On Monday a tornado ravaged Xanxerê, a city in southern Brazil, injuring 120 people and resulting in the deaths of two individuals.

Officials on Tuesday said that more than 1,000 people had been forced to leave their homes.

As reported by The Associated Press, via ABC News, The National Institute of Meteorology stated that a supercell storm had produced the tornado that hit Xanxerê, which is located in the state of Santa Catarina.

The storm wreaked havoc on an estimated 500 homes and took down lampposts, leaving many residents without electricity.

According to Luciano Peri, Santa Catarina's civil defense director, the two people that were killed apparently died inside their homes. The 120 people that were injured were taken to hospitals.

The deadly storm turned cars and trucks over and plowed through homes, leaving some houses without a roof.

Residents of Xanxerê described a black cloud that rendered many neighborhoods momentarily in complete darkness.

Despite the terrifying weather that occurred on Monday, tornadoes are actually a rarity in Brazil.

This particular region, where the country meets Argentina and Uruguay, is however prone to supercell storms that can create tornadoes due to the warm and moist air coming from the Amazon jungle that collides with the cold wind coming from the Andes.

In 2009, a tornado in the border area of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay killed more than 14 people and ended up wounding dozens.

As reported by the Weather Channel, which cites a paper published by scientists at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, tornadoes are most common in the southern part of Brazil where the city of Xanxerê is located.

Between the years 1991 and 2010, most of the tornadoes that occurred in Brazil happened from September on through May, a time which coincides with spring, summer and fall in the Southern Hemisphere.