I'm already hearing from some sources the Czech Republic tornado was rated F4. While it seems unlikely a rating will have been assigned so soon I would not be surprised at all if we see the first violent European tornado since 2015.
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Significant Tornado Events
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Holy cow! The second video is a must watch! It speaks for itself.
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This has to be a very rare occurrence for the Czech Republic, right? The only modern violent tornadoes in Europe outside of Russia were in Poland, France, and Italy.
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I don't think so, Central Europe is one of the regions outside the United States that gets strong tornadoes on a semi-regular basis.
Check out this PDF below:
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Tornado with intensity like this was exceptionally rare for this place. Many "violent tornados" in Europe in the past were likely overrated. There were only 2 or 3 violent tornados in entire Eu over past two decades which said a lot.
Look at the exterior of that concrete house. Completely pock-marked by flying debris. It must have been a blizzard of high velocity projectiles inside this tornado.
Right now, it's currently listed as an F3 in the European Severe Weather database. We'll see if there's enough for further upgrade in the coming days. Also, here's an article that does a decent job of showing the tornado's path.
The most powerful tornado on record hit the Czech Republic, leaving several fatalities and 200+ injured across the Hodonin district
A historic and deadly tornado hit the Breclav and Hodonin districts, Czech Republic, leaving destruction, fatalities, and numerous injured along its path.
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Reminds me a lot of the 2012 Tsukuba, Japan tornado. Both storms were likely similar in intensity also.Look at the exterior of that concrete house. Completely pock-marked by flying debris. It must have been a blizzard of high velocity projectiles inside this tornado.
Right now, it's currently listed as an F3 in the European Severe Weather database. We'll see if there's enough for further upgrade in the coming days. Also, here's an article that does a decent job of showing the tornado's path.
The most powerful tornado on record hit the Czech Republic, leaving several fatalities and 200+ injured across the Hodonin district
A historic and deadly tornado hit the Breclav and Hodonin districts, Czech Republic, leaving destruction, fatalities, and numerous injured along its path.
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It's easily some of the most violent damage I've seen to architecture outside of the United States; European buildings are typically built of much heavier and sturdier materials than US ones, so it takes much higher wind speeds to do major damage to European structures. I know that European meteorological boards are usually conservative with tornado rankings, so we'll see what happens with this one.Look at the exterior of that concrete house. Completely pock-marked by flying debris. It must have been a blizzard of high velocity projectiles inside this tornado.
Right now, it's currently listed as an F3 in the European Severe Weather database. We'll see if there's enough for further upgrade in the coming days. Also, here's an article that does a decent job of showing the tornado's path.
The most powerful tornado on record hit the Czech Republic, leaving several fatalities and 200+ injured across the Hodonin district
A historic and deadly tornado hit the Breclav and Hodonin districts, Czech Republic, leaving destruction, fatalities, and numerous injured along its path.
Wasn't Hautmont initally rated F3 but later upgraded to (E)F4?
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To quote this article "Some meteorologists believed the tornado deserved an F4 rating, but the ever-conservative French meteorological board gave the tornado an F3 rating."
Scroll down to entry 6
Powerful Tornadoes Outside the United States – Violent Tornadoes in France, Russia, South Africa, Poland, Canada and Japan
□ The United States experiences more violent tornadoes than the rest of the world combined. In spite of this, the atmospheric ingredients needed to form rotating thunderstorms are present across th…
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I also found this PDF where the Hautmont tornado is listed as an EF4:To quote this article "Some meteorologists believed the tornado deserved an F4 rating, but the ever-conservative French meteorological board gave the tornado an F3 rating."
Scroll down to entry 6
Powerful Tornadoes Outside the United States – Violent Tornadoes in France, Russia, South Africa, Poland, Canada and Japan
□ The United States experiences more violent tornadoes than the rest of the world combined. In spite of this, the atmospheric ingredients needed to form rotating thunderstorms are present across th…
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Interesting, so it was updated.
I wonder if there's any confirmed F/EF5 tornadoes that have occurred in Europe.
Aside from Ivanovo (which was likely marginal) I can't think of any. Most official European F5/EF5's definitely didn't reach that intensity.
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Yeah, I've given my opinion before about the ones well before the modern era in France/Germany, but most of the modern ones are marginal F5s, if that. The damage pictures I've seen from Lublin (1931) were clearly below F5 strength (even ignoring the likely poor construction). Same for Treviso. If anything, violent tornadoes are probably less common in Central Europe than most official statistics suggest, imo.
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ESWD lists 5 F5s in Europe though I find that all of them have questionable ratings.
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Damage from the tornado
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Looks like Europe wasn't the only place to get an intense tornado recently
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Pretty much everywhere in the world except the place that's SUPPOSED to get them (the Plains/Midwest U.S.) has been getting them this spring/summer (with a few exceptions such as the DuPage Co., IL overnight one earlier this week).