Strong Tornado in southern Italy

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Strong Tornado in southern Italy

#1 Postby Crostorm » Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:18 pm

A rare November tornado moved through Taranto,in southern Italy, on Wednesday November 28th. A loop of 10.8 µm Meteosat-9 imagery (below) shows the development of an overshooting top in a thunderstorm that is moving over Taranto between 0900 and 0915 UTC (Note that the time indicated on the satellite image is the nominal time — the time that the satellite starts scanning. The actual scan time over southern Italy is approximately 10 minutes later than the nominal time). Such cloud-top features are frequently associated with severe weather. A faint suggestion of an enhanced-V/thermal couplet is apparent in the later imagery as the strong thunderstorm moves northward across the Salento peninsula and then into the Adriatic Sea.

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METOP-A infrared imagery (below) shows the thunderstorm complex about an hour before a tornadic storm moved inland from the Ionian Sea. The corresponding Meteosat-9 image is here. The higher spatial resolution of the polar orbiter METOP-A allows the discernment of much finer detail in the cloud-top features.

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Visible imagery from Meteosat-9, above, also shows the development of the overshooting top associated with the tornadic cell. A higher-resolution visible imager from METOP-B, below, showed the line of thunderstorms in which the tornadic cell, indicated by the yellow arrow, was embedded.

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http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/blog/archives/11900
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#2 Postby Crostorm » Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:45 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzb7CXokqFU[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KojGr2y9Ubw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKFuEwYcHuw[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmorhWA4B3s[/youtube]
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#3 Postby Bunkertor » Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:44 pm

Yes, it hit the biggest european steel plant. One worker has been killed :cry:
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#4 Postby Cyclenall » Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:30 am

This is like the 4th or 5th International tornado this fall to make the news, quite a number so far. What an amazing tornado for Italy!! :eek: It looks violent but probably F2-F4; the cone to almost wedge looks nasty.

I like the 2nd video in Crostorm's 2nd post, the beginning is funny. It sounds like a bunch of laughing manics from the asylum :lol: :lol: . Great footage that reminds me of some AL twisters from the end of April 2011. The 3rd video has been removed.
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