Europe's Tornado Alleys
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- Опубліковано 29 тра 2024
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Contents:
0:00 Intro - NLM CityHopper Flight 431
1:36 The English Tornado Alley
2:42 1954 London Tornado
3:18 1981 Great Britain Tornado Outbreak
3:50 2005 Birmingham Tornado Hotspot
5:00 1091 London Tornado
5:30 Suffolk, Barking, Jersey Tornado
6:42 Ground News
8:08 The 1764 Woldegk Germany Tornado
10:50 North Europe Tornado Alley
11:02 2015 Butzow Tornado
11:24 Recent Tornadoes in Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany
12:25 France Tornadoes - 1967 Palluel F5 Tornado
3:14 Netherlands Tornado Alley
14:18 Polish Tornado Alley and 2021 S Moravia Tornado
14:15 Italy Tornado Alleys
15:38 2015 Italy Tornado
16:08 1970 Italy Ferry Disaster
16:40 1930 Montello F5 Tornado
17:20 Other Parts of Europe
Crazy Europe Tornado Footage Used in Vid:
Tornado in Poland - StephaneJF
• Inside a Tornado in Po...
Multi-vortex 2019 Luxembourg Tornado - UwBe International
• 09.08.2019 - Multivort...
January 2024 Belgium Tornado - Disaster Compilations
• IF1.5 Tornado Hits Onz...
Strong Tornado in NRW Germany May 2022 - Marco Kaschuba
• Strong Tornado in NRW ...
2015 Italy Tornado Powerflash - On Demand News
• AMAZING PICTURES: Torn...
Tornado in Zierikzee, Netherlands June 27, 2022 - Marco Kaschuba
• Tornado in Zierikzee, ...
UK tornado Intercept:
• Tornado captured on da...
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here before the kids say first
I found a FU on Sardinia, NW of Cagliari from July 1,200 on Tornado Archive
Theres only 31 days in July @@brianoconnor1721
@@-Stormiest-3rd
DO THE MALAYSIAN TORNADO
THE FUCKING MINECRAFT FOOTAGE I CANNOT
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it also caught me off guard x,D
For some dumb reason I was thinking about that minecraft mod. Right before it showed up on screen.
When he said, “while destroying an entire birch forest,” I thought Yes! Get rid of those! Then remembered real birch trees are pretty. Minecraft.
"If you want to see a tornado in europe move to" * starts zooming in to my city
few days after this video and my area is in a level 2 risk for tornadoes and wind according to estofex (22/02)
🤣🤣🤣🤣 sorry I couldn’t help myself
But in all seriousness, have you ever seen Tornadoes 🌪 in your area??
@@justfrank5661 once it was a tiny one far in the distance, but i only live here for 14 years. My dad lives here for much longer and he has seen 4 small tornadoes. (They are nothimg in comparison to the tornadoes in the u.s
I have witnessed a tornado and have been in a 'Tornado' that wasn't powered by a supercell.
same dude, live there aswell😂😂
i live near Haarlem, have had some storms but sadly no tornadoes
8:56 the minecraft clip made me laugh when you mentioned cobblestone 😂
Hello there.
As a French guy who live near Belgium I'm a little bit surprised that you didn't mention the Bihucourt Tornado of October 2022.
It was the only EF3 of an outbreak, this long track tornado is the longest confirmed tornado path in Europe, (206 km or 128 miles) had a maximum width of 1km, windspeed between 220 and 270 km/h, and didn't kill anyone.
This tornado started at the east of Rouen (France) hit 104 different town and finished in Le Hainaut (Belgium).
A french UA-camr called chroniques chaotiques talk about this tornado 1 year ago 😢
@@Metalkura333 Yes, I really enjoy the content of Chris
Surprisingly it's not on the tornado archive website
@UA-camrBack really ? Sadly the European's Tornados are quite badly references
@@theovilleminot5508 the french ones are really well documented on the french official strong meteorological events website called Keraunos (Bihucourt's one is there too)
To put into perpective how insane the Woldegk tornado must have been, the report by Genzmer includes observations such as:
- Removal of crops, grass and the top 10cm of soil
- Stumps of previously cut oak trees were ripped out of the ground and carried away
- A boulder of which about 'half the size of a man' stuck out of the ground was moved
- tree branches were found that were covered in ice (meaning they must have been lifted above freezing level for a substantial amount of time)
thats a good idea
@@magdalenawiktor2021it’s not an idea, it is the real thing
Sounds like the tornado corkscrewed into the earth and easily a maxed out upper level EF5, it must’ve had an enormous hook edge and must’ve been a very well organized and violent storm to produce such a violent tornado.
If anyone ever asked for an F6 tornado, I would say: "You can't have more then F5, since it's already total plane ground destruction. The tornado would have to literally dig into the ground to be above F5 destructive."
Well, here we go then, this is the closest thing to something that would constitute an F6 recorded.
From his videos it seems that a decent number of F5s in the US have ripped up roads and concrete like sidewalks and driveways. Pretty wild. I always wonder if they scour the ground more when there is a ton of debris in the tornado. Basically like sandblasting something as opposed to just air.
I have a miniature 'tornado alley' right in my back garden here in Ireland! Back in the early 2000's an F1 formed in my area, went directly behind the house and into the neighboring area and ripped off roof tiles, flipped a couple of vehicles and did very minor damage, but it was a confirmed tornado all the same. Since then many wind events have whirled through the area.
Edit I checked that website you're using and the data is there for it! Very cool
At what place in ireland is it at?
@@Soggycatgt You're asking where he lives
@TheCerealArsonist who really cares? I live in Chaska, Minnesota. Oh no the boogie man is coming
Yeah, hope he does a video of tornadoes in Ireland, I heard few, don't think I've seen one, but heard there's some in Ireland around the 00's and 2010's tbh
@@jacobthayer236the boogie form
will be in the form of a tornado
My husband and myself lived in a high rise 19-floor (20-floor in the US) tower block in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, UK. From where we lived, we could see Dudley and Birmingham in a straight line. I can't recall the exact year, but it was the first time we ever heard of tornados in the Midlands, when two tornados hit Seven Oaks in Birmingham and Dudley. I recall seeing it on the news. It took roofs off houses, demolished walls, trees and cars. Both were fairly short-lived, but obviously strong enough to create mayhem.
I recall standing in the kitchen with my husband which faced Dudley and Birmingham, on the same day as we heard about it and looking across towards Dudley, which sits between Wolverhampton and Birmingham, and we saw what looked suspiciously like a funnel cloud forming. I don't think it came to anything, though.
Later that night it was quite blustery in Wolverhampton, and we were sitting watching TV when we heard the strangest sound against the side of the building. Our lounge formed the corner of the block and the wall where our settee was, along with one side of the kitchen, faced Birmingham. Anyway, there was, a kind of rumbling rotational sound akin to hearing a washing machine on spin cycle. We looked at each other. Was it what we thought it was? It didn't last very long, but it was enough to give us the bug eyes. Never heard anything like it before or since (We've lived in Bristol since 2000). We got up to look, but it was dark, so we saw nothing. Always wondered about that. It was very distinctive.
Thanks for your comprehensive video on European tornadoes! As a storm chaser from the Netherlands, people often find our hobby confusing, especially since tornadoes are considered rare even for Europeans and are often thought to be limited to the USA. Sadly, the terrain here makes it a bit difficult to chase storms. One of the most active regions recently in terms of weather warnings was central Germany, but we tend to avoid it because the tree coverage makes it impossible to see approaching storms, as well as the crowded highways in this part of Germany.
Regarding the June 1967 outbreak you mentioned around the 13:00 mark, I had the opportunity to meet a victim of the F3 tornado in Tricht, who shared the entire story with me. What is most bone-chilling to me is the fact that people in Europe do not receive the same type of warnings as people in America, and the culture is also not as prepared to act upon emergencies like this. She mentioned that she had heard about tornadoes in northern France earlier that day, and the weather report had mentioned these storms coming to the Netherlands, but not a single person would dare to predict that it would strike her town and kill seven of her neighbors. As it approached, she originally only saw hay and straw and froze when she realized what was happening. Her husband at the time remained more level-headed and told her to get the baby out of the crib upstairs and to lay down downstairs. His advice was crucial, as the crib upstairs was pierced through with wooden debris from the tornado. There was no alarm or any other warning, except for a weatherman which warned generically for "bad weather."
Her house was on the corner of a housing block. Hers was left standing with only windows blown out, but the entire row of houses that connected to her backyard was knocked over, which made it possible for her to suddenly see the butchers at the end of the street from her window. She saw one of the neighbors hanging in a tree and lost people she had talked to just hours prior.
Other interesting tornadoes in the Netherlands are the Borculo and Neede tornadoes, which struck in the same area in 1925 and 1927, respectively, and are among the strongest recorded in Dutch history. The one that has left the most visual scar up to this day is the one that struck the Dom Church in Utrecht in 1674, leveling the entire middle portion of the section, which left the church tower as an independently standing structure. The debris ended up being a meeting spot for gay men (and later for their executions), and the gay memorial monument that is visible on the Dom Square nowadays is directly linked to this historical tornado. I do love the tornadoes you mentioned in your video though, and I think it really shows how well you have done your research!
Anyway, I am worried about when the next EF-4/EF-5 will strike in Europe because, as I mentioned, people do not know when to expect it or what to do in case it happens. It is a very realistic natural disaster to occur within Europe, but also probably the most overlooked. I am glad to have your video now to draw attention to it and to show people who are surprised by my interest and concerns that it is somewhat legitimate.
I almost got hit by the mile wide tornado that hit tuscaloosa in 2010. Plus its about to be tornado season here again. I was back home from college so i didnt get hit though.
Wow! I wish I knew about the Dom Church 1674 tornado before I made this video. I would have mentioned it! That's crazy that they just removed that section of the church and never rebuilt it.
@@SwegleStudios Admittedly more recently it is up to debate what precisely caused the collapse and it is kind of ambiguous whether it was a tornado. I personally think a cyclic supercell or a system with embedded supercells would make most sense given the line of damage from the 'summer storm', as well as this damage being so highly specific to a small part of the building. Regardless of that it is interesting to see a case of how weather has directly affected history!
I don't think we should be worried about actual tornadoes. Throughout my entire life i've never seen an actual tornado here. Yes i've seen a funnel starting to form once but it never became something significant and close to the ground.
Intense weather such as tornadoes, thunderstorms etc are rare here anyways. During holidays in the dry Mediterranean, or even parts of germany and switzerland, i've always experienced weather that was way more extreme than the weather that occurs in our country. But the danger for the Netherlands is not how extreme the weather is, but for how long it will go on. I'm sick of wearing boots in my living room 😂
I often hear the same thoughts when I tell people that I am a stormchaser/spotter here in Austria...
I'd love to see your take on the Bangladesh F5 tornado. Always been curious as to the weather patterns that caused it, if they were normal or a total anomaly, and how much (if any) the Bay of Bengal has a contributing effect similar to the Gulf of Mexico.
It was an EF4 wasn’t it?
Very similar setup, with Himalayans to the west, just like our Rockies! AND not anomolous time-wise; that tornado was at the beginning of the monsoon in April (similar to North America, our big tornado season starts b4 the hot season).
@@sumeetbeniwal6365 It had estimated winds of 210 to 260 mph which is F4 on the old scale but EF5 on the new one.
@evanredmon3877 the wind speed conversions don't work like that when comparing the F and EF scales - the EF scale was created because the F scale vastly overestimated the wind speeds needed to inflict damage at different levels. it would still be an F4
@@THERES_BEES_EVERYWHERE I'm well aware of that, and I'm not converting anything. The scales are simply different; there is no "conversion". This is about only estimated wind speeds and not damage, which is ultimately what the F and EF scales are both based upon. It's an impossible thing to compare, as Bangladesh has different building codes, construction methods, materials etc. than the US. But if the windspeeds were estimated between 210-260 MPH, that is clearly on the EF5 side of the scale. The original scale had 260 MPH as the dividing line between F4 and F5, so you'd have to say that, prior to the creation of the EF scale in 2007, this would have fallen in the high range of an F4, based on estimated wind speeds alone and not damage assessments.
Managed to intercept a Tornado in the UK just after Christmas - while looking out our bedroom window at 11pm as the wind was getting extremely loud. It went right over the house, ears popped, it entirely re-arranged the garden against the east wall and removed a fair few roof slates. We were lucky as it also ripped roofing from buildings 500m before us and 500m after us, seriously damaging around 100 homes.
It came out as a T5 (low EF3) but thankfully nobody was hurt.
Was that the one In stalybridge?
Interesting video.
There is another interesting fact about the history of tornadoes in Europe:
Until WWII German scientists have been the world leading scientists in the feeld of tornado research. They wrote the first books about it.
Tornado research in Germany was stopped completely with WWII until the 90s. That's why many Germans think we didn't have tornadoes in the past or just a few.
Greetings from the German Tornado Alley 🙂
Thanks for watching! As a history guy, I was very curious about tornadoes in Germany during and before WWII but unfortunately I couldn't find much info!
There are a number of interesting case studies or at least articles and photos from newspaper archives on strong to violent tornadoes on July 1st, 1891 (Süchteln-Anrath, Germany), August 7th, 1898 (Cologne, Germany), 10th, 1925 (Borculo, Netherlands) and June 1st, 1927 (Neede, Netherlands), among others. Some of these tornadoes actually occurred as part of larger severe weather outbreaks with very large hail as well.
Great video, btw @@SwegleStudios This is a nice overview of some European tornado history.
The most terrifying part about European tornadoes is the fact that a lot of areas in Europe are made out of wood or are forested, meaning that the tornado just drags the wood around and can just throw it around. It definitely would be terrifying to experience
More places are made of Stone generally
That's correct. More houses in America are build with wood and less with stone. In europe only the roof is a weak point@@derk486
@@derk486 He is talking about our woods - not our houses. Tornado alley in the USA has at least the fortune to not have many trees standing around. The areas where Tornadoes love to be in Europe have huge forest - and often harvested ones with birks, which means flat rooters = easy pickup for a tornado.
Sometimes Hungary and Romania become tornado targets too.
@@acmenipponair yeah i suppose there's no great plains like the ud
I love the minecraft clip with the weather2 mod when you mention ''cobble stone'' xd 8:56
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I live in the Po Valley in N Italy. July of last year was crazy. There has been a week with continuos storms and supercells that brought giant to extreme hail. The record for the largest hailstone in europe has been beaten two times in the same week. 16 cm and then 19 cm (7-8 inches).
Tornadoes do happen as well but there is not nearly enough radial velocity radar coverage, unfortunately. A few years ago an F2 tornado formed just a few kms from where I live and I can still see pieces of wood stuck in the wall of an abandoned house in the countryside that was hit.
There is not enough weather awareness here. That same tornado destroyed a small airport and the people stood there filming like statues until the tornado arrived and it was too late.
I live in north Germany, and I'm also a weather and tornado freak like you😅. In my opinion the most active regions are west Germany and north Italy. Especially north Italy gets tons of supercells in the summer. I also like your videos a lot😅keep it up!
I remember being in Luxembourg in the summer of 2018 and being surprised at how similar the weather was there to where I live (eastern North Carolina) haha. Not quite as intense but I was totally surprised to find out that Europe actually gets thunderstorms like we do 😂
Thanks so much!
Living near Luxemburg in Germany, I think the amount of Tornados we get actually picked up over the last years. Theres practically No Summer where we dont get a Tornado or two within like 30 km.
Oh so u must loved when he dropped this video 👍 awesome 👌
Yes the Po plain into the Veneto plain is the most dangerous supercell area in Europe! Germany and France also have a few tornado alleys. Poland as well.
as someone from europe obsessed with tornadoes, thank u so much for making this video
Ancient accounts of tornados are my favourite kind of source when looking back at European storm history. Something about the huge scale of such a thing and the completely unexplainable, unfathomable nature of a tornado to an 18th-century Englishman. One such account from the 'Great Malvern Tornado of 1761' really adds a layer of dramaticism and paints the tornado as a truly bewildering and awesome sight to behold. The language is so quaint, its actually kind of funny:
'At a quarter past four in the afternoon, a most astonishing phaenomen was seen at Great Malvern, in Worcestershire, and parts adjacent. It had the appearance of a volcano, and was attended with a noise as if 100 forges had been at work at once; it filled the air with a nausseous sulpherous smell; it rose from the mountains in the form of a prodigious thick smoak, and proceeded to the valleys, where it rose and fell several times; and at length it subsided in a turnep-field, where the leaves of the turneps, leaves of the trees, dirt, sticks, &c. filled the air and flew higher than the highest hills. It was preceded with the most dreadful storm of thunder and lightning ever heard in the memory of man, and spread a universal consternation, wherever it was seen or heard.'
'ever heard in the memory of man.' LOL when did we stop using such great and over-the-top sentences?
Blimey! I'm from Malvern and I'd not heard of that one! I know there was a historical tornado that occurred over Fernill Heath in Worcester, which apparently got to two miles wide. I'm also sure that I witnessed a very brief tornado in Malvern once. I was out for a walk when a storm was approaching. In the distance I saw what looked like a funnel cloud forming, and I'm pretty sure it made touch down for a brief second or so. I wasn't quick enough on my phone to get a photo.
Tornadoes really are quite common in Birmingham (UK) - I witnessed a small one, and my friends did not believe me, but a few years later the 2005 nado tore all of their roofs in the same area. Local construction workers thought all their christmases had come at once! Furthermore, a respectably sized tornado was spotted in Edinburgh Scotland recently. The footage was impressive.
I live in one of the towns in western Germany where that tornado came through on May 20th, 2022. The footage shown at 12:05 was taken in my town. I was at work and thus in the area it went through when it happened. It was raining heavily and then I heard a load noise, I thought it was diffuse crowd cheering from the guy watching football a room over. I looked outside and the trees that have always provided shade were toppled, just folded over. Roof parts from the neighboring school went through the air, and one tile went through a window and bounced around in the top of the stairwell where it hit. Dust was blown back into the building's ventilation system, which triggered the fire alarm system, causing the smoke hatches to open which were subsequently ripped open far past where they were meant to go. As we were fixing things up temporarily, the fire alarm was blaring constantly and chainsaws could be heard from all over. We were still lucky. In a village, the top was lifted right off a church's tower, and the roof was moved by a few inches. At one farm, a stable was completely destroyed. We were lucky it rained so much just before it happened. All we got was a storm warning, we all had no idea of how to act in a tornado and we didn't know there'd be one. In neighboring Paderborn, the people were not so lucky. They were just as clueless as we were and there was only light rain, so many people were outside while it happened.
As a tornado junkie from switzerland I'm so happy you covered those events over here in europe.
Thanks for the great video man and maybe you could make a part two with the recent bulgarian tornado, the pforzheim tornado or the two swiss F4 which happened at the same location over 80 years apart. It would be appreciated :)
A video on tornadoes striking the same place twice(or more) would be really neat. Here in America we'd immediately think of El Reno, Oklahoma. Hit with a devastating EF5 in 2011, then hit with the widest tornado in recorded history in 2013... then another EF3 in 2019.
Funfact: The 1981 GB Outbreak is the largest European Tornado Outbreak in history and tied for the largest in November
In France, we have other "tornado alleys" than the northern part. The most obvious one is the Toulon-Hyères area, where waterspouts often come on land and sometmes, make damages. It is not rare than in only a few hours, three, four, five or more tornadoes occur in this very small area. In fact, all the Mediterranean Coast is a "hotspot'' with some cities being known for tornadoes. Hyères of course, but also Cannes, Frontignan, Sète or Bastia, in Corsica.
There's also a big hotspot on the Atlantic Coast, with Vendée, Charente-Maritime and Gironde being the most exposed départements. This is because of a peculiar situation, with those regions being exposed for summer thunderstorms, but also for winter storms, where tornadoes often occur. For example, in late december 2020, there was an outbreak with at least five tornadoes on the western side of the country.
Normandy is also an interesting place for tornadoes, especially the eastern part, as well for Basque Country, quite active these last years (but almost exclusively with very weak tornadoes). And there's some places that seems to attract tornadoes. I have already mentionned Hyères and Sète for example, but there is also Tours, with four tornadoes in less than a century, including en EF2 and an EF3. As well, some places have been hit by two tornadoes in a very short time, sometimes less than a year. The most recent example is a small town in Normandy called Gournay-en-Bray, with a first tornado in the very famous october 2022 outbreak and another one in january 2023, less than three months later.
I'm spanish, i live in eastern spain, and there are way more tornados than reported. Teruel provincie 3 Likely EF3 tornadoes in 1982, 1999 and 2003. Also every year its "common" to see a couple tornado reports mostly in eastern spain. Due to our lack of plains, we have plenty of supercells but tornados are rare to see. Also we dont have many storm chasers so there are storms which we can only see on radar (we dont have velocity neither). This year (2023) we had 3 reported tornadic supercells. There are many impressive storms in spain but no one chase them and the mayority of them take place in very rural areas 🫤
Hey, greetings from Paderborn. I was actually here when the Tornado hit. Very spooky and chaotic day but what stuck with me is how people came together to help each other
There was actually a tornado in Leitrim, Ireland last year! It made the news and everything!
Hell, I didn’t know we had so many tornadoes- a British person
Same 🤣. Still haven't seen one.
I actually live in the Netherlands, and in 2019 my house was hit by a tornado. A window got ripped clean off and hit a car, and there were multiple trees pulled out of the ground. There was a literal path of destruction in my village. a few months ago i also got some pictures of a tornado forming near my house
I lived in East Germany, (Saxony - Anhalt) in Großkorbetha as a Kid between 2003 - 2010 and i encountert 3 Tornados all 3 of them didnt hit the Village named Großkorbetha but there where very close. But the other location named Spergau (Bahnhof) was getting hit by a Tornado and where it touched down was on a Garden Area (Garden areas a Gardens where you can rent a Garden for a couple of bucks in a month) and I was there with my Family, and it was a very terrifying Situation because there are in such area's no Shelters no Buildings where you can hide from a fckin Tornado all we can do was hoping that this thing is not straight moving to us...
5 Gardens where destroyed nobody got hurt or died, our Garden was not hit by it but it was again, very close...
*The woods are also destroyed
At the End of the Story we moved out from that Place not of the Tornados it was because of money Problems and after the 3. Tornado am getting realy nervous til this day when i see dark clouds and notice strong Wind.
And i hate the German Wheater Channels for not giving a fck about Tornados, yeah they are rare but they exsist here and when people see a Tornado in germany they just standing near the window and holding a Camera and have no ideal what to do.
And for the People asking:
No, the Tornados are not very strong atleast the last one was F1 the other 2 uhhmm i have no idea maybe F0 or F1
Here are the location where i lived:
maps.app.goo.gl/2HDogvGRVdEFwtHV9
And here is where the 3. Tornado touched down:
maps.app.goo.gl/hdv4XgMnGdqpTHc18
Edit: sorry for my bad englisch
Alterr Großkorbethe! Bin aus Quifte, aber der einzige Tornado an den ich mich erinnern kann, war glaube 2015 der in Halle
@@icedouteyes4997 Hey das is ja selten hier, ja wie gesagt ich kann mich da nicht mehr so genau daran erinnern aber ich bin mir sicher das es 3 waren zu den Zeiten. Vllt jetzt nicht so stark das man diese dokumentiert hat.
I think your English is very good. My German is terrible. Stay safe.
Not a tornado, but in the UK, there was a 1987 hurricane that a beloved weatherman - Michael Fish - tried to ease the public's minds by playing down. He famously went on national television to say there would be no hurricane and people didn't need to worry, only for one to occur and 18 people to perish. It's still a huge part of his biographies when you look him up online. All this to say, a lot of people in the UK and in wider Europe don't realize the severity of the weather phenomena we can experience - even beloved forecasters!
It was not a hurricane, common misconception. It’s pretty much impossible for any tropical storm or hurricane to stay tropical this far north. It was just an extremely powerful Extratropical system, that in fact was not the remnants of any tropical system. So in reality, it was just like any other low pressure system we always get in the UK, just much stronger than average.
There was cyclical scouring in the ground actually. I know someone who worked at that time in the Met Office, and to this day there's still debate on if actual tornadoes happened. The cyclical scouring would suggest yes, they did happen, though I've had a hard time finding sources outside of people who worked at the met Office in 87
@@jacekatalakis8316Often you’ll get tornadoes associated with convection in deep extratropical lows. Just look at storm ciaran and the jersey tornado in December last year.
Indeed the great storm was not a hurricane and to put the blame squarely on Micheal Fish is a bit daft. Modelling at the time was really poor and didn’t pick up on the small low that developed.
The Great Storm of 1987 that reduced Sevenoaks in Kent to one oak... It wasnʻt a hurricane, though it had the power of one, but an extra-tropical storm that blew up out of seemingly nowhere in the Bay of Biscay. There were still trees down on the ground in my local park in the early 1990s that had been felled by that storm - they were left because they werenʻt in anyoneʻs way.
Even though the South Coast gets all the attention, the storm was UK wide however, the videos and accounts of shipping crews up near Scapa Flow and out in the North Sea are both amazing, and, terrifying. The hurricane myth is not helped by Michael Fish, the weathr guy in question who mentioned about hurricanes before launching into his infamous forecast. Despite everything good he did, he's only ever remembered for that forecast. The story has changed a bit over the years, firstly being a caller who was going to Florida and worried about hurricanes there, to it was a family member, to it was a white lie, and there's various versions depending on who you ask.@@Teverell
It's so nice to see a video talking about the tornadoes in europe. Living in North East Germany, it's also great to see someone talk about the Bützow and Woldeck Tornadoes. At least in most videos I have seen, they are often forgotten when it comes to tornadoes in Germany.
I remember hearing about the Bützow Tornado on my way to school. It was actually the first time I became aware of tornadoes happening in my area. I also know someone who lived there at the time. I called him and asked if everything was okay. He didn't even know the tornado happened because he lived in the part of the town that thankfully wasn't affected
There's something very amusing about the "I better do metric since we're talking about europe" message coming up during the segement on England the one country in Europe that uses miles!
Great video as always, interesting to hear about the Tornado hotspots in areas outside of the states!
Great video man! Never knew about that plane crash incident, very interesting but so unfortunate for those involved. I think a reason for why the UK gets a lot of weak tornadoes is that a lot of them form from squall lines (QLCS), which tend to be weaker than ones formed from supercells. But there some other notable events like in 1913 in Edwardsville, Wales where there was an F3. Also on June 28th, 2012 very photogenic supercell tornadoes in Lincolnshire, England.
As an English tornado enthusiast I greatly appreciated this. Its my dream to one day see a tornado, though hopefully one that doesn't claim any lives. Our Tornados as you said are incredibly weak for the most part. I was gutted a few years back when a small Tornado occurred just miles from where I work, I never saw a thing. But it's very hilly where I live in West/North Yorkshire, North England.
I remember as a child I saw a tornado in Essex, in the U.k.
Ugh, as much as I love watching tornado videos and reading and learning about them the words "tornado season is upon us" fills me with a sense of impending dread... Here in Kentucky we've been hit pretty hard in recent years, the older I get the more terrified I am of tornado season.
That SO-CALLED E-F4 (I still think it flirted with E-F5 ) Mayfield Monster!....yikes...That sucker was as every bit as momentous as that 2011 Tuscaloosa Twister...
@@brettrobinson2901 That thing was the stuff of nightmares. Luckily for me I live in eastern Kentucky where the tornado activity is nowhere near as bad. But my property got hit by the 2012 West Liberty tornado, never been more scared in my life.
Same, lol.
@@brettrobinson2901 Those of us old enough to remember remember the undisputed F5s of 1974 in Kentucky. My dad watched the F5 Sayler Park tornado from his job at the Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky Airport before it crossed the river into Salyer Park. And I had friends in Louisville who witnessed the tornado there that day (which was, granted, only F4).
Been with you since you had a few thousand subs, glad to see you closing in on 200k. Great content as always.
Edit: The wife and I were driving through northern Italy late July 2015, and we drove through one of the worst hail storms I’ve ever seen, and I’m MS born and bred!
Sign me up for Northern Italy!🎉
@@windwatcher11The Dolomites, Brentas, the most beautiful place on God’s green Earth!
Thanks so much for watching since the beginning!
@@SwegleStudiosI’ve watched since you was on 190 subs
I think it must have been the EF4 tornado (Riviera del Brenta). A summary of it is on the Wikipedia European tornado page. 🙂
Here in East and South-East Estonia we have own little tornado alley. Often there are tornadoes or rotating storms rated F0-F2. In 12.07.2022 I saw with my own eyes wide wedge tornado from distance 1-5km and its moved from East to West towards my home town Elva. It named Paali tornado or Paali tromb rated high F1. You can see footage on Kairo Kiitsak channel from it.
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Thanks for this! From UK.
We had a huge tornado a few months ago on Jersey!
Is this not the one he mentioned in the video?
A few near me, all small but one was a T4
Hi! I am the olivia mentioned in the video and our houe got severly damaged in the tonado, we lost almost all our roof, almost every window smashed, all 4 vehicles wrote off and so so much more, our area where we got hit was recognised as high end t6, and do this day, months later, no damage has been cleared, my entire street ( 15 homes/families) are still displaced and their homes are in such a state they are considering knocking them all down, crazy!
Fascinating video, as always. One US tornado you might find interesting is the July 18, 1986 Fridley, Minnesota tornado A KARE 11 news helicopter got some incredible footage of it.
On October 23, 2022, the Bihucourt tornado (EF3) traveled more than 200 km, sweeping away the last length record in France. Incredible at that time of the year.
Lmfao at the Minecraft clip
When I was around 5 or 6, so somewhere around 2002-2003 my family was on vacation on the netherland's island called Texel. We drove there with our car because we live in West Germany close to the border to the NL. Driving on Texel I noticed that there was a Tornado building up, or rather ascending from the clouds. I told everyone in the car and noone believed me. 2 or 3 minutes later the tornado touched the ground. My dad stopped the car and we were all looking at it because none of us have ever seen a tornado with our own eyes. Ever since that day I've been obsessed with tornados, supercells, basically every weather phenomenon.
Witnessed out small F1 or F2 tornado here in Duisburg, Germany in 2004. It was not spectacular but for the fact that it came down in a city of 500000 inhabitants. Took away the roof of the main theatre (big old building), toppled a swimming crane in the harbour and zoomed northwards. No one was really injured and thankfully, none were killed, but it did a lots of damage.
I live in eastern Germany and the last, most likely tornadic, supercell ive seen was in 2017. Unfortunately i was only 10 at that time but it was pretty devastating. All the roads to my village were blocked
I’m happy to see the 1764 Woldegk tornado finally getting some attention.
I was hit by a tornado whilst on vacation in Hungary 2 years ago. Luckily I stayed in a brick house with a solid roof, but others weren’t that lucky, many roofs collapsed but our houses usually stay upright. I had never seen rain go horizontal instead of vertical in my life. All and all it was one hell of an experience, but hey I survived to live another day
Thank you for making this video! I’m from the UK and tornados fascinate me. We had a small one in my town recently (Manchester) and it shocked a lot of us. Looking forward to learning more! ❤
14:26 three F3 One F4
Honorable mention to Austria (had to plug it xD). We had a smaller one close to the vienna airport a few years ago. And in styria there are some recorded ones but they go further back
I’ve seen a few Tornadoes over here in the UK, usually they were multi-role RAF jets but I’ve seen a couple proper ones too.
The most memorable and the first time I’d ever seen a tornado in person and the only time I’ve watched it form, touch down, travel and then recede; was in North Wales.
I was just outside Dwygyfylchi in a caravan site and watched it form over the sea, touchdown in Llandudno, travel through the famous seaside town causing a little damage before it hit the Great Orme and receded.
Luckily nobody was hurt or worse as far as I’m aware but ever since then I’ve wanted to go storm chasing!
I live very close by the Dutch city of Utrecht, which has a (locally) very famous tornado story. You see, the major church of Utrecht (it is protestant so no cathedral), the Domkerk, is partially famous for being not connected to its church tower, the Dom. Well, while they were never truly connected they used to be much closer to each other, with only a city mandated gap of about 3 metres between church and tower. The current square sized gap was the result of a 1674 twister which struck the heart of the city. The council had an artist make sketches of the damage very shortly after the storm had happened, and what they pucture suggest either an F4 or F5 in power. The stormfront of which this tornado was a part also destroyed more church towers within Utrecht and surrounding villages.
As someone from the uk I have seen a tornado a small rope in the sky dropping for a minute then going back it was EPIC
The most interesting tornado to hit Finland happened at 62.782619, 29.760834 where what I believe was an F2 tornado crossed the lake Höytiäinen and went over the island Jouhtehinen in 2004. The forest that fell on the island during the tornado was left on the ground and is now a nature trail and also a place where they do research on how nature renews itself after a catastrophe.
The Wikipedia page on European tornadoes lists an F4 tornado in Finland in 1934 and an F3 in 1932, an F3 in 1998, an F3 in 2004. 😮
F4 is crazy rare in Northern Europe...not much is known of the 1934 tornado because it's so old. Maybe in some archives or newspapers one could find something but that would take lots of effort.@@geoffoakland
I live in that pink hotspot in the Netherlands. As a kid we've had a stable nearly blown over by a waterspout on the lake that went onto land. A few years later my dad had to get my brother off the same lake bc another waterspout had formed. And about a decade ago yet another waterspout -turned-landspout made its way down from the lake, went between our neighbour's house and ours, looped around our house, crossed the road, lifted the roof off a barn, stripped just one tree in a long row of trees off its leaves and then disappeared again. I'll never forget the sound of the biggest vaccuum cleaner I'd ever heard!
The tornado at 6:42 is the Andover, Kansas tornado, April 29, 2022 just as it was about to hit the public library/Town Hall.
That tornado struck fear into me, after years of waiting to see one in the flesh. I saw it forming off in the distance before the NWS issued a warning, sounding the sirens. I couldn’t go outside to watch as I didn’t know if was going to hit my home, I had to make a decision quick to get shelter. Thankfully its course was not in my direct path, but was off by 100 yards. We sustained no damage but a subdivision 1 mile away was hit.
In North Norfolk England ( Methwold and Methwold Hythe and more) there is a tornado outbreak that happens every 50 years i think and when my dad was in secondary school there was that outbreak in his town/village.
Heres another one just after christmas 2023 there was a EF3 tornado that hit Greater Manchester
2015 I was able to experience two events at the same time from the roof of a beach hotel near Venice, Italy. It was unforgettable. It had just turned dark and on one hand, I could see a clear sky with a huge blood moon towards the mainland, and on the other side, towards the sea, I was able to spot a waterspout through very active lightning in the darkness of the storm. The next morning, i heard rumors that it had also made landfall. I truly witnessed both, beauty and horror.
I can't even express how much I love and appreciate your videos
Here early but still excited! I love tornados and it just excites me whenever you upload I'm so glad I found your channel
Yeah it's interesting to see tornadoes occurring in other places on the planet I seen a video about China's Tornado Alley but we know that the most powerful and usually the deadliest tornadoes take place within the United States and Bangladesh.
Funny how most the tornados in the 1981 outbreak were in the midlands in England, yet the strongest spawned literally on the tip of an island off of Wales, one country away 😂
Appreciate all the footage and maps you show during this instead of showing tornado b-roll and still stock images the entire time. You rock! 🔥 👍
Just found out I lived in a tornado invested Area in West Germany, and did not know a thing for 7+ years! There were tornados happening so close and no one knew!
I live in the Northern Italian tornado corridor and I can confirm that we have not only tornadoes, but also crazy hailstorm and downburst. Near where I live almost every year we can see a tornado and many hailstorm. Many in fact say that this is the most storm-active area in Europe. In july 2023, south of Pordenone, a lady found the largest hailstone in Europe that was about 19cm or 7.5inc in diameter.
Btw love your videos, keep this work up.
When we have a tornado in the UK, we refer to it as "a cheeky tornandos"
Which makes me think of the tornado going in, not getting chicken and ruining the place. Which given some of Nandos customers, isn't entirely far off brand
Your videos literally help me get through washing dishes on a late monday night, thanks
This was such an interesting video! And very well-made, too. I'm glad it showed up in my recommended videos.
I live in the Netherlands and have always been fascinated by tornadoes, but actually learned some new things today. Also, many thanks for converting to the metric system, too.
Your videos are entertaining man! keep it up🔥
Love your vids man..big ups from the tornado capital of the world, England (technically).
Seriously these videos are so Well laid out and explained amazingly. I love this channel so much! Keep up the great work swegle!
To add to the NLM Cityhopper bit...
The weather information at the airport was around 20 minutes old. As per Admiral Cloudberg:
But in fact, the weather reports given out by controllers in Rotterdam were more than 20 minutes old. Before anyone received the information, a meteorologist in Amsterdam had to observe the state of the weather radar screen, sketch the storms onto a map, and then send copies of the map to airports around the Netherlands, a process which usually took 20 minutes. There was very litle if any Doppler coverage at this time in the netherlands, and even if there was, the meteorologists were not trained to detect mesocyclones at all, and furthermore there was no agency able to recieve tornado reports or pass them on to aircraft. The Fellowship had weather radar that much like Southern 242, tricked the crew into thinking a clear area was safe when it was beyond the upper limits of the WX radar to detect, much like the El Reno 2013 radar dropping out because of the intensity of the storms in both cases.
EDIT: When you say the pilots had little time to react, they were going at 425 km/h as per the flight data recorder, plus they would have been dealing with post takeoff checklists and navigating in severe weather which increased their workload as well, so fast plane, busy cockpit, and nowhere to go at all. They followed what the radar showed them.
Also, the 2005 Birmingham, UK tornado is best rememered but nobody talks about the 1981 UK tornado outbreak, at all.
Europe tornado in the thumbnail be looking cursed💀
Content is always great to watch, always informative! Love from West Virginia!❤
my german town was hit circa 2000
we took shelter in a restaurant whilst the roof tiles where raining down outside
and the thing was half a mile away, it flattened a forrest
Do Asia’s tornado alleys next please!
Besides Northern Europe Tornado alley, that is actually Central Europe on the map, this was a great video Mr Swegle! I think you nailed the number one hotspot for tornadoes over on this side of the pond. Thank you for sharing, always a treat!
lol my b my b.. thanks for watching!
Thanks for showing the Jersey tonado swegle, and for giving credit! brilliant video :)
I'm about to move to Tupelo, Mississippi, right in the heart of the South's tornado alley. Looking at homes, half of them list "storm shelters" as one of their amenities. Better buckle up!
that air plane opening story is quite terrifying
What a great Saturday surprise 😊
i remember seeing a tornado/waterspout when i lived in the uk during the pandemic near liverpool crazy thing to witness as a 15 year old that thought such things only happened in warmer areas of the continent ( for example france/poland/italy etc. )
Hell ya! Swegle! I live for these videos! Great work ❤
I'm from the UK and I'm in the English tornado alley and I've never seen a tornado, where should I go to see one?
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In July 2004 I attended an open air festival at the famous Loreley, right above the river Rhine. On the last day a strong storm hit the camping and festival site with extreme winds. Luckily I found shelter in a friend's caravan while some other friends were right out there, trying to hold on to their tent poles so that the tarpaulin and tents won't take off into their air. Through the window of the caravan I saw a huge bright spot in the dark clouds and dark shreds of clouds started to rotate at the fringes of the bright spot. I guess I witnessed a tornado in the making and the bright spot was its eye.The next day we learned that a tornado hit the city of Duisburg, up the Rhine valley, and caused significant damage. I'm not sure if it was the same tornado that was building up over Loreley, as it's 200 km to Duisburg from there, but sure as hell it was part of the same storm system.
I live in Austria in the City of Wiener Neustadt and we had here the strongest tornado ever recorded in Austria. It happened on July 10th 1916. It was a F4 and killed 34 People.
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you know after typing that and clicking post i regret it. however pls know that i look forward to your uploads and very much so enjoy your content!!!
Are you going to do a video on Twisters, the sequel to Twister, when it comes out this summer?
Great video! I really wanted you to talk about E Europe / The Balkans but still loved the video. Subscribed!
I live in germany near the border to luxemburg and france. The weather became pretty crazy in the last few years. We also have a lot of downbursts here, that can be really scary too.
you should do a video on Canada's tornado alleys, including "Tornado Valley" lmao
Holyhead is not in England.
oh it's in Wales, dang 😂
Love how I could tell where it was just by the pfp lol
True
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i remember seeing three waterspouts together off the coast of Frinton-On-Sea in Essex, England back in the late 2000s. Seeing that made me interested in tornados and storms, i caught the bug as it where
I live in england, and about 5 or 6 years ago a tornado hit the campsite we were staying at. No one was hurt but ot flipped and broke a table as well as blowing most of our clothes into a different field. One of the most exciting experiences of my life.
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I'm european and my dream as a kid was to see a tornado but one day a tornado touched down near my town that i could see trough my window but that day i was away in Kaunas SO I MISSED IT I gues sucks too suck.
As an American, be glad you've never seen one lol I can tell you that being hit by a tornado is the horrifying, helpless feeling you can possibly imagine.
@@charlesbrown4483 yeah that would be bad and i'm sorry if you had to go trough that but i mean to see a tornado from a safe distance plus Lithuania where im from tornadoes are very weak like ef0 or even just a funnel i the sky.
I actually had a tornado go over my house in the netherlands, and one that went a few kilometres behind my house. I would also recommend looking into the borculo (Netherlands) tornado from 1925, it was said to be a F5
I enjoy watching your channel and really enjoy this episode 👍🏻