INT: Rare Colombia Tornado Video, Phill. Photo

CNN has a video of a rare tornado

in Columbia, Central America. Apparently this was the first time one had ever been seen in the capital city of Bogota. Additional news on the event was .

Bogota is located high atop a plateau in northwest South America [Google Map], surrounded by mountains, so it would follow that tornadoes would be rare there.

BOGOTA, COLOMBIA MAP (Google Earth)

Below is an Associated Press photo of tornado damage in the Philippines on Wednesday.

Boys stand next to their damaged home Thursday Aug. 23, 2007, the morning after a tornado ravaged the farming village of Cambio, in San Miguel county, Bulacan province north of Manila, Philippines. A few residents suffered only minor injuries but San Miguel Mayor Roderick Tiongson estimated close to 50 houses were damaged by the twister. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)