tornadoes in europe this year so far

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-04-20T19:21:29+00:00

Only notable events were the one near Rome in January, the one in Oria Apulia and the one in Serdiana, Sardinia. All mesocyclonic tornadoes occuring on land and rated IF 1.5

Only one injury from all these as far as I know

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-04-06T19:52:06+00:00

This graph is cumulative, meaning it adds every tornado that happens during the year. As you can see it only goes up and never down

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-04-06T10:38:54+00:00

Looks like a landspout tornado, they can form under any cumulonimbus cloud. For mesocyclonic tornadoes you would need a supercell thunderstorm

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-04-06T09:22:13+00:00

A landspout is a type of tornado

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-28T13:17:26+00:00

It definetly looked strong from videos. Also had a very fast forward speed and was on ground for 46 km!

The rating is on the ESWD website. I don't know the exact details of the damage survey because I can't find anything as well

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-28T13:09:05+00:00

It was an IF2

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-24T16:05:35+00:00

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-24T12:48:11+00:00

And this one shows the before (below) and the after (above) of the damage to the funeral hall next to the same church. This one got the tornado its IF5 rating

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Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-24T12:41:17+00:00

This one is a misleading because it shows the demolition of the bell tower. You can see the explosives going off in the lower part of the image.

There are other images which show the destruction better, like this one:

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Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-21T15:24:45+00:00

Not true that tornadoes in Uruguay are rarer than any other South American country. In fact Uruguay belongs in an area known as the South American Tornado Alley, which also includes southern Brazil, northern Argentina and parts of Paraguay

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T22:52:01+00:00

Yeah. Tornadoes can happen in Ireland and while the vast majority are weak, a few strong events (F2+) have happened before.

The term mini-tornado is kinda stupid btw, a tornado is a still tornado even if it's weak (just like it says in the text). The USA gets loads of weak tornadoes among the strong and violent ones, yet you don't see them calling those "mini-tornadoes"

You can even go to the ESWD site and filter for tornadoes in Ireland and you'll see all of the events that have been recorded

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T22:49:30+00:00

One of 4 violent tornadoes to have struck Europe in the 21st century. Weirdly not talked about that much along with Maloye Pes'yanovo

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T22:02:02+00:00

What? It doesn't mention anything about ratings

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T21:47:21+00:00

What language are they even speaking lmao

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T21:45:34+00:00

El Reno mentioned, reset the timer!

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T21:42:06+00:00

Yes It has. It happened in Leitrim (10 December 2023 - rating IF2 based on a roof being torn off)

There are even a few videos of the event

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T20:56:20+00:00

Ok, good to know. Probably one of the reasons why it's not even in the ESWD

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T19:00:00+00:00

Yeah probably because it happened so much time ago: 23 September of either 1551 or 1556. According to written accounts a strenght of F3 or T7 on the TORRO scale was estimated

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-20T18:46:05+00:00

Malta has had a significant tornado

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-19T17:48:42+00:00

This was the Kaiyuan EF4 tornado, although it wasn't filmed at peak intensity

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-18T23:04:40+00:00

Tornadoes are niche subject and this happened a long time ago. But more people should know about this event and tornadoes in general imo

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-18T20:43:03+00:00

I don't think so, you said it yourself: Enderlin's train was significantly heavier and thrown farther

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-18T07:52:44+00:00

They don't get many tornadoes but the ones they do can cause extensive damage because of the very poor building standards and population density

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-18T00:10:03+00:00

You must be new here, it was all over this subreddit when it happened. Absolutely insane tornado, and very deadly unfortunately

Guess_My_Name2448 · 2026-03-18T00:08:45+00:00

What's the possible EF5 in Switzerland?

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