Tornado in Belgium the 1st of october

[Christophe Suarez]

Good evening,

At 5 pm, on sunday, a very nice small tornado occured in Belgium. Although it sometimes happens, such a nice tornado is not that common over Europe. This picture was taken by Frank and Karel Holvoet from Belgium


http://www.inln.cnrs.fr/IMG/jpg/metgp_tornade_Alsenberg_BE_1.jpg


There's a small compilation of this event here, with a link to a video :
http://foudre.chasseurs-orages.com/viewtopic.php?t=808

Chris

[Andrew Khan]

Beautiful tornado Christophe....well done capturing it, at such an intense scene and moment. The sun providing the extra hue adds a lot to it, I believe.

I hope you do not mind me posting this image, but if you go to the site link he posted, it takes you to others accounts, and it appears, there was damage, here is one photo that is very bad looking.

http://forum.meteogiornale.it/attachment.php?attachmentid=20768&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1159800538

I did not take this picture, nor am I affiliaated with it in any way.

[Dean Gill]

Actually, if you use the link sent by Christophe and scroll down, you'll also find the three following links:
http://forum.meteogiornale.it/showthread.php?t=24410 (http://forum.meteogiornale.it/showthread.php?t=24410)
http://www.weerwoord.be/includes/forum_read.php?id=545614&tid=545614 (http://www.weerwoord.be/includes/forum_read.php?id=545614&tid=545614)
http://www.meteoradar.ch/forum/showthread.php?id=4374 (http://www.meteoradar.ch/forum/showthread.php?id=4374)

Hey Christophe, for me this tornado doesn't look that small and such tornadoes are probably more common in Europe than people usually think!
Of course, chasing in Europe is hell because of mountains, lack of radar data, trafic jam, toll ways (in France and Italy) and expensive gas prices...
I wish we had something like the Mobilethreatnet in Europe!:rolleyes:

[Andrea Griffa]

Very nice cone;)

[Rodney Harper]

Awesome pic I think. Nice grab.

[Christophe Suarez]

Beautiful tornado Christophe....well done capturing it, at such an intense scene and moment. The sun providing the extra hue adds a lot to it, I believe.

I hope you do not mind me posting this image, but if you go to the site link he posted, it takes you to others accounts, and it appears, there was damage, here is one photo that is very bad looking.

http://forum.meteogiornale.it/attachment.php?attachmentid=20768&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1159800538

I did not take this picture, nor am I affiliaated with it in any way.

As clearly mentioned in all the forums, this picture was taken by Frank and Karel Holvoet from Belgium. I just see I forgot to mention it in this topic the last night (it was late, it's true...), sorry for that. By the way, I wish I had the opportunity to capture it myself, but I live far away from Belgium, close to Geneva !

Dean, I'm afraid I don't see here something like "Tornado Alley". Such phenomenons are quite unpredictable over Europe, although you showed me nice areas like northern Italy where supercells sometimes occurs ;)

Chris

[Dean Gill]

Dean, I'm afraid I don't see here something like "Tornado Alley".
Chris
if you mean it doesn't look like a wedge... ok.
Actually this tornado is not much different from what I saw in Tornado Alley two years ago. I'd say it's just a "normal" size tornado.

[Bill Hark]

Wow, that is an awesome tornado!! I love the shape and color. The video is pretty cool.
http://www.nbc4.com/video/9990467/index.html


Bill Hark
Eastern Fury: Tornadoes of the Eastern United States
http://www.harkphoto.com/EasternFury.html