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A powerful high-end F3 tornado struck Holstebro in Denmark, causing devastating damage. More than 100 houses were badly damaged or destroyed, making this event the most devastating tornado in Denmark's history, and the third strongest tornado documented in Denmark. Many injuries were reported, but the number is not exactly known.
According to the European Severe Storms Laboratory, there have been 27 confirmed tornadoes in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin in 2024, resulting in 0 fatalities and 1 injury. Note that non-damaging waterspouts are included in this number but not elsewhere and that ESWD data includes Europe as well as surrounding regions. [1]
This page documents all tornadoes confirmed by the European Severe Storms Laboratory or various governments or universities across Europe during 2024.Unlike the United States, the original Fujita Scale and the TORRO scale are used to rank tornadoes across the continent.
Prior to 1950 in the United States, only significant tornadoes are listed for the number of tornadoes in outbreaks. Due to increasing detection, particularly in the U.S., numbers of counted tornadoes have increased markedly in recent decades although the number of actual tornadoes and counted significant tornadoes has not. In older events, the ...
List of European tornadoes and tornado outbreaks; List of European tornadoes in 2010; List of European tornadoes in 2011; List of European tornadoes in 2012; List of European tornadoes in 2013; List of European tornadoes in 2014; List of European tornadoes in 2022
The tornado reportedly killed three people, and passed through the villages of Welbourn, Wellingore, Navenby and Boothby Graffoe in Lincolnshire, and leveled large portions of each village. It is the strongest tornado on record in the British Isles. [150] This tornado is not documented by the European Severe Storms Laboratory. Jun 17: 1946 ...
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [4] [11] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
Strong mesocyclones show up as adjacent areas of yellow and blue (on other radars, bright red and bright green), and usually indicate an imminent or occurring tornado. The history of tornado research spans back centuries, with the earliest documented tornado occurring in 200 and academic studies on them starting in the 18th century. This is a ...