Overview
- Defesa Civil reported at least five fatalities and about 430 injured, including nine people in serious condition.
- Rio Bonito do Iguaçu sustained destruction across roughly 80–90% of the city, with thousands without electricity and water and a field hospital deployed.
- Officials said four deaths occurred in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu and one in Guarapuava, and at least 14 municipalities declared emergency status.
- Meteorologists said the tornado formed within a supercell linked to an extratropical cyclone, with estimated winds of 180–250 km/h and continuing severe-weather alerts across the southern region.
- Brazil’s government announced humanitarian assistance and deployed rescue assets as the same storm system caused damage, outages and evacuations in Argentina’s Misiones and Corrientes.