Yesterday evening a tornado occurred in southern Sardinia, causing the first Italian tornado-related injury since June 25th 2024 www.unionesarda.it/news-sardegn...

European Severe Weather Database (ESWD) - FEBRUARY 2026 3,330 Severe Weather Reports Fatalities: 62 - Avalanches: 45 | Rain/Floods: 14 | Winds: 2 | Snowstorm: 1 @essl-ecss.bsky.social @tanjarenko.bsky.social @federicopavan.bsky.social @bramvantveen.bsky.social @meteonews.ch

Another vantage point of the Union City, Michigan tornado, filmed by a local technician, Mitchell Hart. We do not recommend ever getting this close to a twister... #severewx #wxsky

Full panorama of the 2025 Dickens/Wellfleet LP tornado+supercell! View is looking ESE up into the mesocyclone. The RFD clear slot is visible in the upper right, and in the distance on the bottom left you can even see a bit of the FFCB. Stationary supercell with deviant westerly tornado. Perfection!

New update on the Apulia tornado of Feb 17: with new reports and Sentinel-2 imagery clues, what we previously reported as two separate twisters are now merged into one almost-19 km long path, becoming the longest tracked tornado known in Italy in February

🌪️Publication du rapport sur la tornade qui a frappé Cousolre (Nord) le 16 février. L'enquête de terrain permet d'établir un contact au sol pendant 11 min, avec un parcours total de 11,7 km. Intensité EF1 (135-175 km/h). ➡️dossier complet : urlr.me/kXwmP3

INCREDIBLE footage from earlier this evening from the 43 Fire just southwest of Woodward, Oklahoma! Absolutely INSANE firewhirls in the main fire line as it very quickly advanced northeast towards Woodward!

Overnight thunderstorms (at least one was supercellular) brought hail and intense wind damage in Apulia (between Oria and Brindisi), we will have to investigate to try and understand if there was a tornado. What a way to wake up!

La Voix du Nord vient de publier un article dessus. C'est encore sommaire, mais on a déjà une idée de l'ampleur des dégâts : www.lavoixdunord.fr/1675522/arti...

While I had my focus on the northern one of 2 cells near FR-BE border this evening, the southern one actually produced a tornado. @corentinaugris.bsky.social found a report of damage in Cousoire (without photos yet), and radar shows a very convincing brief TDS here.

Impressive low-level meso currently. And a bit earlier there was a CC minimum inside the hook, but since it was embedded in a large region of low CC I doubt that it was a TDS.

Quite a suspicious looking storm near the French-Swiss border a while ago

It's not the best time for the French radar network, with 5 radars inoperational currently (and not counting that 1 X-band close to Italy)

Météo-France has now provided me with the full dataset for Trappes for the Ermont IF2 tornado, which killed 1 person and injured at least 9. In this storm-following loop you can see a strong RFD surge leading up to the tornado:

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🌪️Publication du rapport sur la tornade qui a frappé Mios (Gironde) le 31 janvier. L'enquête de terrain permet d'établir un contact au sol pendant + de 20 min, avec parcours total de 23,3 km. Intensité EF1 (135-175 km/h). ➡️dossier complet : urlr.me/sumVSA

En plus de la très médiatisée tornade de Mios, un autre phénomène venteux s'est produit hier, à 12h20, sur la commune de Saint-Simon-de-Pellouaille (Charente-Maritime). Les témoignages font état de dégâts sur les toitures et la végétation. Pour l'heure, nous n'avons qu'une seule image de dégâts.

And two more videos : www.facebook.com/melany13/vid... www.facebook.com/reel/1914989...

The tornadic supercell south of Bordeaux might have cycled and produced a new (short-lived) tornado, given another possible TDS at the end of this loop:

Une tornade a été observée à Mios (Gironde) sous ce remarquable écho. Plusieurs dégâts sont signalés et la tornade a pu être filmée : www.facebook.com/diane.chesie...

A radar loop of this almost certainly tornadic supercell SW of Bordeaux. A likely TDS is visible at the last 2 scans. It could have hit places such as Arnauton and Argilas @corentinaugris.bsky.social

Possible tornado SW of Bordeaux now

Tornado potential exists in SW France today with these storms moving in from the Atlantic, in an environment with modest CAPE and quite some streamwise vorticity due to curved hodographs.

Remember this? Well, go check out the shot taken by Francesco Pepe on his Instagram! www.instagram.com/p/DUDkWKEigY...

Fantastic waterspout in front of Cetraro, Calabria. Photo by Albertina Pepe

Here is a short radar loop, with a marker along the damage track visible in the image on the left. The small region of greenish colors at 23:24Z nicely matches with the location of the damage, which increases confidence that it is actually a (faint) tornadic debris signature.

De nouvelles informations nous sont parvenues sur ces deux phénomènes. Celui de Riocaud a pu être filmé par plusieurs caméras, confirmant la tornade : www.facebook.com/reel/1285555...

Last night France had another likely tornado event: x.com/bor1s/status.... Damage looks highly suspicious, as does radar, since it indicates a low-topped supercell with possible small tornadic debris signature (small area of greenish colors starting in hook at 23:24Z, then expanding next frame).

Cet après-midi, un phénomène venteux a causé d'importants dégâts sur la commune de Riocaud (Gironde). La toiture de l'église a notamment été emportée : www.sudouest.fr/gironde/libo...

Although it's sadly quite incomplete, there's now a dataset for the Trappes radar available for the tornado event of 20 October last year (IF2 tornado with 1 death and 9 injuries). It among others show a very clear tornadic debris signature. Velocity quality is quite bad.

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I'm convinced the ucar archive walked so that chasearchive.com could run Let's give @ameliaurquhart.bsky.social and @stormchasertang.bsky.social another round of applause

One year ago today Sicily suffered the largest known tornado outbreak for the month of January in Italy. Five confirmed twisters and two additional waterspouts out to sea caused damage around the southeast portion of the island, creating new records in this regard

2 years in the making: a RAP-based, track-based, full-sounding analog system. Here's a hypothetical forecast for the Cole, OK tornado on 4/19/23, where it predicts large hail and the potential for deviantly-moving EF2+ tornadoes.

ESWD - DEC 2025: 2,355 #wx Reports Fatlities: 55 (Rain/Floods: 45 | Wind: 4 | Avalanches: 3 | Lightning: 2 | Ice Accumulation: 1) @tanjarenko.bsky.social @essl-ecss.bsky.social @bramvantveen.bsky.social @federicopavan.bsky.social @alluringstorms.bsky.social @manueloberhuber.bsky.social

Is damaging hail getting worse? An ESSL-led study published in Nature Geoscience finds that very large hail is modelled to occur most frequently in South America, the United States, and South Africa, but Europe shows the strongest increase in very large hail frequency. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

1 day of melting layer evolution as seen in a vertical cross-section for a Dutch radar: streamable.com/hoyyr4

Experts waarschuwen: ‘Nederland lijkt deze week van bovenaf gevaarlijk veel op Groenland’

Are you interested in tornadoes in Germany (temporal+spatial distribution) you should read our recently published paper. It is the first detailed statistical analysis since the paper of Dotzek (2003). Would be happy to learn about statistics in other European countries! doi.org/10.1127/metz...

The Atlantic west of Norway also remains interesting. Look at these southwestward moving snowpercells of last night:

It's looking pretty nice outside here

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The far southeastern suburbs of Rome (Ciampino area) observed the first Italian tornado of 2026. Video via Meteo Lazio

Beautiful swirls visible in radar imagery from the Norwegian coast over the past 2 days:

Decent rotation in this storm over the North Sea:

Varias mangas marinas 🌪️ tocan tierra en #Mazarrón (Región de Murcia), España.

Elevated storms with severe winds associated with gravity waves remain one of the most interesting weather phenomena to me. And vertical cross-sections of radial velocity nicely show their wave structures. Here is an example from the US, from a storm that produced serious wind damage:

Hurricane MELISSA's winds were the fiercest I've witnessed. & this is one of the highest gusts I filmed before 100% whiteout. The palm is bending so far, the crown is below the railing. This megagust happens at 43:26 in my video. Soon after, you can't see anything—just a screaming wall of whiteness.