--- title: Video: Tornado Destroys 12 Homes in Dominican Republic | WeatherBug | WeatherBug description: A tornado spun through Oviedo, Dominican Republic Monday, destroying 12 homes. canonical: https://www.weatherbug.com/news/Video-Tornado-Destroys-12-Homes-in-Dominican-Repu og:title: Video: Tornado Destroys 12 Homes in Dominican Republic | WeatherBug | WeatherBug og:description: A tornado spun through Oviedo, Dominican Republic Monday, destroying 12 homes. og:url: https://www.weatherbug.com/news/Video-Tornado-Destroys-12-Homes-in-Dominican-Repu og:site_name: WeatherBug og:locale: en_US og:image: https://cms-assets-con.cdn.weatherbug.net/assets/contentitems/bb/bb3e3d9f-52d6-4412-a027-729c61e594c1/52e0ce98-d40a-4283-82d1-d0fe816ebf4b/e5a52002-5873-4f52-a955-3ce9d5f9d716.png og:image:width: 800 og:image:height: 600 og:image:alt: Video: Tornado Destroys 12 Homes in Dominican Republic og:type: article article:published_time: 2016-12-17T16:52:24Z article:modified_time: 2016-12-17T16:52:24Z article:author: By WeatherBug article:tag: Caribbean article:tag: "Dominican Republic" article:tag: "Hurricane Matthew" article:tag: Matthew article:tag: tornado article:tag: tropical article:tag: video twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Video: Tornado Destroys 12 Homes in Dominican Republic | WeatherBug twitter:description: A tornado spun through Oviedo, Dominican Republic Monday, destroying 12 homes. twitter:image: https://cms-assets-con.cdn.weatherbug.net/assets/contentitems/bb/bb3e3d9f-52d6-4412-a027-729c61e594c1/52e0ce98-d40a-4283-82d1-d0fe816ebf4b/e5a52002-5873-4f52-a955-3ce9d5f9d716.png --- [](/weather-forecast/now) [Missing translation for key: backTo forecast](/weather-forecast/now) # Video: Tornado Destroys 12 Homes in Dominican Republic December 17, 2016 at 11:52 AM EST By WeatherBug  A tornado swept through Oviedo, which is located in the Dominican Republic's providence of Pedernales on Monday, October 3\. Although the tornado destroyed 12 homes and collapsed several radio antennas, it did not cause any fatalities. This occurred as intense Hurricane Matthew churned nearby in the Caribbean Sea. About 500 thousand people in flood-risk areas along the western half of the country were evacuated. _Credit_: Facebook/Pedro José Matos Ramirez via Storyful We use technologies, such as cookies, to analyze your use (i.e., pages visited), to customize content, for our internal analytics purposes and for security and other purposes. By continuing to use this website, you agree to this usage. Please review our [privacy policy](/legal/privacy) for more details as well as for information on how to contact us to object to these activities. [Ad Choices](/legal/privacy#digitaladvertisingandyourchoices) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://www.weatherbug.com/news/Video-Tornado-Destroys-12-Homes-in-Dominican-Repu"},"headline":"Video: Tornado Destroys 12 Homes in Dominican Republic","description":"A tornado spun through Oviedo, Dominican Republic Monday, destroying 12 homes.","image":["https://cms-assets-con.cdn.weatherbug.net/assets/contentitems/bb/bb3e3d9f-52d6-4412-a027-729c61e594c1/52e0ce98-d40a-4283-82d1-d0fe816ebf4b/e5a52002-5873-4f52-a955-3ce9d5f9d716.png"],"datePublished":"2016-12-17T16:52:24Z","dateModified":"2016-12-17T16:52:24Z","dateCreated":"2016-12-17T16:52:24Z","articleSection":"Weather News","keywords":"Caribbean,\"Dominican Republic\",\"Hurricane Matthew\",Matthew,tornado,tropical,video","articleBody":"A tornado swept through Oviedo, which is located in the Dominican Republic's providence of Pedernales on Monday, October 3. Although the tornado destroyed 12 homes and collapsed several radio antennas, it did not cause any fatalities. This occurred as intense Hurricane Matthew churned nearby in the Caribbean Sea. About 500 thousand people in flood-risk areas along the western half of the country were evacuated.
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