Tornado outbreak in Germany May 20th

[TheEuropean]

Hi,

on May 20th a strong squall line crossed wide areas in Germany from west to east with some super cells in front of the line. Damage from this squall line runs up to several millions of dollars, there was one death and many injuries. Within this squall line and the cell in front of it we are investigating nearly 40 cases with possible tornadoes. Until today at least 9 tornadoes are confirmed, which makes this the second tornado outbreak in Germany this year. It is not known if the case with one death was a tornado or a downburst.

More about tornadoes in Germany (but in german):

http://www.tornadoliste.de

Regards, TheEuropean

[P.K.]

You must be well ahead of us so far this year in terms of numbers of tornadoes. They tend to start to increase around June though as we've just been through the least tornadic period of the year.

[TheEuropean]

Hi P.K.,

You must be well ahead of us so far this year in terms of numbers of tornadoes. They tend to start to increase around June though as we've just been through the least tornadic period of the year.

That's right. So far we have at least 18 confirmed tornadoes in Germany this year. Here are the numbers of previous years:

2003: 11 confirmed till June 14th
2004: 13 confirmed
2005: 9 confirmed

May be 5 to 10 more cases for this year till today will confirmed, the number will increase with more analysis completed.

Regards, Thomas