A Question for all the European Folks

[kriadydragon]

Actually it's my mom's question. She's been curious as to whether or not tornadoes happen anywhere in Europe. I'm curious to know where else besides the US tornadoes happen. I know they occur in Australia but where else? Who else has to suffer tornado warnings, wall clouds, huddling in basements and leaky cellars and the terror of storm chasers screaming about how a tornado is heading right down the street you happen to live on? I hate tornado season :S

Comments

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this :D Very interesting.

We do seem to be getting a lot of tornadoes this year but the really odd thing is that they're occurring in areas where, normally, they aren't quite so prevalent. It's usually Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska that get the brunt - especially Oklahoma who usually end up suffering the F5s and even F6s. But, this year, not so much for us.

[poorfenny.livejournal.com]

You're not kidding! I'm in Southeastern US, and I'm used to hearing about tornadoes occurring near me. Occasionally a few will venture into my area, but I had never personally experienced one. Then out of the blue we had almost 200 in one day in April! The sirens were blaring for so long that I kind of got used to sound. It was unsettling, to say the least.

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm in St. Louis and Missouri has gotten hit by THREE significant tornadoes since New Year's Eve.

NYE: F3 - hit Sunset Hills, Fenton area - south St. Louis County
Good Friday: F4 - hit Northwest St. Louis County & city - Lambert Airport took a direct hit. NO FATALITIES
May 22, 2011: F5 - leveled Joplin, MO, (southwestern MO) death toll up to 155 people.

Europe usually doesn't get hit by tornadoes, since they don't have the same climatic conditions that we have over the Midwest.

One of the freakiest things I've ever seen video of was of a FIRE tornado in Canada.