Europe's Tornado Alleys

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Contents:
0:00 Intro - NLM CityHopper Flight 431
1:36 The English Tornado Alley
2:42 1954 London Tornado
3:18 1981 Great Britain Tornado Outbreak
3:50 2005 Birmingham Tornado Hotspot
5:00 1091 London Tornado
5:30 Suffolk, Barking, Jersey Tornado
6:42 Ground News
8:08 The 1764 Woldegk Germany Tornado
10:50 North Europe Tornado Alley
11:02 2015 Butzow Tornado
11:24 Recent Tornadoes in Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany
12:25 France Tornadoes - 1967 Palluel F5 Tornado
3:14 Netherlands Tornado Alley
14:18 Polish Tornado Alley and 2021 S Moravia Tornado
14:15 Italy Tornado Alleys
15:38 2015 Italy Tornado
16:08 1970 Italy Ferry Disaster
16:40 1930 Montello F5 Tornado
17:20 Other Parts of Europe

Crazy Europe Tornado Footage Used in Vid:

Tornado in Poland - StephaneJF

Multi-vortex 2019 Luxembourg Tornado - UwBe International

January 2024 Belgium Tornado - Disaster Compilations

Strong Tornado in NRW Germany May 2022 - Marco Kaschuba

2015 Italy Tornado Powerflash - On Demand News

Tornado in Zierikzee, Netherlands June 27, 2022 - Marco Kaschuba

UK tornado Intercept:

#tornado #europe #history

[SwegleStudios]

Tornado season is upon us! Got lots of vids in the pipeline so be sure to subscribe. Thanks so much for watching!

[BasilLikesScripting]

THE FUCKING MINECRAFT FOOTAGE I CANNOT

[theovilleminot]

Hello there.

As a French guy who live near Belgium I'm a little bit surprised that you didn't mention the Bihucourt Tornado of October 2022.
It was the only EF3 of an outbreak, this long track tornado is the longest confirmed tornado path in Europe, (206 km or 128 miles) had a maximum width of 1km, windspeed between 220 and 270 km/h, and didn't kill anyone.

This tornado started at the east of Rouen (France) hit 104 different town and finished in Le Hainaut (Belgium).

[FPVsean]

I have a miniature 'tornado alley' right in my back garden here in Ireland! Back in the early 2000's an F1 formed in my area, went directly behind the house and into the neighboring area and ripped off roof tiles, flipped a couple of vehicles and did very minor damage, but it was a confirmed tornado all the same. Since then many wind events have whirled through the area.

Edit I checked that website you're using and the data is there for it! Very cool

[fionaparkinson]

I was driving home from work in Birmingham (UK for all you Americans). I’m stuck in traffic that isn’t going anywhere. Apparently the traffic control centre had been struck by lightning and all of the traffic lights were on red. I looked up at the skyline which was pretty much grey and lightning. There seemed to be a funny funnel shape and you just laugh and go “yea right! We don’t have tornadoes over here”. Turns out we do and it was. Thankfully it was basically a bin mover rather than a house mover. It caused thousands of pounds worth of improvements to the area.

[jenshanssen]

"If you want to see a tornado in europe move to" * starts zooming in to my city
few days after this video and my area is in a level 2 risk for tornadoes and wind according to estofex (22/02)

[mathm]

Hey, greetings from Paderborn. I was actually here when the Tornado hit. Very spooky and chaotic day but what stuck with me is how people came together to help each other

[Dillgurke]

To put into perpective how insane the Woldegk tornado must have been, the report by Genzmer includes observations such as:

- Removal of crops, grass and the top 10cm of soil
- Stumps of previously cut oak trees were ripped out of the ground and carried away
- A boulder of which about 'half the size of a man' stuck out of the ground was moved
- tree branches were found that were covered in ice (meaning they must have been lifted above freezing level for a substantial amount of time)

[charlotteice]

I live in one of the towns in western Germany where that tornado came through on May 20th, 2022. The footage shown at 12:05 was taken in my town. I was at work and thus in the area it went through when it happened. It was raining heavily and then I heard a load noise, I thought it was diffuse crowd cheering from the guy watching football a room over. I looked outside and the trees that have always provided shade were toppled, just folded over. Roof parts from the neighboring school went through the air, and one tile went through a window and bounced around in the top of the stairwell where it hit. Dust was blown back into the building's ventilation system, which triggered the fire alarm system, causing the smoke hatches to open which were subsequently ripped open far past where they were meant to go. As we were fixing things up temporarily, the fire alarm was blaring constantly and chainsaws could be heard from all over. We were still lucky. In a village, the top was lifted right off a church's tower, and the roof was moved by a few inches. At one farm, a stable was completely destroyed. We were lucky it rained so much just before it happened. All we got was a storm warning, we all had no idea of how to act in a tornado and we didn't know there'd be one. In neighboring Paderborn, the people were not so lucky. They were just as clueless as we were and there was only light rain, so many people were outside while it happened.

[Samh-]

8:56 the minecraft clip made me laugh when you mentioned cobblestone 😂

[SpitfireFortyFour]

There's something very amusing about the "I better do metric since we're talking about europe" message coming up during the segement on England the one country in Europe that uses miles!

Great video as always, interesting to hear about the Tornado hotspots in areas outside of the states!

[cuddlepaws]

My husband and myself lived in a high rise 19-floor (20-floor in the US) tower block in Wolverhampton in the West Midlands, UK. From where we lived, we could see Dudley and Birmingham in a straight line. I can't recall the exact year, but it was the first time we ever heard of tornados in the Midlands, when two tornados hit Seven Oaks in Birmingham and Dudley. I recall seeing it on the news. It took roofs off houses, demolished walls, trees and cars. Both were fairly short-lived, but obviously strong enough to create mayhem.

I recall standing in the kitchen with my husband which faced Dudley and Birmingham, on the same day as we heard about it and looking across towards Dudley, which sits between Wolverhampton and Birmingham, and we saw what looked suspiciously like a funnel cloud forming. I don't think it came to anything, though.

Later that night it was quite blustery in Wolverhampton, and we were sitting watching TV when we heard the strangest sound against the side of the building. Our lounge formed the corner of the block and the wall where our settee was, along with one side of the kitchen, faced Birmingham. Anyway, there was, a kind of rumbling rotational sound akin to hearing a washing machine on spin cycle. We looked at each other. Was it what we thought it was? It didn't last very long, but it was enough to give us the bug eyes. Never heard anything like it before or since (We've lived in Bristol since 2000). We got up to look, but it was dark, so we saw nothing. Always wondered about that. It was very distinctive.

[SuzDn]

Tornadoes really are quite common in Birmingham (UK) - I witnessed a small one, and my friends did not believe me, but a few years later the 2005 nado tore all of their roofs in the same area. Local construction workers thought all their christmases had come at once! Furthermore, a respectably sized tornado was spotted in Edinburgh Scotland recently. The footage was impressive.

[sienna-monthero]

wake up babe, new swegle studios video just dropped!!!

[eebydeebyz]

Hell, I didn’t know we had so many tornadoes- a British person

[gillestijmes]

Thanks for your comprehensive video on European tornadoes! As a storm chaser from the Netherlands, people often find our hobby confusing, especially since tornadoes are considered rare even for Europeans and are often thought to be limited to the USA. Sadly, the terrain here makes it a bit difficult to chase storms. One of the most active regions recently in terms of weather warnings was central Germany, but we tend to avoid it because the tree coverage makes it impossible to see approaching storms, as well as the crowded highways in this part of Germany.

Regarding the June 1967 outbreak you mentioned around the 13:00 mark, I had the opportunity to meet a victim of the F3 tornado in Tricht, who shared the entire story with me. What is most bone-chilling to me is the fact that people in Europe do not receive the same type of warnings as people in America, and the culture is also not as prepared to act upon emergencies like this. She mentioned that she had heard about tornadoes in northern France earlier that day, and the weather report had mentioned these storms coming to the Netherlands, but not a single person would dare to predict that it would strike her town and kill seven of her neighbors. As it approached, she originally only saw hay and straw and froze when she realized what was happening. Her husband at the time remained more level-headed and told her to get the baby out of the crib upstairs and to lay down downstairs. His advice was crucial, as the crib upstairs was pierced through with wooden debris from the tornado. There was no alarm or any other warning, except for a weatherman which warned generically for "bad weather."

Her house was on the corner of a housing block. Hers was left standing with only windows blown out, but the entire row of houses that connected to her backyard was knocked over, which made it possible for her to suddenly see the butchers at the end of the street from her window. She saw one of the neighbors hanging in a tree and lost people she had talked to just hours prior.

Other interesting tornadoes in the Netherlands are the Borculo and Neede tornadoes, which struck in the same area in 1925 and 1927, respectively, and are among the strongest recorded in Dutch history. The one that has left the most visual scar up to this day is the one that struck the Dom Church in Utrecht in 1674, leveling the entire middle portion of the section, which left the church tower as an independently standing structure. The debris ended up being a meeting spot for gay men (and later for their executions), and the gay memorial monument that is visible on the Dom Square nowadays is directly linked to this historical tornado. I do love the tornadoes you mentioned in your video though, and I think it really shows how well you have done your research!

Anyway, I am worried about when the next EF-4/EF-5 will strike in Europe because, as I mentioned, people do not know when to expect it or what to do in case it happens. It is a very realistic natural disaster to occur within Europe, but also probably the most overlooked. I am glad to have your video now to draw attention to it and to show people who are surprised by my interest and concerns that it is somewhat legitimate.

[WaffleBlako]

Ancient accounts of tornados are my favourite kind of source when looking back at European storm history. Something about the huge scale of such a thing and the completely unexplainable, unfathomable nature of a tornado to an 18th-century Englishman. One such account from the 'Great Malvern Tornado of 1761' really adds a layer of dramaticism and paints the tornado as a truly bewildering and awesome sight to behold. The language is so quaint, its actually kind of funny:

'At a quarter past four in the afternoon, a most astonishing phaenomen was seen at Great Malvern, in Worcestershire, and parts adjacent. It had the appearance of a volcano, and was attended with a noise as if 100 forges had been at work at once; it filled the air with a nausseous sulpherous smell; it rose from the mountains in the form of a prodigious thick smoak, and proceeded to the valleys, where it rose and fell several times; and at length it subsided in a turnep-field, where the leaves of the turneps, leaves of the trees, dirt, sticks, &c. filled the air and flew higher than the highest hills. It was preceded with the most dreadful storm of thunder and lightning ever heard in the memory of man, and spread a universal consternation, wherever it was seen or heard.'

'ever heard in the memory of man.' LOL when did we stop using such great and over-the-top sentences?

[ITler]

Interesting video.
There is another interesting fact about the history of tornadoes in Europe:
Until WWII German scientists have been the world leading scientists in the feeld of tornado research. They wrote the first books about it.
Tornado research in Germany was stopped completely with WWII until the 90s. That's why many Germans think we didn't have tornadoes in the past or just a few.

Greetings from the German Tornado Alley 🙂

[khfan]

It's so nice to see a video talking about the tornadoes in europe. Living in North East Germany, it's also great to see someone talk about the Bützow and Woldeck Tornadoes. At least in most videos I have seen, they are often forgotten when it comes to tornadoes in Germany.

I remember hearing about the Bützow Tornado on my way to school. It was actually the first time I became aware of tornadoes happening in my area. I also know someone who lived there at the time. I called him and asked if everything was okay. He didn't even know the tornado happened because he lived in the part of the town that thankfully wasn't affected

[Bricky_Gamer]

I love the minecraft clip with the weather2 mod when you mention ''cobble stone'' xd 8:56