Tornadoes sighted on the West Coast – Göteborgs-Posten

Reading Photo: Ulf Hjelmberg was out for a walk in Fiskebackskil when he saw the tornado.

Photo: Reading Picture Marie Ohlsson

Tornado outside Nidingen, 2013.

Tornado in Olofsbo 26/8 2003. the family Joxelius checks out the damage in his garden by a neighbor husras visible in the background. A roof lay in the garden …. Closest Paul Joxelius camera with flashlight. Photo: Niklas Henrikczon

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Sweden It is not completely harmless weather phenomenon tornadoes formed during Saturday’s thunderstorms in Skåne, southern and central Sweden. Now SMHI warns that there may be more a week.

SMHI received on Saturday in several observations about the tornadoes occurred in Scania and Sodermanland associated with thunder.

– A tornado formed in a thundercloud and consists of a whirlwind. It looks like a funnel around, says Alexandra Ohlsson, meteorologist at SMHI.

Also on Friday came the rain on the West Coast. Then there were many bohuslän tions who saw the tornadoes. Ulf Hjelmgren had been out for a walk in Fiskebackskil with the family when they felt there was unrest in the air and the sky grew darker.

– Then we saw the tornado. We were not afraid, but it’s fascinating, I think. We have seen some before, but it was very long ago now, says Ulf Hjelmgren previously had their picture of the tornado published by Swedish Television News West.

But even if a tornado may look cool out, you should not approach it.

– You should definitely not go near it. It has such power that it can throw around loose items, warns Ohlsson.

It is not uncommon that tornadoes form in Sweden, both on water and on land, especially in summer when it thunder.

– The Swedish tornadoes are not comparable with those found in the United States. There they are much stronger, says Alexandra Ohlsson.

The storm in southern Sweden, Svealand and Eastern Götaland pulls the coming week further up towards the northern parts of Norrland.

– The looks to be thunderstorms and locally heavy rain. Then there are the conditions for the emergence of more tornadoes, but then up the country, she said.

While the northern Norrland rain and thunder, it is in much of the country is very dry. SMHI warns of high or locally very high risk of fires in the forests in the eastern part of the country.

– So exercise caution, for example, if you are grilling, says Alexandra Ohlsson.

• tornado, tornado and tORNADO is different coverings on the powerful whirlwinds
• in Sweden, a number of tornadoes each year, with less material damage. Serious property damage or personal injuries are rare.
• One of the most powerful tornadoes during the 1900s drew out July 10, 1993 in southern Dalarna from Brovallen to Byvalla, where it disintegrated. The tornado caused extensive damage in the form of fallen trees on roads, blown away roofs and intense hailstorms and thunderstorms. Damage to millions of crowns arose and a 6-year-old girl was killed by a falling tree.

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