Marko Korosec
EF4
Hello all,
It has been a great season in the US also for us during May and now severe weather is also occuring across Europe. Its incredible how much damage has been made across north Italy and Slovenia in the last two weeks from tornadoes, giant hail and downburst.
On July 13th, severe weather was expected in the south Alpine region with issued level 3 (high risk) over Slovenia. You can see detailed outlook from that day made by ESTOFEX here: http://estofex.org/cgi-bin/polygon/...e=2008071406_200807130812_3_stormforecast.xml
A strong supercell developed in north-central Slovenia, a lot of microburst and straight line winds damage was reported, while in a small village at elevation of about 700m and hilly terrain there was a suspicious damage, so we looked at it more into details. It became obvious, that a strong tornado occured there with badly damaged houses. I am now posting some images from several people, including myself being there yesterday, so hopefully a lot of you with much more experiences with tornado damage could give me some opinions regarding the power of this tornado.
Severe damage on this house... roof and upper level floor-garret completely removed!
This image shows "projectiles" of debris stucked into the ground...lot of debris all around.
Very good sign of tornado also deplumed trees...
Another badly damaged building...
The same view over the house on those images above (3, 4, 5) with major damage into the forest behind...
Here you can see more damage images from this tornado and from microbursts in wider are there (its Slovenian language, but images are international
):
http://forum.zevs.si/index.php?topic=1337.0
http://forum.zevs.si/index.php?topic=1339.0
As seen from the damage, there could be two tornadoes over that village, as damage was easily recognized in two paths, maybe multi-vortex tornado or something, but I am looking for some more opinion regarding its rating.
Thank you very much!
Marko
It has been a great season in the US also for us during May and now severe weather is also occuring across Europe. Its incredible how much damage has been made across north Italy and Slovenia in the last two weeks from tornadoes, giant hail and downburst.
On July 13th, severe weather was expected in the south Alpine region with issued level 3 (high risk) over Slovenia. You can see detailed outlook from that day made by ESTOFEX here: http://estofex.org/cgi-bin/polygon/...e=2008071406_200807130812_3_stormforecast.xml
A strong supercell developed in north-central Slovenia, a lot of microburst and straight line winds damage was reported, while in a small village at elevation of about 700m and hilly terrain there was a suspicious damage, so we looked at it more into details. It became obvious, that a strong tornado occured there with badly damaged houses. I am now posting some images from several people, including myself being there yesterday, so hopefully a lot of you with much more experiences with tornado damage could give me some opinions regarding the power of this tornado.
![_MG_5668.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fweather-photos.net%2FGozd-tornado_14jul08%2F_MG_5668.jpg&hash=fabcb019db4dc08b7f3592ea3ea95178)
![_MG_5701.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fweather-photos.net%2FGozd-tornado_14jul08%2F_MG_5701.jpg&hash=38b7f02952a23dc40abb2cd35a99af18)
Severe damage on this house... roof and upper level floor-garret completely removed!
![_MG_5702.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fweather-photos.net%2FGozd-tornado_14jul08%2F_MG_5702.jpg&hash=ba6a71b70afcd1469fa51bf653c57bfb)
![_MG_5720.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fweather-photos.net%2FGozd-tornado_14jul08%2F_MG_5720.jpg&hash=3c460b2a04507f757bc9755cf943664a)
![57.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fshrani.si%2Ff%2F2s%2F8W%2F4oBC9Z2h%2F57.jpg&hash=45be2f15708ce22c9cbc39908b1dc6b5)
This image shows "projectiles" of debris stucked into the ground...lot of debris all around.
![_MG_5705.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fweather-photos.net%2FGozd-tornado_14jul08%2F_MG_5705.jpg&hash=1e1a87c2016b7d69ccafa1ef9f4d32a9)
Very good sign of tornado also deplumed trees...
![50.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fshrani.si%2Ff%2FB%2F12n%2F10Mm7tuC%2F50.jpg&hash=3d7bd90bd2abe6b1fa8cec8a62249873)
Another badly damaged building...
![53.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fshrani.si%2Ff%2FT%2FQI%2FziFZrea%2F53.jpg&hash=47ba270ea63a410984146ac708710153)
![54.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fshrani.si%2Ff%2F31%2FpY%2F3E1kaWv8%2F54.jpg&hash=a69ed68e733b539b86ff8c01ec9beab6)
The same view over the house on those images above (3, 4, 5) with major damage into the forest behind...
![klemn1.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fshrani.si%2Ff%2F1S%2FCi%2F2V48isNm%2Fklemn1.jpg&hash=ded8447037a57b2985a241a1b5eedbe8)
Here you can see more damage images from this tornado and from microbursts in wider are there (its Slovenian language, but images are international
http://forum.zevs.si/index.php?topic=1337.0
http://forum.zevs.si/index.php?topic=1339.0
As seen from the damage, there could be two tornadoes over that village, as damage was easily recognized in two paths, maybe multi-vortex tornado or something, but I am looking for some more opinion regarding its rating.
Thank you very much!
Marko