[1] The city of Bendigo is located in Victoria, a southeastern state in Australia.

This southeastern region of Australia has seen tornadoes in the past, but, according to the Bureau of Meteorology, the tornado was an unusual occurrence for central Victoria and the last similar event occurred in Wonthaggi in 1993.

[3] The main areas hit were the city's northern suburbs of Eaglehawk and California Gully which had severe damage and power outages.

[4] There was flash flooding and minor damage across other suburbs of the city (including Strathfieldsaye and Flora Hill) and other parts of central Victoria experienced power outages.

[1][3] Emergency efforts quickly started to get the area safe and electricity back into homes.