their key paths when using some legacy Windows Registry API functions (whose usage is deprecated in Win32).


title: Windows Registry

text: The terminology is somewhat misleading, as each registry key is similar to an associative array, where standard terminology would refer to the name part of each registry value as a "key". The terms are a holdout from the 16-bit registry in Windows 3, in which registry keys could not contain arbitrary name/data pairs, but rather contained only one unnamed value (which had to be a string). In this sense, the Windows 3 registry was like a single associative array, in which the keys (in the sense of both 'registry key' and 'associative array key') formed a hierarchy, and the registry values were all strings. When the 32-bit registry was created, so was the additional capability of creating multiple named values per key, and the meanings of the names were somewhat distorted. For compatibility with the previous behavior, each registry key may have a "default" value, whose name is the empty string.


title: Windows Registry

text: Each value can store arbitrary data with variable length and encoding, but which is associated with a symbolic type (defined as a numeric constant) defining how to parse this data. The standard types are:


title: Windows Registry

text: The keys at the root level of the hierarchical database are generally named by their Windows API definitions, which all begin "HKEY". They are frequently abbreviated to a three- or four-letter short name starting with "HK" (e.g. HKCU and HKLM). Technically, they are predefined handles (with known constant values) to specific keys that are either maintained in memory, or stored in hive files stored in the local filesystem and loaded by the system kernel at boot time and then shared (with various access rights) between all processes running on the local system, or loaded and mapped in all processes started in a user session when the user logs on the system.


title: Windows Registry

text: The HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (local machine-specific configuration data) and HKEY_CURRENT_USER (user-specific configuration data) nodes have a similar structure to each other; user applications typically look up their settings by first checking for them in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Vendor's name\Application's name\Version\Setting name", and if the setting is not found, look instead in the same location under the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE key. However, the converse may apply for administrator-enforced policy settings where HKLM may take precedence over HKCU. The Windows Logo Program has specific requirements for where different types of user data may be stored, and that the concept of least privilege be followed so that administrator-level access is not required to use an application.


title: Windows Registry

text: The key located by HKLM is actually not stored on disk, but maintained in memory by the system kernel in order to map all the other subkeys. Applications cannot create any additional subkeys. On Windows NT, this key contains four subkeys, "SAM", "SECURITY", "SYSTEM", and "SOFTWARE", that are loaded at boot time within their respective files located in the %SystemRoot%\System32\config folder. A fifth subkey, "HARDWARE", is volatile and is created dynamically, and as such is not stored in a file (it exposes a view of all the currently detected Plug-and-Play devices). On Windows Vista and above, a sixth and seventh subkey, "COMPONENTS" and "BCD", are mapped in memory by the kernel on-demand and loaded from %SystemRoot%\system32\config\COMPONENTS or from boot configuration data, \boot\BCD on the system partition.


title: Windows Registry

text: Even though the registry presents itself as an integrated hierarchical database, branches of the registry are actually stored in a number of disk files called "hives". (The word hive constitutes an in-joke.)


title: Windows Registry

text: Some hives are volatile and are not stored on disk at all. An example of this is the hive of the branch starting at HKLM\HARDWARE. This hive records information about system hardware and is created each time the system boots and performs hardware detection.


title: Windows Registry

text: Individual settings for users on a system are stored in a hive (disk file) per user. During user login, the system loads the user hive under the HKEY_USERS key and sets the HKCU (HKEY_CURRENT_USER) symbolic reference to point to the current user. This allows applications to store/retrieve settings for the current user implicitly under the HKCU key.


title: Windows Registry

text: Not all hives are loaded at any one time. At boot time, only a minimal set of hives are loaded, and after that, hives are loaded as the operating system initializes and as users log in or whenever a hive is explicitly loaded by an application.


title: Windows Registry

text: The registry is physically stored in several files, which are generally obfuscated from the user-mode APIs used to manipulate the data inside the registry. Depending upon the version of Windows, there will be different files and different locations for these files, but they are all on the local machine. The location for system registry files in Windows NT is codice_2; the user-specific HKEY_CURRENT_USER user registry hive is stored in codice_3 inside the user profile. There is one of these per user; if a user has a roaming profile, then this file will be copied to and from a server at logout and login respectively. A second user-specific registry file named UsrClass.dat contains COM registry entries and does not roam by default.


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows NT systems store the registry in a binary file format which can be exported, loaded and unloaded by the Registry Editor in these operating systems. The following system registry files are stored in codice_4:


title: Windows Registry

text: For Windows 2000, Server 2003 and Windows XP, the following additional user-specific file is used for file associations and COM information:


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows 2000 keeps an alternate copy of the registry hives (.ALT) and attempts to switch to it when corruption is detected. Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 do not maintain a codice_15 hive because NTLDR on those versions of Windows can process the codice_16 file to bring up to date a System hive that has become inconsistent during a shutdown or crash. In addition, the codice_17 folder contains a copy of the system's registry hives that were created after installation and the first successful startup of Windows.


title: Windows Registry

text: Each registry data file has an associated file with a ".log" extension that acts as a transaction log that is used to ensure that any interrupted updates can be completed upon next startup. Internally, Registry files are split into 4 kB "bins" that contain collections of "cells".


title: Windows Registry

text: The registry files are stored in the codice_18 directory under the names codice_19 and codice_20 with the addition of codice_21 in Windows ME. Also, each user profile (if profiles are enabled) has its own codice_19 file which is located in the user's profile directory in codice_23.


title: Windows Registry

text: The registry contains important configuration information for the operating system, for installed applications as well as individual settings for each user and application. A careless change to the operating system configuration in the registry could cause irreversible damage, so it is usually only installer programs which perform changes to the registry database during installation/configuration and removal. If a user wants to edit the registry manually, Microsoft recommends that a backup of the registry be performed before the change. When a program is removed from control panel, it may not be completely removed and, in case of errors or glitches caused by references to missing programs, the user might have to manually check inside directories such as program files. After this, the user might need to manually remove any reference to the uninstalled program in the registry. This is usually done by using RegEdit.exe. Editing the registry is sometimes necessary when working around Windows-specific issues e.g. problems when logging onto a domain can be resolved by editing the registry.


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows Registry can be edited manually using programs such as RegEdit.exe, although these tools do not expose some of the registry's metadata such as the last modified date.


title: Windows Registry

text: The registry editor for the 3.1/95 series of operating systems is RegEdit.exe and for Windows NT it is RegEdt32.exe; the functionalities are merged in Windows XP. Optional and/or third-party tools similar to RegEdit.exe are available for many Windows CE versions.


title: Windows Registry

text: codice_27 files (also known as Registration entries) are text-based human-readable files for exporting and importing portions of the registry using an INI-based syntax. On Windows 2000 and later, they contain the string "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" at the beginning and are Unicode-based. On Windows 9x and NT 4.0 systems, they contain the string "REGEDIT4" and are ANSI-based. Windows 9x format codice_27 files are compatible with Windows 2000 and later. The Registry Editor on Windows on these systems also supports exporting codice_27 files in Windows 9x/NT format. Data is stored in codice_27 files using the following syntax:


title: Windows Registry

text: String values do not require a <Value type> (see example), but backslashes ('\') need to be written as a double-backslash ('\\'), and quotes ('"') as backslash-quote ('\"').


title: Windows Registry

text: For example, to add the values "Value A", "Value B", "Value C", "Value D", "Value E", "Value F", "Value G", "Value H", "Value I", "Value J", "Value K", "Value L", and "Value M" to the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Foobar key:


title: Windows Registry

text: "Value E"=hex(1):<REG_SZ (as comma-delimited list of hexadecimal values representing a UTF-16LE NUL-terminated string)>


title: Windows Registry

text: "Value F"=hex(2):<Expandable string value data (as comma-delimited list of hexadecimal values representing a UTF-16LE NUL-terminated string)>


title: Windows Registry

text: "Value H"=hex(4):<DWORD value (as comma-delimited list of 4 hexadecimal values, in little endian byte order)>


title: Windows Registry

text: "Value I"=hex(5):<DWORD value (as comma-delimited list of 4 hexadecimal values, in big endian byte order)>


title: Windows Registry

text: "Value J"=hex(7):<Multi-string value data (as comma-delimited list of hexadecimal values representing UTF-16LE NUL-terminated strings)>


title: Windows Registry

text: "Value M"=hex(b):<QWORD value (as comma-delimited list of 8 hexadecimal values, in little endian byte order)>


title: Windows Registry

text: Data from codice_27 files can be added/merged with the registry by double-clicking these files or using the /s switch in the command line. codice_26 files can also be used to remove registry data.


title: Windows Registry

text: To remove a key (and all subkeys, values and data), the key name must be preceded by a minus sign ("-").


title: Windows Registry

text: To remove a value (and its data), the values to be removed must have a minus sign ("-") after the equal sign ("=").


title: Windows Registry

text: For example, to remove only the "Value A" and "Value B" values (and their data) from the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Foobar key:


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows group policies can change registry keys for a number of machines or individual users based on policies. When a policy first takes effect for a machine or for an individual user of a machine, the registry settings specified as part of the policy are applied to the machine or user settings.


title: Windows Registry

text: Through its "scope" a policy defines which machines and/or users the policy is to be applied to. Whether a machine or user is within the scope of a policy or not is defined by a set of rules which can filter on the location of the machine or user account in organizational directory, specific users or machine accounts or security groups. More advanced rules can be set up using Windows Management Instrumentation expressions. Such rules can filter on properties such as computer vendor name, CPU architecture, installed software, or networks connected to.


title: Windows Registry

text: For instance, the administrator can create a policy with one set of registry settings for machines in the accounting department and policy with another (lock-down) set of registry settings for kiosk terminals in the visitors area. When a machine is moved from one scope to another (e.g. changing its name or moving it to another organizational unit), the correct policy is automatically applied. When a policy is changed it is automatically re-applied to all machines currently in its scope.


title: Windows Registry

text: The policy is edited through a number of administrative templates which provides a user interface for picking and changing settings. The set of administrative templates is extensible and software packages which support such remote administration can register their own templates.


title: Windows Registry

text: The registry can be manipulated in a number of ways from the command line. The codice_34 and codice_35 utility tools are included in Windows XP and later versions of Windows. Alternative locations for legacy versions of Windows include the Resource Kit CDs or the original Installation CD of Windows.


title: Windows Registry

text: The /s means the file will be "silent merged" to the registry. If the codice_37 parameter is omitted the user will be asked to confirm the operation. In Windows 98, Windows 95 and at least some configurations of Windows XP the codice_37 switch also causes codice_39 to ignore the setting in the registry that allows administrators to disable it. When using the codice_37 switch codice_39 does not return an appropriate return code if the operation fails, unlike codice_34 which does.


title: Windows Registry

text: It is also possible to use codice_34. Here is a sample to display the value of the registry value Version:


title: Windows Registry

text: Other command line options include a VBScript or JScript together with CScript, WMI or codice_46 and Windows PowerShell.


title: Windows Registry

text: Registry permissions can be manipulated through the command line using codice_35 and the codice_48 tool. For example, the permissions on the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE key can be displayed using:


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows PowerShell comes with a registry provider which presents the registry as a location type similar to the file system. The same commands used to manipulate files and directories in the file system can be used to manipulate keys and values of the registry.


title: Windows Registry

text: Also like the file system, PowerShell uses the concept of a "current location" which defines the context on which commands by default operate. The codice_49 (also available through the aliases codice_50, codice_51 or codice_52) retrieves the child keys of the current location. By using the codice_53 (or the alias codice_54) command the user can change the current location to another key of the registry. Commands which rename items, remove items, create new items or set content of items or properties can be used to rename keys, remove keys or entire sub-trees or change values.


title: Windows Registry

text: Through PowerShell scripts files, an administrator can prepare scripts which, when executed, make changes to the registry. Such scripts can be distributed to administrators who can execute them on individual machines. The PowerShell Registry provider supports transactions, i.e. multiple changes to the registry can be bundled into a single atomic transaction. An atomic transaction ensures that either all of the changes are committed to the database, or if the script fails, none of the changes are committed to the database.


title: Windows Registry

text: The registry can be edited through the APIs of the Advanced Windows 32 Base API Library (advapi32.dll). List of registry API functions:


title: Windows Registry

text: Many programming languages offer built-in runtime library functions or classes that wrap the underlying Windows APIs and thereby enable programs to store settings in the registry (e.g. codice_55 in VB.NET and C#, or codice_56 in Delphi and Free Pascal). COM-enabled applications like Visual Basic 6 can use the WSH codice_57 object. Another way is to use the Windows Resource Kit Tool, codice_34 by executing it from code, although this is considered poor programming practice.


title: Windows Registry

text: Similarly, scripting languages such as Perl (with codice_59), Python (with winreg), TCL (which comes bundled with the registry package), Windows Powershell and Windows Scripting Host also enable registry editing from scripts.


title: Windows Registry

text: The offreg.dll available from the Windows Driver Kit offers a set of APIs for the creation and manipulation of currently not loaded registry hives similar to those provided by advapi32.dll.


title: Windows Registry

text: It is also possible to edit the registry (hives) of an offline system from Windows PE or Linux (in the latter case using open source tools).


title: Windows Registry

text: Prior to the introduction of registration-free COM, developers were encouraged to add initialization code to in-process and out-of-process binaries to perform the registry configuration required for that object to work. For in-process binaries such as .DLL and .OCX files, the modules typically exported a function called DllInstall() that could be called by installation programs or invoked manually with utilities like Regsvr32.exe; out-of-process binaries typically support the commandline arguments /Regserver and /Unregserver that created or deleted the required registry settings. COM applications that break because of DLL Hell issues can commonly be repaired with RegSvr32.exe or the /RegServer switch without having to re-invoke installation programs.


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows exposes APIs that allows user-mode applications to register to receive a notification event if a particular registry key is changed. APIs are also available to allow kernel-mode applications to filter and modify registry calls made by other applications.


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows also supports remote access to the registry of another computer via the codice_60 function if the Remote Registry service is running, correctly configured and its network traffic is not firewalled.


title: Windows Registry

text: Each key in the registry of Windows NT versions can have an associated security descriptor. The security descriptor contains an access control list (ACL) that describes which user groups or individual users are granted or denied access permissions. The set of registry permissions include 10 rights/permissions which can be explicitly allowed or denied to a user or a group of users.


title: Windows Registry

text: As with other securable objects in the operating system, individual access control entries (ACE) on the security descriptor can be explicit or inherited from a parent object.


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows Resource Protection is a feature of Windows Vista and later versions of Windows that uses security to deny Administrators and the system WRITE access to some sensitive keys to protect the integrity of the system from malware and accidental modification.


title: Windows Registry

text: Special ACEs on the security descriptor can also implement mandatory integrity control for the registry key and subkeys. A process running at a lower integrity level cannot write, change or delete a registry key/value, even if the account of the process has otherwise been granted access through the ACL. For instance, Internet Explorer running in Protected Mode can "read" medium and low integrity registry keys/values of the currently logged on user, but it can only modify low integrity keys.


title: Windows Registry

text: Outside security, registry keys cannot be deleted or edited due to other causes. Registry keys containing NUL characters cannot be deleted with standard registry editors and require a special utility for deletion, such as RegDelNull.


title: Windows Registry

text: Different editions of Windows have supported a number of different methods to back up and restore the registry over the years, some of which are now deprecated:


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows use Group Policy to enforce registry settings through a registry-specific client extension in the Group Policy processing engine. Policy may be applied locally to a single computer using codice_64, or to multiple users and/or computers in a domain using codice_65.


title: Windows Registry

text: With Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME and Windows NT 4.0, administrators can use a special file to be merged into the registry, called a policy file (codice_66). The policy file allows administrators to prevent non-administrator users from changing registry settings like, for instance, the security level of Internet Explorer and the desktop background wallpaper. The policy file is primarily used in a business with a large number of computers where the business needs to be protected from rogue or careless users.


title: Windows Registry

text: The policy file filters the settings it enforces by user and by group (a "group" is a defined set of users). To do that the policy file merges into the registry, preventing users from circumventing it by simply changing back the settings.


title: Windows Registry

text: The policy file is created by a free tool by Microsoft that goes by the filename codice_68 for Windows 95/Windows 98 and with a computer management module for Windows NT. The editor requires administrative permissions to be run on systems that uses permissions.


title: Windows Registry

text: The editor can also directly change the current registry settings of the local computer and if the remote registry service is installed and started on another computer it can also change the registry on that computer.


title: Windows Registry

text: The policy editor loads the settings it can change from codice_69 files, of which one is included, that contains the settings the Windows shell provides. The codice_69 file is plain text and supports easy localisation by allowing all the strings to be stored in one place.


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows NT kernels support redirection of INI file-related APIs into a virtual file in a registry location such as HKEY_CURRENT_USER using a feature called "InifileMapping". This functionality was introduced to allow legacy applications written for 16-bit versions of Windows to be able to run under Windows NT platforms on which the System folder is no longer considered an appropriate location for user-specific data or configuration. Non-compliant 32-bit applications can also be redirected in this manner, even though the feature was originally intended for 16-bit applications.


title: Windows Registry

text: Windows Vista introduced limited registry virtualization, whereby poorly written applications that do not respect the principle of least privilege and instead try to write user data to a read-only system location (such as the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE hive), are silently redirected to a more appropriate location, without changing the application itself.


title: Windows Registry

text: Similarly, application virtualization redirects all of an application's invalid registry operations to a location such as a file. Used together with file virtualization, this allows applications to run on a machine without being installed on it.


title: Windows Registry

text: Low integrity processes may also use registry virtualization. For example, Internet Explorer 7 or 8 running in "Protected Mode" on Windows Vista and above will automatically redirect registry writes by ActiveX controls to a sandboxed location in order to frustrate some classes of security exploits.


title: Windows Registry

text: The Application Compatibility Toolkit provides shims that can transparently redirect HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE or HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT Registry operations to HKEY_CURRENT_USER to address "LUA" bugs that cause applications not to work for users with insufficient rights.


title: Windows Registry

text: Critics labeled the registry in Windows 95 a single point of failure, because re-installation of the operating system was required if the registry became corrupt. However, Windows NT uses transaction logs to protect against corruption during updates. Current versions of Windows use two levels of log files to ensure integrity even in the case of power failure or similar catastrophic events during database updates. Even in the case of a non-recoverable error, Windows can repair or re-initialize damaged registry entries during system boot.


title: Windows Registry

text: In Windows, use of the registry for storing program data is a matter of developer's discretion. Microsoft provides programming interfaces for storing data in XML files (via MSXML) or database files (via SQL Server Compact) which developers can use instead. Developers are also free to use non-Microsoft alternatives or develop their own proprietary data stores.


title: Windows Registry

text: In contrast to Windows Registry's binary-based database model, some other operating systems use separate plain-text files for daemon and application configuration, but group these configurations together for ease of management.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: The ice hockey competitions of the 2022 Winter Olympics was played at two venues located in the Beijing cluster. The Beijing National Indoor Stadium, which seats 18,000, is one of what are being called Olympic Green venues. The Wukesong Arena, seating 10,000, was also used, with both arenas having been constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: The men's tournament had 12 teams competing, and the women's tournament 10 for the first time (an increase of two from 2018). Two events were contested, one each for men and women.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: The tournament featured twelve countries, eight qualifying through the IIHF World Ranking, the host China, and three through qualifying tournaments. The format remained the same as the previous three Olympics; three groups of four compete in three games to determine seeding, each played every other team in their group, followed by four rounds of elimination games. Each group winner received a bye into the second round, along with the highest ranked of the remaining teams. The remaining eight teams played an eliminating qualification game to advance to the quarter-final round. Each quarter-final winner advanced to the semi-finals with the winners playing for the gold medal and the losers playing for the bronze. With the cancellation of the 2020 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships, the groups were established on 24 April 2020, using the IIHF world rankings where seeding counted for the ranking points in unplayed tournaments.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: On 10 July 2020, the National Hockey League Players' Association (NHLPA) and National Hockey League agreed to a renewed collective bargaining agreement, which includes a provision opening the possibility for the NHL to explore participation at the 2022 and 2026 Winter Olympics. On 22 July 2021, the NHL released a 2021–22 schedule that included an Olympic break, but the league also announced that a final agreement had not yet been reached regarding Olympic participation of NHL players in 2022. On 3 September 2021, an agreement was made to allow NHL players to compete.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: On 22 December 2021, the NHL and the NHLPA announced that NHL players would not be participating in the men's ice hockey tournament at the 2022 Games. COVID-19 has forced a change in the NHL schedule. With approximately 50 games postponed, the NHL was to use the Olympic break to make up its own postponed games rather than have the players compete in the Olympics.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: Qualification for the men's tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics was determined by the IIHF World Ranking following the 2019 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships. The top eight joined the hosts and three qualifiers.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: The groups were established on 24 April 2020 in absence of a World Championship. Qualifiers one, two, and three, were the winners of the final qualification tournaments. Their designation was determined by their qualification seeding.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: Due to the lack of ice hockey talent in China, players had to be recruited from abroad. The men's hockey team had eleven Canadians, nine Chinese, three Americans, and a Russian.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: For the first time ten countries competed in the women's tournament, six qualifying through the IIHF World Ranking, the host China, and three through qualifying tournaments held in November 2021. The qualification groups and schedule will be established at the 2020 IIHF Annual Congress.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: Qualification for the women's tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics were supposed to be determined by the IIHF World Ranking following the 2020 Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, but they were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The top six ranked nations were established by using their seeding for ranking points in unplayed tournaments in 2020.


title: Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics

text: Qualifiers Czech Republic, Denmark, and Sweden, were the winners of the final qualification tournaments. Their designation was determined by their qualification seeding.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: Battle for the Planet of the Apes is a 1973 American science fiction film directed by J. Lee Thompson. It is the fifth and final installment in the original "Planet of the Apes" series, produced by Arthur P. Jacobs, following "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes". It stars Roddy McDowall, Claude Akins, Natalie Trundy, Severn Darden, Lew Ayres, Paul Williams, and John Huston.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: The second and third films in the 2010s reboot series, "Dawn of the Planet of the Apes" (2014) and "War for the Planet of the Apes" (2017), have a similar premise to "Battle", but they are not officially remakes.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: Told as a flashback to the early 21st century, with a wraparound sequence narrated by the orangutan Lawgiver in "North America – 2670 A.D.", this sequel follows the chimpanzee Caesar years after a global nuclear war has destroyed human civilization. Living with his wife, Lisa and their son, Cornelius, Caesar creates a new society while trying to cultivate peace between the apes and remaining humans. Caesar is opposed by an aggressive gorilla general named Aldo, who wants to imprison the humans who freely roam Ape City while doing menial labor.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: After defusing followers of Aldo who attacked a human teacher Abe for saying "No" to apes, Caesar ponders if his own parents could have taught him how to make things better. MacDonald, Caesar's human assistant and the younger brother of MacDonald (from "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes") reveals to Caesar that his brother told him of archived footage of Cornelius and Zira within the underground, now radioactive ruins of what is known as the Forbidden City from the last film. Caesar travels with MacDonald and his orangutan advisor Virgil to the Forbidden City to find the archives.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: It is revealed that mutated and radiation-scarred humans are living within the city, under the command of Governor Kolp, the man who once captured Caesar. Caesar and his party view the recordings of his parents, learning about the future and Earth's eventual destruction before they are forced to flee when Kolp's soldiers hunt them. Fearing the mutant humans may attack Ape City, Caesar reports his discoveries. When Caesar calls MacDonald and a select group of humans to the meeting, Aldo leads the gorillas away.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: Kolp's scouts find Ape City. Believing Caesar is planning to finish off all mutant humans, Kolp declares war on Ape City despite his assistant Méndez's attempt to get him to see reason. Aldo plots a coup d'état in order for the gorillas to take control. Cornelius overhears from a nearby tree, but is critically wounded when Aldo spots him and hacks off the tree branch he is on with his sword. The next day, after a gorilla scouting pair are attacked by Kolp's men, Aldo takes advantage of a grieving Caesar's absence to have all humans corralled while looting the armory. Cornelius eventually dies from his wounds, leaving a devastated Caesar with the revelation that Cornelius was not hurt by humans.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: When Kolp's ragtag force launches their attack, Caesar orders the defenders to fall back. Finding Caesar lying among dozens of fallen apes, Kolp expresses his intention to personally kill him. The apes, however, are merely feigning death and launch a counterattack that captures most of the mutant humans. Kolp and his remaining forces try to escape, only to be slaughtered by Aldo's troops once they are out in the open.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: Aldo confronts Caesar about releasing the corralled local humans and orders the gorillas to kill them. When Caesar shields the humans and Aldo threatens him, Virgil, having learned the truth from MacDonald, reveals Aldo's role in Cornelius's death. Enraged with Aldo for breaking their most sacred law, "ape shall never kill ape", Caesar pursues him up a large tree, their confrontation resulting in Aldo falling to his death.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: With Caesar realizing that apes are no different than their former human slaveowners, he agrees to MacDonald's request for humans to be treated as equals, co-existing in a new society. They store their guns in the armory; Caesar and Virgil reluctantly explain to the armory's overseer, an orangutan named Mandemas, that they will still need their weapons for future conflicts and can only wait for the day when they will no longer need them.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: The scene returns to the Lawgiver, saying it has now been over 600 years since Caesar's death. His audience is revealed to be a group of young humans and apes, the Lawgiver noting that their society still waits for a day when their world will no longer need weapons, while they "wait with hope". A closeup of a statue of Caesar shows a single tear falling from one eye.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: Initially, writer Paul Dehn, who had provided the script for every previous sequel, was hired to provide a story treatment for the fifth film in the series. Dehn withdrew from the project prior to completing the screenplay due to health reasons. Screenwriters John William Corrington and Joyce Hooper Corrington were brought in after the success of their film "The Omega Man", although prior to that, neither one of them had written any science fiction films. Joyce Carrington later admitted they had never seen any of the "Apes" films prior to being hired to write the script for "Battle". Dehn was unavailable for the initial rewrites, but was hired to come in and do a final polish on the script. Dehn was given a story credit despite an appeal to the Writers Guild of America for shared credit on the screenplay. Dehn claimed to have rewritten 90% of the dialogue and he altered the ending. The original script by the Corringtons ended on a playground with ape and human children fighting. Dehn chose to go with a close up of a statue of Caesar with a tear falling from its eye which Joyce Corrington characterized as "...stupid. It turned our stomachs when we saw it." The Writers Guild of America ruled in favor of the Corringtons for sole screenplay credit.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: Principal photography took place on the Fox Movie Ranch for an estimated budget of $1.7 million. Heading into filming, director J. Lee Thompson was unhappy with both the script and the scope of the production, which he felt could have used a bigger budget to assist in the portrayal of "Battle". Thompson had agreed to direct without a script in place and regretted that Paul Dehn could not have been on the project throughout the writing process.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" was the second-to-last film produced by Arthur P. Jacobs. He died June 27, 1973, at age 51, less than two weeks after its release.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: The syndicated television version adds a few scenes cut from the theatrical release. One scene takes place after Aldo chases teacher Abe, where MacDonald reminds him why humans should not say "no" to an ape.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: Another scene towards the end of the film shows the beginnings of the House of Mendez cult, as the humans in the city are about to fire off the doomsday bomb (as seen in "Beneath the Planet of the Apes"), but decide not to, as it would destroy the world. In "Beneath", one can see many signs of Mendez in the Forbidden Zone, a hymnal on the pipe organ reading "Mendez II", busts of past leaders of the mutant society (such as Mendez XIV), and the mutant leader in "Beneath" is also named Mendez. It is clear that Governor Mendez is a different leader than his predecessors, Breck and Kolp, since he is more sympathetic to the apes, as long as they do not invade their territory.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: In 2006, the "Planet of the Apes" movies were re-released separately and in a new box set. This version was earlier released in a Japanese laserdisc boxset. Listed are the additional scenes:


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" grossed a domestic total of $8.8 million, making it the lowest-grossing film in the series.


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: The film received mixed to negative reviews from critics. The film holds a 36% "Rotten" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 28 critical reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Bereft of bright ideas and visually shabby, "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" takes a celebrated franchise and blows it all up -- the maniacs!" Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" gave the film two stars out of four, stating, ""Battle" looks like the last gasp of a dying series, a movie made simply to wring the dollars out of any remaining ape fans." Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" awarded one star out of four and wrote, "The fifth and last in the successful Apes series is the worst of the lot, a bloody bore." "Variety" noted, "This is the fifth and last feature film of the 'Apes' series, and the fact shows too obviously in the Arthur P. Jacobs production, which is routine programmer material for fast playoff ... J. Lee Thompson's perfunctory direction both reflects and sets the sluggish tone pervading the 86-minute film." Vincent Canby of "The New York Times" opined that director J. Lee Thompson "will not win any awards for 'Battle,' but the film's simplicity defuses criticism. The chimpanzee and orangutan make-up remains remarkable, and the lines are occasionally bright and funny. There are far worse ways of wasting time." Tom Shales of "The Washington Post" wrote that the film "ends it all with more of a thud than a bang—prolonging the concept but, again, failing to extend the idea." Kevin Thomas of the "Los Angeles Times" wrote in a positive review that although the film "is launched from a more thinly contrived premise than any of its predecessors it becomes just as involving as they were, thanks to the strong appeal of the series' allegorical underpinnings and to the adroit direction of J. Lee Thompson, who stages several spectacular (rather than gory) battle scenes with the same finesse he displays in the film's more intimate moments." David McGillivray wrote that "almost every line of the Corringtons' thin script attests the strain of having to find anything new for the apes to say or do."


title: Battle for the Planet of the Apes

text: In the 2012 film "Argo", based on the 1980 "Canadian Caper" rescue from Iran of U.S. diplomats hiding at the Canadian ambassador's residence, Tony Mendez gets the idea for the fictitious "Argo" cover story from watching "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" on television. This was a nod to the role of "Planet of the Apes" make-up artist John Chambers in the Canadian Caper.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: This page documents notable tornadoes and tornado outbreaks worldwide in 2021. Strong and destructive tornadoes form most frequently in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Bangladesh, and Eastern India, but can occur almost anywhere under the right conditions. Tornadoes also develop occasionally in southern Canada during the Northern Hemisphere's summer and somewhat regularly at other times of the year across Europe, Asia, Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. Tornadic events are often accompanied by other forms of severe weather, including strong thunderstorms, strong winds, and hail.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: There were 1,377 preliminary filtered reports of tornadoes in the United States in 2021, of which at least 1,313 were confirmed. Worldwide, 150 tornado-related deaths were confirmed with 103 in the United States, 28 in China, six in the Czech Republic, four in Russia, three in Italy, two in India, and one each in Canada, New Zealand, Indonesia, and Turkey. The year started well below average with the lowest amount of tornado reports through the first two months in the past 16 years and remained below-average for most of the year due to inactivity during April, June, September, and November. Despite this, several intense outbreaks occurred in March, May, July, August, and October. The year ended on a destructive note, however, as December was incredibly active, more than doubling the previous record, which pushed 2021 above average. Additionally, 2021 had the most tornado fatalities in the United States since 2011.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: A tornado touched down in Slangit Village within the Cirebon Regency, flattening three small houses, and destroying or heavily damaging eight others. The tornado also downed several trees, some of which landed on houses and caused minor damage.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Following a period of inactivity, the Storm Prediction Center issued a slight risk for severe weather for a broad area in northwest Alabama, northeast Mississippi, and southern Tennessee on January 25. This included a 5% risk for tornadoes. Isolated to scattered severe weather occurred throughout the afternoon into the evening, including an EF0 tornado that caused some tree damage in Fayette County, Tennessee. Later that evening, an isolated severe storm developed in Central Mississippi near Interstate 55. The storm then tracked northeastward into Alabama, approaching the northern Birmingham metro area by 10:20 p.m. (04:20 UTC), exhibiting consistent, but broad, rotation. At 10:40 p.m. (04:40 UTC), the storm unexpectedly produced an intense and destructive tornado that struck the suburbs of Fultondale and Center Point. Significant structural damage occurred in Fultondale, with numerous homes, vehicles, and businesses being severely damaged or destroyed. A Hampton Inn sustained major structural damage, and Fultondale High School was significantly damaged as well. Considerable damage to homes and trees was also noted farther to the northeast in Center Point along the long damage path, which was up to wide. The tornado, which was rated mid-range EF3 with maximum winds of up to , killed one person and injured at least 30 others.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: After no tornadic activity on January 26, two weak EF1 tornadoes touched down southwest of Tallahassee, Florida the next day. The second of the two tornadoes caused damage to the Tallahassee International Airport and narrowly missed the National Weather Service NEXRAD radar site at the airport, although functionality of the radar was disabled for about an hour after the tornado struck the airport grounds due to communication issues. Several planes and structures were damaged, but no injuries were reported. The tornado continued east, causing additional sporadic tree and property damage before lifting after tracking for . It was given a rating of low-end EF1 based on tree damage in the employee lot of the airport.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: A brief, but strong F2 tornado touched down in Yildirim, Bursa Province, damaging at least 20 structures and killing one person. Industrial buildings were damaged, some significantly, and vehicles were flipped and damaged by the tornado as well, one of which was tossed onto the roof of a building. The fatality occurred when a man was struck by flying debris.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: On February 15, the Storm Prediction Center issued an Enhanced risk for severe weather. Multiple tornadoes, two of which were strong and destructive, struck the states of Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. One supercell produced a tornado family of three tornadoes in the Florida Panhandle and Southwestern Georgia, with the final one being a large, strong EF2 tornado that caused major damage to homes and injured five people just outside of Damascus, Georgia. Around midnight, a destructive high-end EF3 tornado heavily damaged or destroyed dozens of homes in the Ocean Ridge Plantation subdivision near Sunset Beach, North Carolina. A community garden center and two homes were leveled at that location, one of which was swept completely away. A large metal building, several vehicles and RVs, and many trees sustained significant damage as well. Three fatalities and 10 injuries occurred as a result of this tornado. It was the deadliest tornado in Southeastern North Carolina since an F3 tornado killed eight in Riegelwood in November 2006. A total of six tornadoes were confirmed.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: On the morning of March 13, the Storm Prediction Center issued a moderate risk with severe weather outlook for the Texas Panhandle, including a 15% risk for strong tornadoes. Multiple tornadoes touched down across the Panhandle, mainly areas between Lubbock and Amarillo and points eastward. A large EF2 wedge tornado moved from southwest of Happy in Swisher County to east of Canyon in Randall County, toppling a cell tower, inflicting major roof damage to homes, and snapping trees and power poles. As the tornado dissipated, a new tornado, rated EF1, formed and moved into Armstrong County, passing over Palo Duro Canyon, where several RVs were tossed and a cabin had its roof blown off. A third tornado was spawned just northeast of the second one, also crossing from Randall County to Armstrong County and lifting near Washburn, just before crossing into Carson County. Another EF2 tornado caused minor damage in Clarendon before strengthening and causing major damage to power poles and a mobile home near the Greenbelt Lake Reservoir. Farther to the north, an EF2 tornado moved through a rural area near Ensign, Kansas, snapping power poles and causing damage to grain bins and pivot irrigation sprinklers, although no tornado warning was issued for the storm. Several other tornadoes touched down very briefly and received ratings of EFU because they did not cause any damage. A total of 21 tornadoes were confirmed.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Following isolated tornado activity on March 16, a rare high risk outlook was issued by the SPC for March 17 in Mississippi and Alabama, including a 45% risk area for tornadoes, the first of which since May 2019. Forecasters noted the potential for violent, long-tracked tornadoes to occur in the risk area, though this did not occur. However, a few strong tornadoes did touch down and cause significant damage, though none exceeded EF2 intensity. The first tornado of the day touched down west of Waynesboro, Mississippi just after 12:00 p.m. CDT and caused EF2 damage to chicken houses and trees. Other strong EF2 tornadoes caused damage in and around Silas, Billingsley, and Burnsville, Alabama. More severe weather occurred on March 18 along the Atlantic coast from Florida to Southern Maryland, and a moderate risk was issued from Eastern Georgia to North Central North Carolina on March 17. The moderate risk was downgraded to enhanced on March 18 due to a lack of buoyancy in the atmosphere, but numerous strong to severe thunderstorms still tracked through the area during the afternoon. Several more tornadoes were confirmed before the storms moved offshore that evening. Overall, this outbreak produced 51 tornadoes and no fatalities.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: After isolated tornado and widespread hail activity in Texas the previous day, March 25 brought another severe weather outbreak to the Deep South, where a high risk outlook was issued for the second time in eight days. This included a 30% risk for tornadoes, with the potential for multiple strong and long-tracked tornadoes noted in the outlook discussion. The first supercell of the day produced three low-end EF3 tornadoes in central Alabama with the second one prompting a tornado emergency—the first of three issued during the outbreak—in Shelby County, Alabama. That tornado damaged or destroyed many homes in the southern suburbs of Birmingham. The home of broadcast meteorologist James Spann was one of the residences damaged by this tornado. The third tornado destroyed a manufacturing facility and a church, and badly damaged or destroyed many homes in and around Ohatchee, Alabama, killing six people. A long-tracked EF3 wedge tornado also tracked over across five counties in central Alabama for 98 minutes, causing significant damage near Sawyerville, Greensboro and Brent while injuring 13. The most intense tornado of the event was a low-end EF4 tornado that caused major damage in Newnan, Georgia during the overnight hours, leveling homes and resulting in one indirect death due to a heart attack. An EF2 tornado ripped the roofs off several homes near Waynesboro, Tennessee as well. Tornado activity on March 26 was limited to a high-end EF1 tornado that damaged a house and flipped a car near Middlebury, Vermont, injuring two people. However, the SPC issued an enhanced risk for parts of the Southern United States for March 27, including a 10% hatched risk area for tornadoes. More strong tornadoes were reported that evening, and several PDS tornado warnings were issued in Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. One person was killed by an EF2 tornado that badly damaged or destroyed multiple homes near Carthage, Texas. An EF2 tornado also severely damaged a rice mill near De Witt, Arkansas, and another EF2 tornado struck the north edge of Monticello, tossing multiple vehicles and damaging a construction company. A final EF1 tornado that destroyed outbuildings and downed trees was confirmed near Fairview, Alabama on the morning March 28 before a squall line produced widespread wind damage in the Delaware Valley that afternoon. The severe weather ended that night as the storms moved offshore into the Atlantic Ocean. Overall, 43 tornadoes were confirmed throughout the outbreak sequence, which led to seven fatalities, plus one indirect and numerous injuries.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: A strong multi-vortex tornado hit Cimenyan in the Bandung Regency, causing significant damage to several homes, businesses, and many trees, injuring eight people. Reports indicate that the tornado was spawned by a circulation embedded within a line of severe thunderstorms.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: There were 79 tornadoes confirmed in the United States in April. This was the lowest amount of April tornadoes since 1992.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: A narrow tornado touched down in Sumenep Regency, causing damage in and around the village of Pinggir Papas in the Kalianget District. Three people were injured by the tornado, which damaged 18 houses.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Scattered tornado activity occurred in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Iowa from April 7 into the early morning hours of April 8, with 12 tornadoes being confirmed. An EF0 tornado in southwestern Cedar Rapids, Iowa caused minor injuries to one person from glass after their bedroom window was blown in, while an EF1 tornado injured another person in Bastrop, Louisiana. More scattered severe weather occurred during the afternoon of April 8 and four more tornadoes were confirmed across the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee. An EF0 tornado damaged Pleasant Hill Elementary School and a nearby nursing home in Pleasant Hill in Cumberland County, while three tornadoes, including two rated EF2, caused heavy damage in the Norma and Straight Fork communities in Scott County. Several homes sustained heavy damage, including a double-wide mobile home which was destroyed. Damage totaled to at least $515 million.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: A tornado touched down in Klungkung, Bali overnight, damaging 30 homes. A majority of the damage was to roofs and canopies.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Several rounds of intense severe thunderstorms brought significant damaging winds, very large hail, and several tornadoes primarily across the Southern United States from April 9 into the evening of April 11. April 9 started with several clusters of multi-cells, supercells, and bowing segments across much of the Deep South. Strong straight-line thunderstorm winds in Shreveport, Louisiana toppled a tree onto a mobile home around 6:30 p.m. (23:30 UTC), resulting in a fatality. Several large hail-producing supercells then formed and moved through areas from Oklahoma to North Texas before merging into a large squall line and surging southeastward into Arkansas and Louisiana, producing widespread wind damage. Meanwhile, several tornado-producing supercells formed ahead of the line. A weak EF0 tornado was recorded by several storm spotters near Pelahatchie, Mississippi, causing intermittent tree damage. Just after midnight on April 10, a large EF1 tornado ripped roofs off of sheds and carports and knocked down trees, including some that fell on homes, near Columbia, Mississippi. To the southwest, a low-end EF3 tornado tossed vehicles and damaged or destroyed several homes and mobile homes in the rural community of Waxia near Palmetto, Louisiana just after 2:00 a.m. CDT (07:00 UTC), resulting in one fatality and seven injuries. Later that morning, the squall line produced multiple tornadoes in the Florida Panhandle. A strong tornadic waterspout came onshore in Laguna Beach, Florida, causing severe EF2 damage to a business and damaging several homes. Another tornadic waterspout struck Gulf Lagoon Beach, located at the southeastern edge of the Panama City Beach city limits and caused EF0 damage to beach furniture. In Lynn Haven, an EF1 tornado caused considerable damage to an automotive business. That afternoon, isolated to widely scattered severe storms formed from the Great Lakes to the Carolinas, producing sporadic wind and hail damage as well as isolated tornadoes into the overnight hours. An EF1 tornado also caused damage to businesses and a radio tower, and flipped a car near Seneca, South Carolina. A brief EF0 tornado damaged a few homes near Cutlerville, Michigan, and another EF0 tornado damaged a home near Reidville, South Carolina. Early on April 11, another EF1 tornado caused damage to homes and outbuildings near Belvoir, North Carolina. That afternoon, another squall line pushed southeastward down the entire Florida panhandle, producing mainly wind and hail damage, although a brief EF0 tornado that caused minor tree damage was confirmed near Eagle Lake. Another non-tornadic fatality occurred near Spring Hill when a person got out of their car after it was struck by a fallen tree and was electrocuted when they came in contact with downed power lines. Overall, the outbreak generated 20 tornadoes, resulting in one fatality. Two other non-tornadic deaths also occurred as a result of the severe weather. There was also at least $635 million in damage.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: A tornado touched down in Meko Village, West Pamona Sub-District, Poso Regency in Sulawesi, heavily damaging several homes and two churches. One person was killed. Total losses were estimated at Rp 130 million (US$9,100).


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Beginning on the afternoon of April 23 into the early morning hours of April 25, severe thunderstorms moved across the Southern United States. Multiple photogenic tornadoes were observed in North Texas on April 23, including an EF2 tornado that heavily damaged a farm, snapped power poles, and threw vehicles west of Lockett. Another EF2 tornado snapped many trees and damaged homes southwest of Douglas, Georgia on April 24, including one that was shifted off of its foundation. Two people were injured when an EF1 tornado flipped a mobile home west of Haleburg, Alabama as well. A total of 14 tornadoes were confirmed.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: On April 21, the SPC issued a 15% risk contour for areas of Texas and Oklahoma. By April 27, a slight risk was in place for parts of the Great Plains, mainly for the threat very large hail. Numerous tornadoes touched down in Colorado and Texas, most of which were weak or remained over open fields. However, one strong multiple-vortex EF3 tornado touched down near Truscott, Texas, tossing a 4,000 lb (1,800 kg) cattle feeder and bending large metal power line pylons to the ground. An early-morning high-end EF1 tornado that hit near Pauls Valley, Oklahoma on April 28 destroyed multiple barns, sheds, and outbuildings. Another high-end EF1 tornado near Hondo, Texas destroyed a mobile home and a barn, severely damaged the roof of a house, downed trees and power lines, and toppled a hunting tower. The same supercell also produced a hailstone in Hondo, the largest hailstone ever recorded in Texas. Other weak tornadoes touched down that afternoon as well. Three severe hailstorms that day also caused major damage in the suburbs of Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, and San Antonio as well, the third of which came from the Hondo supercell. Overall, 25 tornadoes were confirmed. Damage was at least a billion dollars.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: There were 259 tornadoes confirmed in the United States in May. This was the first time in recorded history that no F3/EF3+ tornadoes touched down in May, despite near average activity.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: An EF2 tornado struck Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, inflicting damage to 97 buildings and causing three minor injuries. Multiple homes had their roofs torn off, many power poles were snapped, garages were destroyed, and semi-trucks were overturned by the tornado. Some industrial buildings were also damaged, and sheet metal was wrapped around power lines.


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text: Two separate zones of severe and tornadic weather struck the Central Plains and Lower Mississippi Valley on May 2. In Mississippi, numerous tornadoes touched down, including a high-end EF1 tornado that struck the south edge of Yazoo City, destroying mobile homes and a billboard, and downing many trees. An EF2 tornado also caused extensive damage to homes and trees south of Coila, Mississippi. Other EF1 tornadoes caused considerable damage in Calhoun City and Tupelo, the latter of which prompted a tornado emergency. That tornado caused damage in neighborhoods near the Elvis Presley Museum. The next day, tornadic activity again affected areas from the Central Plains eastward to the Mid-Atlantic. Two EF1 tornadoes caused considerable damage on the west side of the Atlanta metro during the morning of May 3. That afternoon, a long-tracked, radar-confirmed EF2 tornado caused considerable damage and prompted multiple PDS tornado warnings in northwestern South Carolina near Greenwood. Another EF2 tornado destroyed a manufactured home near Callao, Virginia. An EF1 tornado also destroyed a building in Ranson, West Virginia, injuring one person. Meanwhile, in Texas, an EF2 tornado injured eight near Waxahachie when it flipped vehicles on I-35E and inflicted major damage to homes northeast of there. Another tornado, rated high-end EF2, ripped much of the roof and some walls from a house near Blum. More tornadic and severe weather occurred on May 4, affecting areas from East Texas to Pennsylvania, including an EF2 tornado that caused major damage to a home and tossed a car near Fulton, Kentucky. Overall, 97 tornadoes were confirmed, causing at least 10 injuries. Four non-tornadic fatalities also took place, including two that occurred in Georgia on May 3 due to falling trees.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: An F2 tornado embedded within a line of severe thunderstorms caused significant damage in Tereszpol-Zygmunty, Poland. A total of 15 homes were damaged in the small village, including one house that sustained total roof loss and collapse of some second floor exterior walls. Several barns and outbuildings were completely destroyed, with sheet metal debris scattered hundreds of meters through fields outside of town. Vehicles and farm implements were moved and damaged, including a tractor that was lifted and overturned. Power lines and fences were downed, and many trees were snapped or uprooted along the path as well.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Multiple cyclic supercell thunderstorms developed in a very moist, highly sheared, and unstable environment, sparking a significant two-day tornado outbreak across parts of China. At around sunset on the evening of May 14, a large and destructive EF3 tornado ripped directly through the town of Shengze near Shanghai, killing four people and injuring 149 others. Numerous warehouses and industrial buildings in town were damaged or destroyed, along with multiple houses, and large metal truss electrical transmission towers were blown over. Vehicles were also damaged, and trees were snapped and denuded, a few of which sustained debarking. Later that night, another strong EF3 tornado struck the Caidian District of Wuhan, destroying 28 homes and damaging 130 others, killing eight and injuring 230. Manufacturing plants and industrial buildings were also severely damaged or destroyed, and large construction cranes were toppled to the ground. Many trees and power poles were snapped by the Wuhan tornado as well. Several other damaging tornadoes, some fatal, were reported in other more rural parts of the country, though few details are available. A total of 13 tornadoes were confirmed, along with 15 fatalities and at least 400 injuries. Along with the 13 confirmed tornadoes, several other unconfirmed reports of additional tornadoes were also received. Damage was estimated at $96 million.


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text: At least two tornadoes were spawned by the outer bands of Cyclone Yaas in the districts of North 24 Paragana and Hooghly. One tornado was reported in Halishar with another reported in Chinsurah. Two people died with five injured, and 80 houses were damaged. Damage to trees and some businesses occurred as well.


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text: A single supercell thunderstorm produced four low-end EF2 tornadoes, all with winds of around 190 km/h (118 mph) as it tracked from Eastern Ontario into Quebec. One touched down east of Chapleau, Ontario, and the other three touched down in Quebec, west of the city of Val d’Or. All four tornadoes tracked through remote and heavily forested areas, snapping or uprooting countless trees. No injuries were reported.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: An outbreak of tornadoes occurred on May 26 across the Western Great Plains of the United States. A moderate risk for severe weather was issued on the morning of May 26 with a 15% hatched risk of tornadoes, noting the potential of strong tornadoes. A Particularly Dangerous Situation Tornado Watch was issued by the Storm Prediction Center for Northeastern and extreme Eastern Colorado, Western Kansas, and Southwestern Nebraska. That afternoon, a large EF2 tornado touched down in rural Dundy County, Nebraska, north of Benkelman. A large grove of elm trees were completely mowed down, a tractor was thrown , and power poles were snapped as the tornado traveled parallel to N-61. A high-end EF1 tornado also touched down in Rawlins County, Kansas, removing grain silos off of their foundations. Numerous other tornadoes were confirmed that day across Nebraska, Kansas, and Texas. This included an EF0 tornado that struck Perryton, Texas, causing minor damage to a car wash, apartment buildings, and a couple of businesses. As the system moved eastward on May 27, EF1 tornadoes touched down in both Missouri and Oklahoma. Four more tornadoes were confirmed on May 28 in Louisiana, Tennessee, and Texas, including an EF0 tornado that caused two injuries in Livingston, Tennessee after it heavily damaged a barn. Overall, 31 tornadoes were confirmed, along with two aforementioned injuries.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: There were 105 tornadoes confirmed in the United States in June. The month had the fifth fewest amount of significant tornadoes on record.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: A significant EF3 tornado caused major damage as it struck the town of Shangzhi in Heilongjiang province, damaging or destroying 148 homes. Several large metal chicken houses were completely destroyed at a farm in the area, and farm implements and tractors were thrown. Large swaths of trees were mowed down in rural areas outside of Shangzhi, and metal truss transmission towers were blown over. One person was killed and 16 others were injured by the tornado, which was photographed and caught on video from multiple angles. A separate EF2 tornado also caused considerable damage just north of the path of the main EF3 tornado. A few additional tornadoes also reportedly touched down in other areas of China that afternoon and evening, though the exact number of tornadoes and extent of the damage they produced is not known.


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text: On June 14, a small village near Xuzhou sustained major damage after being directly impacted by a high-end EF2 tornado. Dozens of masonry homes were badly damaged or destroyed, including a few small unanchored homes that were leveled. Trees were snapped and debarked, and farm fields near the village were scoured.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Seven tornadoes touched down in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Illinois as a result of a severe weather outbreak that affected the Ohio Valley region. A damaging EF2 tornado passed near the towns of Bryant and Portland, Indiana, while another EF2 tornado occurred near Fort Recovery, Ohio. Both of these tornadoes struck multiple farmsteads, resulting in extensive damage to homes, barns, outbuildings, trees, and power poles. A high-end EF1 tornado struck the town of Milan, Indiana, downing numerous trees, destroying a garage, and tearing shingles, siding, and gutters from homes. Another EF1 tornado near Moores Hill, Indiana damaged two homes and downed trees. An EF1 tornado also caused roof and tree damage near Germantown, Ohio, while another EF1 tornado damaged farm buildings, crops, and trees near the town of DeLong, Illinois. Numerous reports of straight-line winds, large hail, and flooding were received as well.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: On the morning of June 19, a tornado moved through the densely-populated Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe, causing extensive damage. A stack of large metal shipping containers was blown over at a freight hub, and a worker was killed at this location after being picked up and thrown by the tornado. Numerous homes sustained severe roof damage and broken windows, and a few houses had large portions of their roofs torn off. A two-story apartment building had its entire roof ripped off, a church building lost a large portion of its roof, vehicles were overturned, and many trees were downed. Power poles were also toppled to the ground, fences were destroyed, and sheet metal was wrapped around power lines. In addition to the fatality, a few people sustained minor injuries, including a two-year-old girl who was struck by a wooden fence board that smashed through a window. A total of 1,200 homes were affected by the tornado, 60 of which were left uninhabitable.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Beginning on June 19, a tornado outbreak affected several countries in Europe. A tornado of unknown intensity that struck the village of Saint-Nicolas-de-Bourgueil, France was the first tornado of the outbreak. A church in town sustained collapse of its steeple and had severe roof damage. There was roof damage to 50 other buildings, including the village hall. An F1 tornado moved through the northwest suburbs of Reims, causing damage to 40 homes and snapping numerous trees in a wooded area, while another tornado passed near Pontchâteau and caused no damage. Three weak tornadoes were also sighted as they touched down in open fields near La Ferté-Gaucher, Étampes, and Neuvy-en-Beauce, none of which caused any damage. A tornado that was not rated also struck Olne, Belgium, ripping the roof off of a school and damaging the roofs of a few homes. Tornado activity continued on June 20, and an F1 tornado caused damage to structures, vehicles, fences, and trees as it moved through an industrial section of Sundern, Germany. In Moldova, another F1 tornado caused tree and roof damage in the Chetrosu area. Later that night, a strong F2 tornado struck the village of Laloux, Belgium and ripped much of the roof off a large brick church. The top half of the church's steeple was blown off, and a section of the brick wall surrounding the church yard was collapsed. Multiple homes in the village had their roofs torn off, sheds were destroyed, and trees were downed as well. Another damaging F2 tornado impacted Beauraing, located to the southwest of Laloux, and ripped the roofs off of numerous well-built brick homes. A few of these homes sustained damage to the upper portions of their exterior walls, and a sports hall was completely destroyed. Significant damage to trees, power lines, and vehicles also occurred in and around town. The tornado damaged 90 homes in the Beauraing area, dozens of which were left uninhabitable, and injured 17 people. A tornado of unknown intensity also hit the small community of Bras, Belgium, downing trees and damaging roofs. Overall, a total of 12 tornadoes were confirmed as a result of this outbreak.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: Several tornadoes touched down in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina, on June 19–20 in association with Tropical Storm Claudette. The most significant tornado of the event was a large and destructive high-end EF2 tornado that struck East Brewton, Alabama, resulting in major damage and 20 injuries, two of which were serious. Multiple mobile homes were obliterated in East Brewton, houses and a school building sustained severe roof damage, and countless large trees were snapped or uprooted along the path. Three EF0 tornadoes also impacted the coastal Mississippi towns of Pass Christian, Pascagoula, and Long Beach, all of which produced mainly tree and roof damage. An EF1 tornado also downed trees and power lines near Hurley. In Georgia, a long-tracked EF1 tornado downed numerous trees, and also caused damage to mobile homes and pump houses as it struck Zetto and passed near Cuthbert along a -long path. A total of nine tornadoes were confirmed.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: In the evening and overnight hours of June 20, a severe weather outbreak produced damaging winds, large hail, and several tornadoes in Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana, with Illinois being hit the hardest. Two separate EF1 tornadoes caused damage to trees and farmsteads near the Iowa towns of Pella and Garry Owen. The most significant tornado of the event was a destructive low-end EF3 tornado that struck the western Chicago suburbs, causing severe damage in Naperville, Woodridge, and Darien. Many homes were damaged and some were destroyed as the tornado impacted multiple neighborhoods, and many trees and power lines were downed. One poorly-anchored home was leveled, and several cars were flipped by the tornado as well. Eleven injuries occurred as a result of the tornado, two of which were critical. At least 22,000+ ComEd customers were affected by power outages in DuPage County during this severe weather event. An EF0 tornado also moved through Plainfield and Romeoville, downing trees and tree limbs. Another EF0 tornado caused tree damage and tore shingles from the roofs of homes near South Haven, Indiana. A complex of damaging straight-line winds with embedded downbursts also damaged roofs throughout Downers Grove, Lemont, Homer Glen, and New Lenox. Additional tornadoes touched down in the very early morning hours of June 21, as an EF1 tornado overturned a box truck and caused damage to some metal buildings in Fremont, Indiana, while another EF1 tornado damaged trees and outbuildings near Wyatt. A few isolated weak tornadoes occurred later that day in Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and New York, with several other tornadoes confirmed farther to the north in Canada. The most significant of these was an EF2 tornado that struck the city of Mascouche in southern Quebec, killing one person and leaving a trail of significant damage in its wake. A home under construction was blown off its foundation and severely damaged, while other homes sustained partial to total roof loss and had windows blown out. The tornado also snapped large trees and downed hydro poles. The fatality occurred when a 59-year-old man tried to take shelter in a shed, which was lifted and destroyed by the tornado. Two people also suffered minor injuries. Three other tornadoes touched down in southern and southeastern Quebec on this day, namely an EF0 tornado in Saint-Valentin, Montérégie (about 40 km Southeast of Montréal), an EF0 tornado in Saint-Célestin, Centre-du-Québec, and an EF1 tornado in Saint-Narcisse-de-Beaurivage, Chaudière-Appalaches (about 30 km South of Québec City). A total of 16 tornadoes were confirmed as a result of this small outbreak, with one death and 13 injuries being confirmed.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: A small but significant tornado outbreak impacted Europe on June 24, producing what was reported as "the worst tornado in modern Czech history", an F4/IF4 tornado that tore through parts of South Moravian Region, Czech Republic, causing six fatalities and at least 200 injuries. The most severe damage occurred in Hrušky, Moravská Nová Ves, Mikulčice, Lužice, and Hodonín, and the tornado was videoed and photographed from multiple angles. Hundreds of well-built brick homes, apartment buildings, churches, businesses, factories, and warehouses were severely damaged or destroyed, including a few buildings that were leveled. Trees were denuded and debarked, the exterior walls of concrete buildings were scarred and impaled by flying debris, and many vehicles were thrown and mangled. Severed gas and electrical lines resulted in multiple small fires burning in wake of the tornado. Farm fields were scoured, and metal truss towers were collapsed, and large swaths of trees were flattened in rural areas. One third of the buildings in Hrušky were destroyed, and 85% were damaged. In Poland, an F2 tornado caused significant damage as it struck Librantowa and Koniuszowa, injuring one person. Dozens of homes and other structures were damaged in both towns, including 15 buildings that sustained total loss of their roofs. Outbuildings were destroyed, trees were downed, and sheet metal was thrown into fences and power lines. An F1 tornado also damaged the roofs of 20 homes in the Wrzelów area, and another F1 tornado damaged trees and telephone lines near Boronów. In France, a weak tornado briefly touched down near Miribel-les-Échelles, and a tornadic waterspout formed over Lake Peipus in Russia, with neither causing any damage. A tornado was also confirmed in the Kinzenbach, Germany area, causing no damage as well. The powerful supercells that produced these tornadoes also produced large and destructive hail, some of which was baseball-sized. An intense downburst occurred in the small Czech community of Stebno, Ústí nad Labem Region, resulting in considerable damage. Homes and a church in town sustained major roof damage, trees and power poles were downed, vehicles were damaged, and some older buildings sustained collapse of unreinforced brick walls. A total of seven tornadoes were confirmed.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: On June 25, a single cyclic supercell thunderstorm produced four significant tornadoes in China, two of which were deadly. The first tornado touched down near Baochang in Inner Mongolia before devastating the small village of Jianguo at high-end EF3 strength, completely leveling brick homes, debarking trees, tossing cars and farm implements, producing ground scouring in open fields, and killing at least six people. After the initial tornado dissipated, a second tornado touched down and struck Guyuan in Hebei Province, leveling additional homes and structures, causing major tree damage, and killing two others. A third significant tornado caused severe damage to homes near Fengning in Hebei Province, including some that sustained loss of roofs and exterior walls. A fourth tornado that blew over metal truss transmission towers, ripped roofs off of homes, and downed power poles was also confirmed in a rural area. Only the first tornado was officially rated.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: An outbreak consisting mostly of short-lived, weak tornadoes impacted the parts of Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Ontario, though a couple of strong tornadoes occurred as well. On June 25, a large but weak EF1 multiple-vortex tornado struck the town of Danforth, Illinois, damaging grain bins, houses, and trees.<ref name="LOT0625/26"></ref> On June 26, an EF2 tornado caused significant damage in Port Austin, Michigan, ripping the roofs off of multiple homes, destroying garages and outbuildings, throwing a fifth-wheel trailer, and injuring six people. Two EF0 tornadoes caused minor tree damage in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, one moving through Dyer and Schererville, while the other struck Crete. Another EF0 tornado struck the small town of Chatsworth, Illinois, causing minor damage. In Ontario, an EF2 tornado tracked from near Chatsworth, Ontario to the Walters Falls area, causing significant damage to barns and the roofs of homes, moving a vehicle, and snapping or uprooting numerous large trees. An EF0 tornado also briefly touched down near Goderich, causing no damage. A total of 24 tornadoes were confirmed. Damage from the storms totaled $1.3 billion.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: In England, an F1 tornado touched down in the London suburb of Barking. Roof tiles were stripped from homes, brick garden walls were toppled over, and windows were shattered. Trees and tree limbs were downed as well. In Germany, two tornadoes were reported in rural areas near Kaspeltshub and Opperhausen, neither of which caused any known damage. In Hungary, another brief tornado touched down in an open field near Kalocsa, causing no damage.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: An F3 tornado was photographed and caught on video directly impacting the small rural community of Bernistap, Belgium. Major damage occurred, as brick homes and other structures had their roofs torn off, a couple of which sustained collapse of exterior walls. A large, historic château was severely damaged in the area, many trees were snapped in wooded areas, and a cow was killed.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: On the evening of July 1, a damaging tornado struck Guyuan in Hebei Province for the second time in six days, completely destroying multiple small and unreinforced brick homes. Tractors and farm implements were thrown as well. The following day, a large and slow-moving EF3 stovepipe tornado moved through remote, mountainous terrain in Inner Mongolia, completely mowing down large swaths of trees in densely forested areas. Extreme tree damage was noted, with all trees stripped of limbs and bark in the most severely impacted areas, and some were reduced to debarked stumps. Ground scouring occurred, and large metal truss transmission towers were ripped from their footings, thrown, and torn apart as well.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: The approach and landfall of Hurricane Elsa spawned several tornadoes across the Eastern United States. An isolated EF0 tornado touched down in Columbia County, Florida on July 7, knocking a tree down onto a house. The next day, a high-end EF1 tornado caused significant damage to industrial buildings in Jacksonville, Florida, and also damaged many trees, homes, and apartment buildings along its path. The same storm then produced another EF1 tornado that caused considerable damage to residences in St. Marys, Georgia before tossing numerous campers at a RV park near Kings Bay Base, Georgia, injuring 17 people. Another EF1 tornado downed trees and tree limbs in Port Royal, South Carolina, some of which landed on homes. Additional weak tornadoes formed in the Carolinas and Virginia on July 8, including an EF0 tornado that caused minor tree damage in Smithfield, Virginia and an EF1 tornado that snapped many trees on Edisto Island in South Carolina. Two more impacted New Jersey on July 9, one of which caused EF1 damage to trees, a condominium office, and a picnic shelter in Woodbine. Overall, 17 tornadoes were confirmed.


title: Tornadoes of 2021

text: An outbreak of multiple strong tornadoes that impacted China began on July 11 and continued into July 12, including a large and destructive high-end EF2 tornado that moved through populated areas of Shenxian, resulting in major damage. Many vehicles were tossed, trees sustained debarking, and buildings sustained major structural damage from the tornado. Numerous homes and industrial buildings along the path were damaged or destroyed, and several high-rise apartments and two schools also sustained significant damage. Multiple injuries and fatalities were reported in Shenxian, but no exact figure was released. Another large and intense rain-wrapped EF3 tornado flattened a mile-wide swath of trees in forested areas near Gaotang, including some trees that were denuded and debarked. The tornado threw vehicles and snapped concrete power poles before moving into more populated areas of Gaotang, causing severe damage to homes and other structures. In Binzhou, a tornado snapped concrete power poles, damaged industrial buildings, flipped vehicles, and destroyed several manufactured homes. Major damage and at least one fatality was also reported in the Zhanhua area, where another apparent strong tornado completely destroyed several brick homes and a furniture factory. On July 13, tornadic activity continued as a large wedge tornado moved through areas near Zalantun, causing significant damage in several villages. Most of the tornadoes that occurred as a result of this outbreak were never officially rated, though analysis indicated that several of them produced damage consistent with at least EF2 or EF3 strength. One fatality and at least 11 tornadoes were confirmed as a result of this outbreak, though many other tornadoes and fatalities are suspected to have occurred.