Source:  The WeatherSpace.com

A rare event has struck Emilia Romagna, Northern Italy today.  In 1999 on this day it was Oklahoma City, today it was Northern Italy.

A storm system pushed out of Spain, generating upper level divergence across the area.  Clear skies boosted instability and a strong southerly wind brought in the shear factors.  The only thing I’m curious about is … where was the strong upper level jet?

Usually, tornadoes such as this show up in strong upper level jet systems.  I couldn’t find anything over 50 km/hour, which means that although it looks big and bad, the tornado may have been on the weaker side on the surface.  These tornadoes seem more typical of the Northern California type tornadoes..

But, we will see in time when an estimation is given on what the damage number would be.  In addition to this tornado, baseball-sized hail fell with the supercell.  This is an extremely rare and almost unheard of occurrence for this region.

For now, enjoy the slideshow below, with tornado images, hail images, satellite images, and radar images of this event.

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