Tornado in Bützow
The tornado in Bützow was an F3 T7 tornado ( Fujita scale / TORRO scale ). This means speeds of up to 342 km / h.
The tornado passed through Bützow in the Rostock district on the evening of May 5, 2015, between 18:45 and 18:50 . About 30 people were injured. A car was moved 70 meters further into the city, which also indicates a storm of the strength mentioned. A total of 16 houses were so badly damaged that they had to be declared uninhabitable and closed. The track of the tornado was 14.8 kilometers long and reached east of Kassow . The aisle was on average 600, in places up to 1500 meters wide. It was a so-called "wedge tornado". The tornado was a so-called multivortex tornado , that is, it consisted of several partial eddies. At the time of the tornado, the supercell in question had a clearly visible hook echo .
In 2017, most of the damage, which amounted to around 40 million euros, was repaired.
weather condition
On May 5th, the center of the Zoran depression was over the British Isles. It carried warm air from North Africa and the Mediterranean to Germany, so that the daytime temperatures rose to values of 20 ° C to 27 ° C. Before the cold front, heavy precipitation with thunderstorms moved eastward over northern Germany from the Netherlands. A shortwave trough at heights intensified the uplift processes at the air mass limit. In southern Germany, a strong foehn , which reached gusts of up to 120 km / h on the Zugspitze, prevented thunderstorms from occurring until evening. In these thunderstorms, some of which were accompanied by hail, some gusts reached hurricane strength. At least six tornadoes resulted from these thunderstorms in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, of which the tornado in Bützow was the strongest. A tornado observed in Groß Laasch reached strength F2 . The two tornadoes in Brüel and Ahrensboek reached strength F1. There are also several suspected tornado cases, including from Lübeck.
Web links
- Tornado in Bützow: Destructive vortex , Tagesspiegel, May 6, 2015
- The tornado on the way to Bützow , Der Stern, May 6, 2015
- A tornado devastated Bützow, a dead person in Hamburg , Die Welt, May 5, 2015
supporting documents
- ^ Ansgar Siemens: Tornado in Bützow: "Roof tiles have perforated cars". In: Spiegel Online. May 6, 2015, accessed May 18, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c Tornado list Germany. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on May 18, 2015 ; Retrieved May 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Bützow Tornado, archive entry. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
- ↑ http://kachelmannwetter.com/de/regenradar/deutschland/mecklenburg-vorpommern/rostock/20150505-1630z.html
- ↑ Official forum of Skywarn Deutschland eV • View topic - (Tornado) May 5th, 2015 - Bützow (LRO | MV). In: forum.skywarn.de. Retrieved May 18, 2015 .
- ↑ The scars heal. Schweriner Volkszeitung , May 3, 2017, archived from the original on May 3, 2017 ; Retrieved May 5, 2017 .
- ↑ Storms with tornadoes cause severe damage in Northern Germany on May 5, 2015. (PDF, 1.1 MB) (No longer available online.) German Weather Service, May 6, 2015, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; Retrieved May 18, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
