Tornado slams german village on October 1st-UPDATE

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Tornado slams german village on October 1st-UPDATE

#1 Postby Bunkertor » Mon Oct 02, 2006 1:52 pm

Watch this. 130 pictures

http://www.all-wetter.de/thread.php?threadid=13946

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#2 Postby Yarrah » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:03 pm

Thanks for the pictures, damage seems pretty bad. It seems western Europe has had quite a lot of tornadoes in the last two days (a few of them have been sighted here too, but they were mainly waterspouts). I just saw some awesome footage of a tornado in Belgium on the news, but I can't find the footage on the internet.
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#3 Postby P.K. » Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:13 pm

We have had at least one in the UK in the last couple of days as well. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/southern_counties/5396508.stm
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#4 Postby HenkL » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:03 pm

Pictures of the tornado in Belgium: here
Pictures of the damage: here
Radar zoom (B=Brussel, AN=Antwerpen): here
TV news with movie by British tourist: here

No injuries.
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#5 Postby Extremeweatherguy » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:20 pm

seems like it was a pretty wide tornado. Also, based on the damage, it looks like it was likely an F-1 or F-2 (USA fujita scale). Would have been scary to be in those houses! :eek:
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#6 Postby CrazyC83 » Mon Oct 02, 2006 10:18 pm

Any injuries or fatalities?
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#7 Postby Bunkertor » Mon Oct 02, 2006 11:14 pm

CrazyC83 wrote:Any injuries or fatalities?


Nope. Injuries maybe.Damage is some million Euro. Unfortunately houses were new. But luckily many east-germans owe insurances that cover so called elementar-damage, such as flash flood, storm, hail and so on...

At this point no Fujita-Rate has been given but some brick-walls were torn down so that F2 is likely. Pictures not avaiable because the tornado struck the village at 1 am
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Re: Tornado slams german village on October 1st

#8 Postby Cyclenall » Tue Oct 03, 2006 10:33 pm

Bunkertor wrote:Watch this. 130 pictures

http://www.all-wetter.de/thread.php?threadid=13946

regards

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If your on dial-up and you open that link, watch out!!! I'm on high-speed Internet and it took 4 minutes to load that page! My computer is quite slow though so it's a mix i guess.

Yarrah wrote:I just saw some awesome footage of a tornado in Belgium on the news, but I can't find the footage on the internet.

I saw that footage as well. It was awesome. There were close-up shots of the twister with debris flying everywhere. I saw it on the weather network in Canada.
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#9 Postby Yarrah » Wed Oct 04, 2006 3:27 am

Funny thing is that the low associated with the front that caused this extreme weather, was ex-Helene. It seems this atlantic hurricane season is hurting Europe (and its islands in the atlantic) more then the US.
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#10 Postby P.K. » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:32 am

Bunkertor wrote:At this point no Fujita-Rate has been given but some brick-walls were torn down so that F2 is likely. Pictures not avaiable because the tornado struck the village at 1 am


It says F2 on the TORDACH page run by The European.
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#11 Postby TheEuropean » Wed Oct 04, 2006 4:39 pm

P.K. wrote:
Bunkertor wrote:At this point no Fujita-Rate has been given but some brick-walls were torn down so that F2 is likely. Pictures not avaiable because the tornado struck the village at 1 am


It says F2 on the TORDACH page run by The European.



Hi P.K.,

F2 is confirmed, may be F3 because some structural damage at a new house. Newest investigations show the cell spawned at least 3 tornadoes at a distance of nearly 100 miles.
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#12 Postby Bunkertor » Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:38 pm

Take an new look...

http://www.wetter-zentrale.com/cgi-bin/ ... ead=988600
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