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July 12, 2015

Rare Tornado In Italy

This is alleged to be an F4 tornado, but if you check out the descriptions on the Fujita Scale, this looks more like an F2 at the point where our camera vehicle stopped, so they are well away from the funnel cloud. Two things are mildly interesting, IMO: (1) the people in the car react differently than North American stormchasers, and (2) there are either no cows in Italy or there are none light enough and loose enough to take flight.

News story. Translation: "Around 17.30 a supercell thunderstorm prefrontal generated a strong tornado lasted nearly 10 minutes that hit a strip of land between the towns of Mira, Dolo and Pianiga in the province of Venice for an indicative length of 7 km and a width of about half a kilometer. There have been serious damage to houses, cars and trees as reflected in the attached photos, as well as a victim, seventy injured and hundreds displaced."

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