heywoodu 13,560 Posted June 25, 2021 Author #6671 Share Posted June 25, 2021 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 OlympicIRL and NikolaB 2 If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikolaB 395 Posted June 25, 2021 #6672 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Tornado in Central Europe??? WTF??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted June 25, 2021 Author #6673 Share Posted June 25, 2021 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. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikolaB 395 Posted June 25, 2021 #6674 Share Posted June 25, 2021 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon 1,702 Posted June 25, 2021 #6675 Share Posted June 25, 2021 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heywoodu 13,560 Posted June 25, 2021 Author #6676 Share Posted June 25, 2021 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 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. If you'd like to help our fellow Totallympics member Bruna Moura get to the 2026 Winter Olympics, after her car crash on the way to the 2022 Olympics, every tiny bit of help would be greatly appreciated! Full story and how to help can be found here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hckošice 13,267 Posted June 25, 2021 #6677 Share Posted June 25, 2021 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon 1,702 Posted June 25, 2021 #6678 Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 hour ago, heywoodu said: Also not likely to be true, depending on the definition of a tornado 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grassmarket 2,757 Posted June 25, 2021 #6679 Share Posted June 25, 2021 4 minutes ago, Dragon said: It was based on this, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3QTh1mRGDNg16cDYHgCNP0G/do-you-live-in-the-british-tornado-alley 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon 1,702 Posted June 25, 2021 #6680 Share Posted June 25, 2021 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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