Strong tornadoes hit North Italy on june 6

[Andrea Griffa]

Hi all
Yesterday the northern part of Italy was hit by at least 3 confirmed tornadoes, two of them belonging to the "strong" category.

The first was a nice con tornado I witnessed in open field in NW Italy. The other two touched near Venice (near Pordenone and in Riese )

Now, it would be nice rating them by watching the numerous youtube videos: it's important that I tell you that italian buildings have a different structure in comparison with most of the american ones. Every kinda building you are gonna see in this video is made of reinforced concrete (that's one of the reason why you have to sell a kidney to buy a new home in this country), so the big damage you'll see has to be valuated with this perspective.
So, try to give a look to this video and try to rate this tornado (Riese)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqwKdIKtgGs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R03hoHLCZCE

http://forum.meteonetwork.it/thunderstorms-chasers/106380-provincia-treviso-danni-5.html

http://www.postimage.org/aV1wX3b9.jpg

 

[STurner]

IMO the first video of the tornado that did damage appeared to be a high-end (F2)EF2 maybe low-end (F3)EF3. The second tornado of the video that did damage seemed to be about a lower/middle (F3)EF3. Now I cant tell exactly what of structures those were but I am sure Tim Marshall could give you a lot better idea than I could.

 

[Andrea Griffa]

IMO the first video of the tornado that did damage appeared to be a high-end (F2)EF2 maybe low-end (F3)EF3. The second tornado of the video that did damage seemed to be about a lower/middle (F3)EF3. Now I cant tell exactly what of structures those were but I am sure Tim Marshall could give you a lot better idea than I could.

Tanks Shane, I think the same of you. At any rate the second video is always the same tornado (Riese tornado)