Marko Korosec
EF4
Hey all,
I wanted to share this incredible tornado/waterspout I've observed on Friday evening here close to my home. There was an impressive setup and severe storms with very large to giant hail plus tornadoes were expected over northern Italy and Slovenia. And we got them, numerous giant hail reports with 5-8cm in diameter for our region and at least two tornadoes/waterspouts.
I was chasing whole afternoon and evening, got some nice dents...but the most impressive thing came at the evening with discrete supercell along the bow echo on the cold front. Waterspout formed just in front of me, location 15km NW of Trieste near city Sistiana, which is a great observing point for storms, I love it for lightning photography as you're a bit elevated above the sea and can get 3D effects of lightning strikes many times.
Anyway, here are some shots of this beautiful nighttime tornado over water... finally I got a nice tube also here in Europe on local chasing terrain
More photos from that day and also damage photos can be found here: http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=254
There were 2 deaths reported NW of this location along the coast in city Grado where numerous trees were down (those daytime images of damage) in camping area, fallen tree killed two tourists in the tent.
This chasing season 2008 is really incredible...with 10+ tornadoes in US during May and numerous great chasing days at home. Not to mention how nasty storms are this year in Slovenia and surrounding areas, major damage was done several times in the last 2 months. We never experienced something like this here, whole summer is like in the States with very high dewpoints (usually its quite normal) and numerous days with severe weather events.
Regards,
Marko
I wanted to share this incredible tornado/waterspout I've observed on Friday evening here close to my home. There was an impressive setup and severe storms with very large to giant hail plus tornadoes were expected over northern Italy and Slovenia. And we got them, numerous giant hail reports with 5-8cm in diameter for our region and at least two tornadoes/waterspouts.
I was chasing whole afternoon and evening, got some nice dents...but the most impressive thing came at the evening with discrete supercell along the bow echo on the cold front. Waterspout formed just in front of me, location 15km NW of Trieste near city Sistiana, which is a great observing point for storms, I love it for lightning photography as you're a bit elevated above the sea and can get 3D effects of lightning strikes many times.
Anyway, here are some shots of this beautiful nighttime tornado over water... finally I got a nice tube also here in Europe on local chasing terrain
More photos from that day and also damage photos can be found here: http://www.weather-photos.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=254
There were 2 deaths reported NW of this location along the coast in city Grado where numerous trees were down (those daytime images of damage) in camping area, fallen tree killed two tourists in the tent.
This chasing season 2008 is really incredible...with 10+ tornadoes in US during May and numerous great chasing days at home. Not to mention how nasty storms are this year in Slovenia and surrounding areas, major damage was done several times in the last 2 months. We never experienced something like this here, whole summer is like in the States with very high dewpoints (usually its quite normal) and numerous days with severe weather events.
Regards,
Marko
