List of tornadoes

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Tornado near Cala Ratjada ( Mallorca )

The list of tornadoes describes tornado events in a selection sorted by different countries.

United States

date dead description
August 15, 1787 2 The Four-State Tornado Swarm , the first swarm of tornadoes recorded on New England weather records , killed two people, left numerous injuries and caused severe damage in the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
0May 7, 1840 at least 317 The Great Natchez Tornado destroyed large parts of the city of Natchez and many boats on the Mississippi . The casualty balance is at least 317 people, but could be significantly higher, as casualties among the slaves in the plantations in the affected region may not have been taken into account.
May 27, 1896 at least 255 The St. Louis – East St. Louis Tornado (F4) was one of the most devastating tornados in United States history and the most devastating weather event in St. Louis and East St. Louis .
March 18, 1925 695 The Tri-State Tornado (F5) claimed 695 lives in 3½ hours over a length of 352 km over the territory of three US states (Missouri, Illinois and Indiana). At around 95 km / h, it had an unusually high train speed.
03rd / 4th April 1974 315 In the Super Outbreak , a total of 148 tornadoes hit the southern and midwestern United States in 13 states, including 30 devastating cases (F4 / F5). They left 315 people dead and $ 600 million in property damage.
May 27, 1997 27 The Jarrell tornado killed 27 people in Jarrell, Texas.
0May 3, 1999 48 Over 70 tornadoes of the Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak moved across Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The Oklahoma City region was hit worst . Forty-eight people were killed, and with total property damage of $ 1.2 billion, this is the costliest natural disaster of its kind to date.
25-27 April 2011 320 More than 150 tornadoes in Alabama , Georgia , Mississippi and Tennessee claimed more than 320 lives in an extremely short span of hours . The center of the disaster was Tuscaloosa , where a 1.5 km wide tornado passed over the city. 228 people were killed in Alabama alone, the number of tornadoes and the damage caused exceeded the values ​​of the Super Outbreak of 1974, which was considered the worst event of its kind until then.
21-26 May 2011 162 A series of at least 241 confirmed tornadoes caused 162 deaths in 6 days and wreaked havoc in Arkansas , Kansas , Minnesota , Oklahoma, and especially Missouri . The Joplin tornado ( EF5 ) alone in Joplin , Missouri on May 21, claimed 158 lives.
02nd / 3rd March 2012 41 A series of 70 confirmed tornadoes claimed many lives in Kentucky , Indiana , Alabama and Oklahoma .
May 20, 2013 24 The Moore Tornado (EF5) in Moore , Oklahoma is considered to be one of the strongest cyclones in US history. Its cloud of debris was up to six kilometers wide and therefore significantly wider than the vortex itself (2.1 km). It remained in contact with the ground for 27 kilometers, destroyed 12,000 houses and also brought two schools to collapse. It was the fourth severe tornado in Moore in fourteen years and reached wind speeds of 340 km / h. Several hundred people were injured.
May 31, 2013 8th The El Reno tornado (EF3) near El Reno and Oklahoma City , Oklahoma, is the largest tornado ever measured to date, with a maximum diameter of 4.2 km at times. The tornado killed at least 8 people and injured at least 151. A peculiarity of the tornado was that it was a multivortex tornado (i.e. consisting of several vertebrae that revolve around a common center).
27.-29. April 2014 35 A series of tornadoes hit Alabama , Kentucky and Mississippi .
June 16, 2014 2 Tornado in pilgrims , pilgrims (Nebraska) , two tornadoes moved side by side
03rd March 2019 23 At least a dozen tornadoes formed in Alabama and Georgia . All fatalities and 97 injuries were attributed to an EF4 tornado, most of which held 27 miles of ground contact in Lee County, Alabama .
02nd / 3rd March 2020 24 During the night, several tornadoes formed over Tennessee , one (EF3) also passed through the capital, Nashville . The strongest (EF4) moved through Putnam County . Several people were killed and over 300 injured. Almost 50 buildings were destroyed and numerous buildings, roads and bridges were damaged, and more than 47,000 households lost their power.
12./13. April 2020 33 On Easter Sunday, a series of around 60 tornadoes formed on an elongated storm front in the states of Texas , Louisiana , Arkansas , Mississippi , Tennessee , Alabama , Georgia , North Carolina and South Carolina . At least 33 people were killed. The power went out in more than a million households. The accommodation of people who had become homeless in emergency shelters was difficult due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated measures.

Germany

This selection shows significant events (F2 – F5 on the Fujita scale ) that are of interest by appearance or time of year. A comprehensive archive can be found in the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD).

date dead description
July 15, 1582 ? Rockhausen (Thuringia) (F4), the tornado almost completely destroyed the city.
June 29, 1764 ? Woldegk (Mecklenburg) (F5), one of the strongest tornadoes ever to have occurred in Germany, track length about 30 kilometers
April 23, 1800 ? Hainichen (Saxony) (F5), the second known tornado of magnitude F5 in Germany.
July 14, 1894 2 Cyclone east of Munich , suspected to be an F3 tornado
August 14, 1906 3 Cyclone in the Bergisches Land
0June 1, 1913 ? A tornado in Plochingen destroyed numerous buildings.
August 10, 1925 1 Uetersen wind trousers (F3)
0June 1, 1927 ? Auen-Holthaus (district of Cloppenburg), devastating damage, cows thrown through the air, more severe / devastating tornadoes on the same day, including in the Netherlands (F4)
July 11, 1951 ? Severe weather in Northern Germany (F2)
July 10, 1968 2 Tornado over Pforzheim , 2 dead, over 200 injured, some critically, 1,750 houses damaged (F4)
0May 5th 1973 1 Kiel , one dead (F3)
May 24, 1979 0 Tornado on a line from Bad Liebenwerda through Prestewitz to near Lübben (F4)
June 15, 1980 6th Tornado in Wilhelmsthal (F1): 6 people die from knocked over trees, 11 others are injured.
17th July 1987 0 Tornado in Geeste-Dalum (F1): A tornado damages 70 houses in the Großer Sand settlement . 3 people are injured.
0August 9, 1992 0 A tornado caused great damage in Buchholz in the north heath . Various houses and cars were damaged, electricity pylons were broken and the like. many trees, some of them ancient, were uprooted.
June 29, 1997 0 Four F2 tornadoes in Lower Saxony with a track length of up to 85 km. The worst affected is Bissendorf near Osnabrück. (F2)
June 22, 1998 0 On June 22nd, 1998 a tornado swept over the Western Ore Mountains / Vogtland. The city of Falkenstein was particularly affected. The tornado moved over Hammerbrücke, Jägersgrün and Tannenbergsthal towards Morgenröthe Rautenkranz. Millions of dollars were lost.
0September 9, 1998 0 An F2 tornado raged between Ibbenbüren and Tecklenburg (west of Osnabrück). In addition to countless overturned trees, power lines were torn down and roofs covered. The Tecklenburg district of Ledde was hardest hit .
0August 6, 2001 0 An F1 / F2 tornado cut a six-kilometer-long and 50-meter-wide swath right through the center of the municipality of Belm near Osnabrück . The total damage was over five million DM.
June 12, 2002 0 An F2 tornado devastated an industrial park in Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt .
June 10, 2003 0 An F3 tornado hit the community of Acht in the Eifel . Due to the small size of the place, the total damage was limited, two people were injured.
January 13, 2004 0 Assel ( Drochtersen near Stade) (F2)
June 23, 2004 0 Micheln ( Saxony-Anhalt ), several injured, around 300 buildings damaged (F3)
March 27, 2006 2 A tornado passed over Hamburg at around 7 p.m. (estimated strength F2) . Two people died when three construction cranes fell over and more than 300,000 people were temporarily without electricity.
August 21, 2006 1 A man died in Brohl-Lützing after the caravan in which he was staying was thrown into a harbor basin by a tornado. His nine-year-old son survived seriously injured. In addition, some houses were badly damaged.
August 12, 2008 0 A tornado raged in the central Hessian city of Giessen . Although it was only an F1 tornado, the damage was significant. Numerous trees, roof tiles and even entire roof gables were thrown around and some houses, including a school and parts of the university, were damaged. The Giessen Philosopher Forest was particularly hard hit; Parts of the several hundred year old urban forest, including numerous oaks, fell victim to the tornado. The large current swirled for only a few minutes, detached itself from the surface of the earth over a mountain and retreated into the cloud front.
May 24, 2010 1 It devastated an F3 tornado , the tornado on Whit Monday , large parts of the city of Großenhain and the neighboring communities. A storm, moving from south-west Brandenburg to south-east Saxony, raged on a stretch of 80 to 100 kilometers as a windpipe and hailstorm. The center of the destruction was between the southern Brandenburg Mühlberg / Elbe and Grossenhain. In Grossenhain alone, around 40 people were injured, some seriously, and a child was killed by a falling tree. In the districts of Walda and Kleinthiemig, 80% of the roofs were destroyed.
August 23, 2010 0 A tornado raged over the central Hessian towns of Grünberg-Reinhardshain and Grünberg-Lumda. It was probably a strong F3 / T6 tornado that caused considerable damage to buildings and forest areas. More than 50 roofs were covered and several buildings and vehicles were partly badly damaged. The tornado left a path of devastation in a forest between the two villages. Numerous trees were snapped and uprooted like matches. Nobody was injured, but the tornado caused substantial property damage of around one million euros.
September 11, 2011 0 An F1 tornado devastated several towns between Bernburg and Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt.
19th of August 2013 0 During this event, an F2 tornado devastated a campsite in Abtsgmünd-Pommertsweiler in the Ostalb district (Baden-Württemberg), injuring 27 people there. Caravans flew through the air at a neighboring campsite. It was the first tornado of this magnitude since May 2012.
0May 5, 2015 0 A tornado devastated Bützow in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Twirling debris injured about 30 people. This tornado probably reached a magnitude of F3 on the Fujita scale . On the same day, according to the European Severe Weather Database, there were three more tornado events in Germany.
May 13, 2015 0 A tornado that occurred on the evening of May 13th over the district of Waldshut in Baden-Württemberg has probably reached a strength of F3.
May 13, 2015 0 Another tornado, which presumably reached a strength of F3, originated in the late evening of May 13th over Stettenhofen , then moved overhabenhofen to Affing in Bavaria and caused severe damage. It was the third F3 tornado in 2015 .
0June 7, 2016 0 An F1 tornado hit the eastern parts of Hamburg . Trees were overturned, summer houses destroyed and bicycles and large flower pots thrown through the air. No personal injuries were known.
May 16, 2018 0 An F2 tornado hit the district of Viersen in North Rhine-Westphalia on the evening of May 16, 2018, causing covered houses and uprooted trees to tumble on streets. Several people were slightly injured, one seriously.
March 13, 2019 0 On the afternoon of March 13, 2019, an F3 tornado hit the town of Roetgen in North Rhine-Westphalia . Several people were injured, around 35 houses, some seriously damaged, and ten houses were initially uninhabitable.
04th June 2019 0 During the night at 11:11 p.m., a tornado of magnitude F2 hit a residential area in Bocholt in North Rhine-Westphalia. One person was injured, nine houses were badly damaged, 100 trees were uprooted and cars and caravans were thrown through the air.

Austria

From 1951 to 2010, the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics registered almost 100 tornadoes in Austria, three of which reached strength F3. The most violent documented tornado occurred on July 10, 1916 in Wiener Neustadt in southern Lower Austria and killed 34 people.

date dead description
July 10, 1916 34 The most violent tornado recorded in Austria moved across the north of Wiener Neustadt and at times reached strength F4. He killed 34 people and injured 328. Numerous massive houses were destroyed, the length of the large current aisle was around 20 kilometers.
04th July 1929 3 An only moderately strong F1 / T3 tornado swept through the city of Salzburg , but still killed three people.
0May 9, 1961 1 One man died in an F2 / T5 tornado in Kleintal near Graz, and three others were injured by falling debris.
August 11, 1994 0 An F3 tornado drew a two-kilometer aisle near Sankt Michael in Burgenland . One building was completely destroyed and the roof of another was swept away.
0July 7, 1998 0 An F3 / T6 tornado near Weinburg am Saßbach drew a 5 km long aisle, uprooted trees, caused power outages and pushed in smaller walls.
July 27, 1998 0 An F3 / T6 trombone destroyed several farm buildings in the Vornholz area ( Hartberg-Fürstenfeld district / Styria ), the aisle was 8 km long.
May 13, 2003 0 In the course of a super cell with hail up to 6 cm in diameter, two tornadoes were registered in Vienna ; one of the two achieved F1 / T3 strength; several people were injured by storms and hailstones.
March 11, 2006 0 An F2 / T5 tornado in Weitensfeld in the Gurktal in Carinthia lifted a minibus around two meters into the air and hurled it against two cars. The eyewitnesses fled into an adjacent building.
May 11, 2009 0 Weak tornado near Atzenbrugg near Tulln , Lower Austria.
May 26, 2010 0 An F1 / T3 tornado caused numerous damage to electricity pylons, trees and vehicles in the Tulln district . An hour later, an F2 / T4 tornado knocked over trees near Kritzendorf and damaged buildings, vehicles and vines.
May 14, 2011 0 An F1 / T3 tornado passed through Müllendorf , Burgenland . In some cases, there was considerable property damage, many roofs were covered, the wind speeds were so high that parts of roof structures got stuck in the facades of other houses. People were not injured.
July 10, 2017 0 In the course of a super cell that had formed in the south of Vienna in the afternoon and which in some cases caused considerable damage from hail and local flooding, an F1 tornado with wind speeds of up to 180 km / h also appeared near Vienna Schwechat Airport. It moved over some grain fields and caused minor damage locally. People were not harmed.

Benelux countries

date dead description
June 25, 1967 7th Three F3 tornadoes occurred within an hour. The first was built at 4:15 p.m. and destroyed 117 houses in the Belgian town of Oostmalle. At 4:27 p.m. another tornado occurred in the Belgian-Dutch border area, which drew an 11-kilometer swath through the forest towards the village of Chaam until 4:40 p.m. Two people were killed on a campsite. At 5:10 p.m., a tornado occurred that stretched 15 kilometers across the country and hit the town of Tricht. He claimed 5 lives and 32 injured, destroyed 50 houses and damaged another 150.
0August 9, 2019 0 At around 6 p.m., an F2 tornado passed several kilometers through the southwest of Luxembourg and damaged around 160 houses in Pétange and Käerjeng . 19 people were injured, two of them seriously.

Bangladesh

date dead description
April 26, 1989 approx. 1300 A tornado in the Manikganj and Tangail districts killed around 1,300 people and injured more than 12,000. The cities of Manikgank Sadar and Saturia were destroyed, 80,000 people were left homeless. It is the deadliest documented tornado in the world.
May 13, 1996 about 500 A tornado in the Jamalpur and Tangail districts of Bangladesh left around 500 dead and nearly 33,000 injured.
22th of March 2013 31 A tornado in the Brahmanbaria district killed 31 people.

Turkey

date dead description
24./26. January 2019 2 Two people died in Kumluca and Finike in the province of Antalya on January 24th . A tornado hit Antalya Airport on January 26th, damaging two planes and a police helicopter, overturning buses and destroying several hundred houses.

Romania

date dead description
April 30, 2019 0 A tornado hit an occupied coach and whirled it tens of meters through the air, displacing it into a field. At least twelve of the 40 inmates were injured, four of them seriously. The tornado then just missed the village of Dragalina , destroying roofs and uprooting trees.

China

date dead description
3rd July 2019 6th In the northeast Chinese city ​​of Kaiyuan , a tornado injured over 190 people and destroyed factory buildings, apartments and power poles.

See also

Web links

Commons : Tornadoes  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Waterspouts  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Tornado  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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Europe as a whole:

USA / North America:

literature

Individual evidence

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