Hello everyone ! I am French StormChaser !

[remy]

Hello my name is Rémy. I am 16 years old. I live in France in toulouse and i love sever weather, tornadoes and hurricanes. I trake storms in France near Toulouse in the south of France . I have a storm traker groupe in France named StormChaserAdventure : http://www.superstorm.forumactif.com and we studys French thunderstorms, tornadoes and sever weather.

Here, you can see somes of my pictures took in Toulouse or near Toulouse.

Beautiful Shelf Cloud



Here you can see a french Wall cloud near Blagnac



Mesocyclone at Blagnac



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[x-y-no]

Welcome to Storm2k, Rémy!

Great pictures!

[TexasStooge]

Welcome to S2k.

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Welcome.

Do you guys and girls have much severe weather over there? I've always heard that North America is by far the world leader in regards to most extreme weather, much of inland Europe by comparison is said to be quite mild.

[P.K.]

Not sure I'd agree with that, Bangladesh can have some very severe storms. Also many countries have higher tornado occurance rates than the USA from what I've managed to find out (The Netherlands is top of the list).

[Hybridstorm_November2001]

Still when you take into a account ALL EXTREMES North American, and especially the US, is number one. I'm not saying other regions are not close, just that it is the most severe in this part of the world when you take into account all types of different weather phenomenon, that is. Like over all if you would.

[remy]

hello ! so in France we have 180 tornadoes per years. We had 2 tornadoes F5 in France! There is a specialist who studied the tornadoes in France. This name is Jean dessens. And ci below this is a map of strong and violent tornadoes in France.

[P.K.]

Still when you take into a account ALL EXTREMES North American, and especially the US, is number one. I'm not saying other regions are not close, just that it is the most severe in this part of the world when you take into account all types of different weather phenomenon, that is. Like over all if you would.

I think it is more that you only hear about events in your local area. The media in Europe mainly report events in Europe and the media in North America mainly report events there etc.


I've heard of Dessens, yes some very strong tornadoes have been reported in France.

Across the continent, a number of tornadoes are believed to have reached T10 - although it is always difficult to rate violent tornadoes, especially those at the upper end of the category. Violent (T8-T11) tornadoes have occurred in many countries, although only a few nations have experienced a T10. However, two tornadoes are rated T10-11 with the upper category implying windspeeds close to the 500 km h-1 (311 mi h-1) mark. On August 19, 1845, a violent T10-11 tornado devastated Montville (Seine-et-Maritime) in France. Sources give conflicting information as this lunch-time tornado travelled 15 or 30 km, was 100 or 300 m wide and killed 70 & injured 130 or (less probable) killed 200 people. At a similar time of day on July 24, 1930, the Treviso-Udine area (Veneto / Friuli-Venezia Giulia) of Italy was devastated by a 80 km long T10-11 tornado, which claimed 22 or 23 lives.

http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/research/whirlextreme.php

[Yarrah]

Not sure I'd agree with that, Bangladesh can have some very severe storms. Also many countries have higher tornado occurance rates than the USA from what I've managed to find out (The Netherlands is top of the list).

We are? I've always learned tornado's can't form over here. Only their smaller cousins, who look like waterspouts, form here quite often. Though they hardly do any damage at all.

PS: Welcome Rémy, hope you have a great time here.

[P.K.]

Certainly not, you can have some very damaging tornadoes. The last estimate I've seen was 35 tornadoes over land per year and 100 over water per year for there. http://www.tordach.org/pdf/ecss02s.pdf Now this makes the Netherlands 6.5 times more active than the UK in terms of tornadoes per land area, and ten times more active than the USA.

I've only got a very limited database of tornadoes there but there are reports of intensities up to T9 on a tornado in 1925 giving speeds of 108-120m/s, which killed three people. There was also a T8 in 1950, and a tornado over water which then made landfall in 1981 went on to kill 17 sadly.

[Yarrah]

I looked it up a bit and you're absolutely right. It's a bit confusing, because the Dutch use a number of different words to describe different sorts of tornado. For example, we use the word tornado to describe the very destructive American version; they hardly ever form here. Ony four of those tornado's have been reported in our history: the one in 1925, one in 1927 which killed 10 people, one in 1950 and one in 1967. The one in 1981 was actually not a real tornado, but one of their smaller versions (we call them 'windhoos', but windhoos is also a name for a hurricane, so confusing). It tore of a plane's wing which then crashed and killed 17 people.

[P.K.]

A tornado is a tornado no matter how it forms so the one in 1981 was. Any tornado is dangerous and can do damage.