Tornado in Italy - July 6, 2008

A successful chase in northern Italy. Left Geneva - Switzerland for a 600 km drive to Venice - Italy. Intercepted a first cell around noon west of Milan (north of Novara), then headed towards Venice where nicely backed easterly winds from the Adriatic provided an excellent environment for supercells and tornadoes (high dew points and strong low level directional shear). Intercepted a second storm which fired on the Alpine foot hills near Verona. It quickly became supercellular as it entered the Venetian plain. A first rain wrapped tornado occurred south of Padua then a second one as the storm entered the Venetian lagoon. Actually, not sure how to call it, tornado or mesocyclonic waterspout? as it occurred over the western fringe of the lagoon called "Dead Lagoon", which is a mixture of water and land.

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• storm
• chase
• italy

[MrFreddy2189]

@daffodilsfield Wow too bad I'm the only one who respond to it after a year but better late than never!

Well if you compare the Italian po Valley to the US tornado alley about tornadoes per year can't be of course the same percentage, but if you consider that the Po Valley (the italian tornado alley) is at least 9-10 times littlest than the american one percentage and forces Ef3 Ef4 Ef5 tìetc... does not change that much related to the spaces.....

[Gebora]

i dont understand what they are saying, but its nice to just listen to them talk in a calm tone, unlike some people who scream at tornadoes and supercells all the time.

[daffodilsfield]

does northern italy have a lot of tornados?

[StormChaserNathan]

Great footage!!!

[BarrieStylez]

thanks for uploading! awesome video. i love european supercells