Leo | DEwx

Tracking and chasing severe weather worldwide with focus on Germany. Also conducting on-site tornado damage surveys for Travelling Australia.

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

Introducing: the TorKUD Data Viewer. This outstanding work by @wxhendr is now publicly accessible and presents track data and survey results from @TorKUDde for tornadoes examined since 2015.

➡️ https://t.co/lkMSAqdGwt

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@PavanFederico00 @alluringstorms Fascinating how most of these tornadoes occured during the fall/winter months, and how many of those had appearences reminiscing of classic Dixie alley tornadoes. Despite different continents and latitudes, one can spot a lot of similarities.

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@NicimakiClips Picture 1, 3&4 from Neede; Picture 2 from Auen

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

99 years ago today, a devastating tornado outbreak impacted Germany, Belgium and NL. Among numerous strong to violent tornadoes, an IF5 struck Neede, NL. In Germany, two IF4s, ongoing at the same time, caused catastrophic damage in the towns of Lingen and Auen-Holthaus

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@Floriswolters

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

The June 1st, 1927 event was on a similar level as the infamous 1967 tornado outbreak. With the population density having grown much higher since, an outbreak like this today would be nothing short of catastrophic.

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@Qarinah616949 Yes that’s correct, what‘s your point here though?

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

In light of the recent debate about tornado impacts in Europe vs the US, I wanted to share some of the damage caused by the Hautmont, France tornado of 2008, which was rated IF4. Buildings CANNOT withstand upper-echelon tornadoes, no matter the continent.

[volvoks🇭🇷 @volvoks99]

We KNOW brick houses will stop this.
F4 tornado btw

[Sekai Chandra @Sekai_WX]

There is one tornado scar that beats them all.

It happened in Krasnoyarsk, Krai, USSR, sometime in the summer of 1965.

Moving ESE through a forest, the scar of this titanic tornado alone was more than 2 MILES WIDE in some places, averaging 1.5 miles wide.

57.25963, 93.841115

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@PlaysSaheb There are many tornadoes in Mongolia, but there’s nobody to document them

[hendrik @wxhendr]

Neede 🇳🇱 IF4,
South Moravia 🇨🇿 IF4
Hautmont 🇫🇷 IF4,
Sieroniowice 🇵🇱 IF3

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@Banished_Elk …?

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@LukasRentz @MWJS82 One day, people will be very surprised, and unfortunately not in good way

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@Qarinah616949 Not sure which European country you’re from, but neither in France, nor Germany, where I‘m from, brick- and concrete walls are used as decoration most of the time. What’s your house made of? Antimatter?

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@LukasRentz It’s really perplexing considering just years ago, most people thought tornadoes weren’t even a thing in Europe, and now we‘ve jumped to people thinking you can just compare strength of European and US tornadoes? Obviously, US has a much higher frequency of violent tornadoes.

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@Hayden2002WX @KreisRhein Definitely think this will be mostly severe wind. Widespread lift in the exit region of a small jet feature + orientation of UL flow should favor rapid upscale growth into MCS

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@Sausius_wx @SirFlatpipe But the point is, had those houses taken a direct hit from the violent core, they would’ve looked a lot different. Pretty much no structure can survive the worlds strongest tornadoes.

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@Sausius_wx @SirFlatpipe It is true that typical European masonry homes will, on average, hold up better in the event of a tornado than US houses. In this instance (Czechia 2021), trees were shredded in a violent fashion, while homes just outside the core received comparatively little damage.

[Leo | DEwx @GerWeather]

@DewaDog As a german who‘s been to Canberra, the similarity is genuinely staggering

[Zak ⚡ @ThunderGalore]

They're very faint, but I captured red sprites for the first time last night! These were coming from large thunderstorms over Wales, approximately 150 miles away. The waxing gibbous moon to the west was almost certainly drowning them out a bit but I'm still super chuffed 😁

[hendrik @wxhendr]

1 year ago, on May 23, together with @GerWeather, I saw my first tornado ever, as well as the best supercell I have ever seen near Kit Carson, Colorado