List of European tornadoes and tornado outbreaks

Parent article: List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks

These are some notable tornadoes, tornado outbreaks, and tornado outbreak sequences that have occurred in Europe.

Pre-20th century

Event	Date	Area	Tornadoes	Casualties	Notes
Rosdalla, Ireland Tornado	April 30, 1054	Kilbeggan, Ireland	-	-	Earliest known European tornado[citation needed]
London Tornado of 1091, England Tornado	October 23, 1091	United Kingdom	-	-	Earliest known and perhaps strongest British tornado
Vyšehrad Tornado of 1119	July 30, 1119	Vyšehrad, Bohemia	-	-	Earliest known and perhaps strongest Czech tornado which destroyed palace of Czech duke at Vyšehrad now in Prague[citation needed]
Czech Tornado of 1144	May 14, 1144	Bohemia	2	-	Two tornadoes near military camp of duke Oto[citation needed]
Prague Tornado of 1255	April 8, 1255	Prague, Bohemia	-	-	Tornado at Prague Castle[citation needed]
Valletta, Malta Tornado	September 23, 1551 (or 1556)	Malta	-	≈600 fatalities	Perhaps deadliest European tornado
Neznašov, Czech Tornado	July 6, 1585	Bohemia	-	-	[citation needed]
Augsburg, Germany Tornado	July 2, 1587	Germany	-	-	[citation needed]
Roma, Italy Tornado	December 4, 1645	Italy	-	Many fatalities	probably F4[citation needed]
La Rochelle - Paris, France Tornadoes	September 1669	France	-	-	Longest track tornado family in Europe[citation needed]
Utrecht, Netherlands Tornado	August 1, 1674	Utrecht, Netherlands	-	-	Destroyed part of the Dom Tower of Utrecht[citation needed]
Roma, Italy Tornado	June 12, 1749	Italy	-	3 fatalities	Destroyed many houses in Rome and Ostia,probably F3 multivortex tornado[citation needed]
Padua, Italy Tornado	August 17, 1756	Veneto, Italy	-	-	A likely F3 tornado hit the city of Padua, heavy damaging masonry buildings, with leaded roofs throwns several kilometers away[citation needed]
Great Malvern Tornado	October 14, 1761	United Kingdom	-	-
Woldegk, Germany Tornado	June 29, 1764	Germany	-	-	probably F5[citation needed]
Hainichen, Germany Tornado	April 23, 1800	Germany	-	-	probably F5[citation needed]
Fernhill Heath - Hampshire, England Tornadoes	September 22, 1810	United Kingdom	-	-	Widest known and perhaps strongest British tornadoes[citation needed]
Southsea, England Tornado	December 14, 1810	United Kingdom	-	-	Perhaps strongest British tornado[citation needed]
Seine - Maritime, France Tornado	August 19, 1845	France	-	70-200 fatalities	Perhaps strongest European tornado[citation needed]
Sicily, Italy Tornadoes	December 1851	Sicily, Italy	2	≈500 fatalities	Among deadliest European tornadoes[citation needed]
Brno, Czech Tornado	October 13, 1870	Brno, Moravia	-	-	Detailed scientific description by Gregor Mendel[citation needed]
Vienna, Austria Tornado	June 29, 1873	Vienna, Austria	-	Many fatalities	[citation needed]
F4 Rhineland-Tornado	July 1, 1891	North-Rhineland, Germany	1	at least 1 fatality, many injured	Total destruction of Anrath, a small village[citation needed]

20th century

Event	Date	Area	Tornadoes	Casualties	Notes
Javaugues, France Tornado	June 3, 1902	France	-	1 fatality	Widest known European tornado[citation needed]
Moscow, Russia Tornado	June 29, 1904	Moscow, Russia	≥2	≥30 fatalities	[citation needed]
Barry - Chester, Wales- England Tornado	October 27, 1913	United Kingdom	-	Several fatalities	Perhaps deadliest British tornadic supercell[citation needed]
Wiener Neustadt, Austria Tornado	July 10, 1916	Wiener Neustadt, Austria	-	32 fatalities, 300+ injured	Deadliest and strongest known Austrian supercell tornado. (F3/T7)[citation needed]
Southern Netherlands Tornado Outbreak	April 26, 1924	Netherlands	≥3	-	[citation needed]
Borculo, Netherlands Tornado Outbreak	August 10, 1925	Netherlands	Many	3 fatalities	[citation needed]
Uetersen, Germany Tornado Outbreak	August 10, 1925	Uetersen	1	1 fatalities	Tornado (F3)[citation needed]
Lichtenvoorde - Neede - Tubbergen, Netherlands Tornado	June 1, 1927	Netherlands - Germany	-	10 fatalities	Possibly multiple tornadoes, T9-T10 damage near Neede[citation needed]
Montello, Italy Tornado	July 24, 1930	Veneto and Friuli, Italy	-	≥23 fatalities	Perhaps strongest European tornado struck tornadicly active area of Italy, supposed F5, gusts of about 500km/h, leveled masonry buildings.[citation needed]
Lublin Tornado	July 22, 1931	Poland	-	6 fatalites	Described as the F5 but it is uncertain value.[citation needed]
Nurmijärvi - Konginkangas	August 4, 1932	Finland	-	1 fatality	6 tornadoes (one F3) track 20 km)[citation needed]
Kiuruvesi	July 11, 1934	Finland	-	1 fatality	F4 tornado, strongest one in Finland[citation needed]
Loray, Doubs Tornado	June 9, 1935	Doubs, France	-	-	[citation needed]
Buckinghamshire - Cambridgeshire, England Tornadoes	May 21, 1950	United Kingdom	-	-	Longest known British tornado/tornado family[citation needed]
Veluwe, Gelderland - Haulerwijk, Friesland, Netherlands Tornadoes	August 23, 1950	Gelderland - Friesland, Netherlands	≥2	-	Strongest recorded tornado in Nederlands, T10 (F5) damage[citation needed] in 50 kilometre long path in Veluwe forest.[citation needed]
Castelo Branco, Portugal Tornado	November 6, 1954	Portugal	-	4 fatalities, 200 injuries	[citation needed]
Rawa Mazowiecka and Nowe Miasto Poland Tornado	May 15 - 16, 1958	Poland	2	3 fatalities, >100 injuries
Rzeszów, Poland Tornado	May 20	South-East Poland near Rzeszów and Tomaszow Lubelski	many	4 fatalities	[citation needed]
Parma, Italy Tornado	July 4, 1965	Italy	≥1	25 fatalities, 160 injuries	[citation needed]
Western Europe Tornado Outbreaks of 1967	June 24–25, 1967	France - Netherlands - Belgium	≥8	≥15 fatalities	Same storm system produced two destructive outbreaks with fatalities in three countries[citation needed]
German Black Forest Tornado	July 10, 1968	Germany	-	3 fatalities	[citation needed]
Nicosia, Cyprus Tornadoes	December 22, 1969	Cyprus	Several	4 fatalities	Waterspouts (probably tornadic) came ashore[citation needed]
Venice, Italy Tornado Outbreak	September 11, 1970	Veneto, Italy	Several	47 fatalities	The tornado outbreak originated near Padua, passed through it and ended in Venice bringing death and havoc[citation needed]
Ameland Island, Netherlands Tornado	August 11, 1972	Friesland, Netherlands	-	7 fatalities, 90 injuries	[citation needed]
Moerdijk, Netherlands Tornado	October 6, 1981	North Brabant, Netherlands	-	17 fatalities	NLM CityHopper Flight 431 encountered tornado shortly after takeoff and crashed
Gwynedd - Humberside - Essex Tornado Outbreak, Wales and England Tornadoes	November 23, 1981	United Kingdom	105	0 fatalities	Largest known European outbreak though predominately weak tornadoes
1984 Yaroslavl tornado (1984 Ivanovo-Yaroslavl, Russia, Tornado Outbreak)	June 9, 1984	Western Russia	22	>400 fatalities, 213 injured	At least one F5, one F4, and one F3 were in the outbreak that damaged 36 cities and villages, including Tver and Kostroma, in a wide area north of Moscow.
Shel'vov	July 20, 1987	Ukraine	1	-	F4 tornado that destroyed the town of Shel'vov.[citation needed]
Ameland Island, Netherlands Tornado	August 17, 1992	Friesland, Netherlands	-	1 fatality	[citation needed]
Sigüenza, Spain Tornado	May 24, 1993	Sigüenza, Spain	-	-	F2 damage in a path across the town[citation needed]
Spijkenisse, South-Holland	June 7, 1997	Netherlands	-		F1 Damage on houses, and trees ripped out of the ground[citation needed]
Mikkeli, Rantakylä	June 12, 1998	Finland	-		F3 (track 10 km) destroyed some airport facilities[citation needed]
San Leonardo de Yagüe, Spain Tornado	June 1, 1999	Spain	-	-	F3 damage and thousands of trees uprooted in a forest near Soria, Spain[citation needed]

21st century

Event	Date	Area	Tornadoes	Casualties	Notes
Kontiolahti, Viinijärvi Tornadoes	August 20, 2004	Finland	-	-	F2 (track 10 km) At least 2 tornadoes
Garderen Tornado	July 27, 2005	Garderen, Netherlands	1	-	T4 tornado damaging mainly woods, also some damage to property.[citation needed]
Birmingham, UK Tornado	July 28, 2005	Birmingham, United Kingdom	-	30 injuries, 3 of which were serious	T4 tornado, briefly became a T5 (sustained F2 tornado on the Fujita scale)
Hamburg, Germany Tornado Outbreak	March 27, 2006	Germany	8	2 fatalities
Central Europe Tornado Outbreak	May 20, 2006	Germany	≥12	Some injuries	[citation needed]
Noordwijkerhout Tornado	May 21, 2006	Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands	1	-	T3-T4 tornado causing damage to crops and buildings[citation needed]
August 2006 UK Tornado Outbreaks	August 16–18, 2006	United Kingdom	-	8 injuries	At least 4 tornadoes[citation needed]
August 2006 Mainland Europe Outbreak	August 21, 2006	Western Europe	-	38 injuries	At least 7 confirmed tornadoes, a further 4 unconfirmed others[citation needed]
London Tornado of 2006	December 7, 2006	London, United Kingdom	1	6 injuries
Central England Tornado Outbreak	September 23, 2007	Central England	-	-	At least 4 tornadoes reported in Warwickshire, Northamptonshire and West Midlands. [1]
2008 Hautmont, France tornado	August 3, 2008	Hautmont, France	-	4 fatalities, 13 injuries	F4 damaged several villages
Northern Netherlands Tornado Outbreak	August 3, 2008	Friesland, Groningen, Netherlands	2 confirmed, 4 reported	-	T3-T4 tornadoes caused damage to property[citation needed]
2008 Poland Tornado Outbreak	August 15–16, 2008	Mykanów, Poland	8 confirmed, 11 reported	3 fatalities	F3 - F4 tornadoes in Opolskie, Silesian, and Łódzkie Voivodeships
Lichtenvoorde - Vragender - Winterswijk, Netherlands	July 12, 2010	Netherlands	1	6 injuries	Tornado destroyed church tower in Vragender and Zwarte Cross Festival area in Lichtenvoorde. damage T5-T7, uncertainty about nature of winds, some sources cite a strong derecho as cause of damage.[citation needed]
Lumda - Schluechtern, Germany	August 28, 2010	Germany	2 confirmed, 3 reported	-	F2 tornado in Lumda & F1 tornado in Schluehtern, caused a damage of about €500 Million[citation needed]
Northern Sweden Tornado Outbreak	June 4, 2011	Northern Sweden	-	At least 3 injuries	Several tornadoes reported in the provinces of Ångermanland, Västerbotten, and Norrbotten in northern Sweden. [2][3]
Sachsen - Anhalt, Germany	September 11, 2011	Germany	1 F3 tornado confirmed.	-	[citation needed]
England and Wales tornadoes	November 29, 2011	England and Wales	1 F0, 2 F1 tornadoes	1 injured	One tornado in Greater Manchester, England and another in Anglesey, Wales. Later that day, a F1 tornado struck north of Breighton.[citation needed]

See also

• List of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
  • List of Asian tornadoes and tornado outbreaks
• Tornado records
• Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO)

References

• Grazulis, Thomas P. (1993). Significant Tornadoes 1680-1991, A Chronology and Analysis of Events. St. Johnsbury, VT: The Tornado Project of Environmental Films. ISBN 1-879362-03-1
• --- (2001). The Tornado: Nature's Ultimate Windstorm. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3258-2

External links

• Europe listing by The Tornado Project
• European Tornado Extremes (TORRO)
• European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL)
  • European Severe Weather Database (ESWD)
• European Storm Forecast Experiment (ESTOFEX)
• Skywarn Europe
• Center of Competence for Severe Local Storms in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (TorDACH)
• Tornadoes at the Czech Republic and Slovakia (Czech version) (Czech Hydrometeorological Institute)
• Tornadoes in Italy *in Italian
• Tornadoliste Deutschland *in German
• Austrian tornadoes *in German
• German Weather Chronicle
• Tornadoes of Europe
• European Climatology on Severe Storms (University of the Balearic Islands)