11/21/2007 DISC: Givat Olga, Israel

[Martin Wilke]

On Wednesday, 21st of October 2007, a strong thunderstorm with massive rainfalls occured in the city of Hadera in Israel. At about 3.38 pm I saw a funnel cloud growing downwards to becoming a tornado. I was in the southern part of Givat Olga neighborhood (westernmost part of Hadera, next to the Mediterranean Sea, http://maps.google.de/?ie=UTF8&t=k&om=1&ll=32.43363,34.887321&spn=0.029919,0.058365&z=14) and the tornado was in north-northwestern direction from me. I'm not good at estimating distances, but I think it was about 1 or 2 km away.

However, I didn't find any reports on the media about this. Can anyone confirm the tornado?

 

[Martin Wilke]

November

Of course it wasn't 21st of October but 21st of November. Sorry.

 

[Truman Boyer]

Did it look like this ?

you were near the mediterranean?

the only mention of a tornado or waterspout in israel is this one
it says it is from the day before but maybe they got the day wrong also !

see www.isrealweather.co.il

 

[Martin Wilke]

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you were near the mediterranean?

the only mention of a tornado or waterspout in israel is this one
it says it is from the day before but maybe they got the day wrong also !

see www.isrealweather.co.il

yes, I was about 500 metres away from the sea. It was on Wednesday; however, there have been severe thunderstorms on Monday and Tuesday as well.

I didn't find the mention on www.israelweather.co.il