Nice tornadoes in Italy

[Andrea Griffa]

Hi all
Just wanted report 4 nice tornadoes touching down in Italy on June 19.
The strongest one, possibly of EF2 rating, hit the city of Fassò near Venice.

Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hvamW_LTcI

http://www.youreporter.it/video_tromba_d_aria_a_Fosso_1

 

[Bill Hark]

Andrea, thank you for posting the links as I have not heard of those tornadoes. Impressive video. Was there any warning or prediction of severe storms?

Bill Hark

 

[Menno van der Haven]

Wow! Great footage of these tornadoes! EF2 tornadoes are not very common in Europe (perhaps a few dozen per year).
What about the damage and victims (hope not) in the town of Fasso? .

 

[Andrea Griffa]

Andrea, thank you for posting the links as I have not heard of those tornadoes. Impressive video. Was there any warning or prediction of severe storms?

Bill Hark

It's a pleasure, Bill!

Too bad we didn't issue any high level prediciton, as we issued a general risk category forecast. There was no vertical and directional shear, but a low pressure was forming coupled with a short wave through with good lapse rates. Often in Italy tornadoes have to interact with mountains and low level dynamics, wich are very difficoult to forecast.

 

[Andrea Griffa]

Wow! Great footage of these tornadoes! EF2 tornadoes are not very common in Europe (perhaps a few dozen per year).
What about the damage and victims (hope not) in the town of Fasso? .

Hi Menno
We didn't have any deaths as far as the last news, probably some injuried people.

 

[Marko Korosec]

Wow impressive footage, thanks for sharing them, Andrea!

 

[Andrea Griffa]

Wow impressive footage, thanks for sharing them, Andrea!

Sure!! Man, see this one; this is just awesome.

http://www.facebook.com/video/?id=349230415575#!/video/video.php?v=1461493254025