Twin Tornadoes Strike Germany

Yesterday, two tornadoes touched down in close proximity to each other. You may guess that this occurred in Oklahoma, or Kansas, but it didn’t. It occurred in Germany. Some crazy weather has been occurring in that region of the world recently, but this is pretty crazy in and of itself.

The phenomena that formed in Germany yesterday is one that rarely even occurs here, as I can think of only a few times off the top of my head that “Twin Tornadoes” have formed in the US, let alone a region that doesn’t have nearly the density of tornadoes that the US does.

These tornadoes were beautiful, and actually rotated within the larger mesocyclone to create a larger tornado. Check out these couple of videos of the tornadoes.

Those are legitimately crazy, especially the first one. In addition to the rarity of the storm itself, the first video is very rare outside of the US. It is fairly common, especially in Oklahoma, for news stations to send Helicopters up to take video of supercells as they produce tornadoes. Whether or not that is safe isn’t my point (Hint: it isn’t). My point is that on top of the rarity of the tornadoes themselves, this video is even rarer, and even cooler.

I like to compare events, and this is a lot like Pilger, NE tornado in 2014. While it may not have been in strength, the structure of the supercell to produce two separate tornadoes at the same time is likely similar enough.

Supercells like this are fascinating, and I would like to find out more about the environment that these German tornadoes formed in.