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Damn, major tornado in the Czech Republic, F3 or possibly even F4 (F5 is the strongest on the current scale), that is huge...several fatalities, absolutely huge damage in a number of towns and villages.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_South_Moravia_tornado

 

 

 

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17 minutes ago, NikolaB said:

Tornado in Central Europe??? WTF???

 

 

And immediately it's such a monster...wind speeds of over 300 kilometers per hour and as you could see in the video, strong, brick walls just ripped apart like a piece of paper.

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F4 class tornado is very rare in continental areas far from the oceans and seas. So it is  very unusual that tornado developed wings with speeds over 330 km/h in the heart of European continent. The intensity of the destruction is at the level of the apocalypse

 

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25 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And immediately it's such a monster...wind speeds of over 300 kilometers per hour and as you could see in the video, strong, brick walls just ripped apart like a piece of paper.

"the UK gets an average of 30-50 tornadoes a year. That’s more tornadoes per land area than anywhere else in the world (except – weirdly – the Netherlands.)"

 

One of the strangest facts I know...

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44 minutes ago, Dragon said:

"the UK gets an average of 30-50 tornadoes a year. That’s more tornadoes per land area than anywhere else in the world (except – weirdly – the Netherlands.)"

 

One of the strangest facts I know...

Also not likely to be true, depending on the definition of a tornado :p 

 

As far as I know, there's usually sort of a minimum wind speed required for it to officially be called a tornado and that's barely ever happening here, certainly not multiple times each year. The last one that actually made to the news was in Amsterdam in 2019, but wasn't really a tornado, more like a local and fairly small whirlwind with speeds of under 100 km/h.

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Terrible, It is already the most tragic storm in Europe in the last 37 years with sadly also 5 casualties.

 

The whole day they are showing the damages, it passed only about 40-50km from Slovak borders, however, supercellular storms are expected in our country today, the whole night (in my area) and tomorrow...hope and pray it will not be so disastrous and tragic.

 

Anyway several part of the country are already experiencing severe storm and hailstones

 

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Also not likely to be true, depending on the definition of a tornado :p 

 

As far as I know, there's usually sort of a minimum wind speed required for it to officially be called a tornado and that's barely ever happening here, certainly not multiple times each year. The last one that actually made to the news was in Amsterdam in 2019, but wasn't really a tornado, more like a local and fairly small whirlwind with speeds of under 100 km/h.

It was based on this, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QTh1mRGDNg16cDYHgCNP0G/do-you-live-in-the-british-tornado-alley

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4 minutes ago, Dragon said:

British tornados, like British blizzards, heatwaves & droughts, would be laughed to scorn in many other parts of the world.  Only the sea-storms off the North coast of Scotland attain anything like global respectability.

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6 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

British tornados, like British blizzards, heatwaves & droughts, would be laughed to scorn in many other parts of the world.  Only the sea-storms off the North coast of Scotland attain anything like global respectability.

You're forgetting the world class drizzle...

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