Tornado yesterday in Portugal.

[Pedro Fernández]

Let my share with you the link to the new in our website, Cazatormentas.Net:

http://www.cazatormentas.net/index.php/ ... l-hoy.html

The tornado took place in a city called Santarém, in Portugal, yesterday at 7.30 UTC. It is possible it was born in a supercell, due to the storm structure showed by one of the portuguesse radars.

[HURAKAN]

Pedro, ¿que tan comunes son los tornadoes en la península Ibérica?

Pedro, how common are tornadoes in the Iberian Peninsula?

[Pedro Fernández]

I would like to show you/all a climatology of tornadoes in the Iberian Peninsula (PDF in Spanish) made by Miquel Gayà, one of the most experts on severe storms in Spain:

http://webs.ono.com/reclim/reclim05b.pdf

Tornadoes are frequent in my country, although severe tornadoes F4 o higher are not present... The highest could be a F3 tornado from a supercell which took place in Alcañiz (Teruel) in 2003.

[Pedro Fernández]

Possible tornado today morning in Sevilla (Spain, Iberian Peninsula again). There is no photograph about it, but this new is appearing in Internet news services, like Europa Press or Diario de Sevilla:

http://www.diariodesevilla.es/article/p ... chena.html

[Ed Mahmoud]

Pedro, ¿que tan comunes son los tornadoes en la península Ibérica?

Pedro, how common are tornadoes in the Iberian Peninsula?

Is that the tornado in question? Looks pretty impressive.

[HURAKAN]

yes!

[CrazyC83]

Were there any fatalities with those storms? They'd be the first (known) non-US deaths to add to the killer season so far...the way this is going, a rare European major outbreak may not be so far-fetched...

[Ed Mahmoud]

Were there any fatalities with those storms? They'd be the first (known) non-US deaths to add to the killer season so far...the way this is going, a rare European major outbreak may not be so far-fetched...

The current East Coast trough is pretty deep, as seen by unusually cold temps deep into the Southern US. I'm not big on the theory of teleconnections, but they seem to work, so I wouldn't be at all surprised if one or more much deeper than usual storm systems sweep Europe.


Any Europeans want to post 500 mb heights to confirm/deny my little theory, feel free.

[Pedro Fernández]

Were there any fatalities with those storms? They'd be the first (known) non-US deaths to add to the killer season so far...the way this is going, a rare European major outbreak may not be so far-fetched...

No, there weren't... For the Iberian Peninsula I don't know any case of death due to tornadoes. Land/Waterspouts are quite common in Spain; the most important region on spouts occurrence is Baleares and Cataluña. Nevertheless, there are some others, like Cadiz or Málaga. If we talk about torndoes which are born from supercell storms, I think any inland region of Spain and the eastern part are the most affected. I don't know any supercellular tornado stronger than F3 (Fujita's Scale).