News DetailHigh Risk for severe weather in Greece!
Posted At: October 21, 2007 @ 10:39 AM
Posted By: Reed Timmer
Related Categories: Tornadoes
A high risk for severe weather and tornadoes has been issued for southeastern Greece and the Aegean Sea this afternoon/evening by the European Storm Forecast Experiment (ESTOFEX), as a strong shortwave trough ejects from the base of a larger, parent trough over the Mediterranean Sea. Shown below is the graphic issued in the last hour (thanks to Volker for letting us know about this!).
The blue dots in the figure above are lightning stirkes, showing a massive MCS moving rapidly towards Greece from the Mediterranean. While I have not been able to locate any model data, the text associated with this outlook states that sufficient deep-layer shear is present for supercells ahead of a cold front currently draped across central Greece, but there was no mention of the low-level shear values over the region. More information on this severe weather setup, including reports, can be found at www.estofex.org. Stay tuned for updates!
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Wonder what kind of warning system they have for tornado's?
Score! First comment!
Severe weather in Greece? I never knew greece got severe weather...Interesting.
I'm still searching for 12z soundings from around the area. I was only able to locate these 00z sounding diagrams:
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/meteo/winfos/radiosonden/Europa/Iraklion.html
http://www.uni-koeln.de/math-nat-fak/geomet/meteo/winfos/radiosonden/Europa/Athens_Hellenkion.html
GFS model outputs:
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/topkarten/fsavneur.html
Still searching...
I knew they had severe heat waves and I knew Europe would have some pretty nasty wind storms(100mph)type stuff-but yea-I never thought of them having tornadoes, like when we saw the video of Spain's tornado-never knew it! Learn something new every day!
How cool is that eh? Severe weather in Greece... I guess you don't normally think about the two going together ;) Very interesting.
http://meteoalarm.eu/countryGR.asp?areaname=&area=&ShowDate=&Country=GR&lang=EN#
12z Soundings Iraklion (Creta):
http://expert.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/geturl/daten/profi/en/temps/16754_12.gif
Convective weather maps:
http://lightningwizard.estofex.org
12z Sounding Iraklion (Creta):
http://expert.weatheronline.co.uk/cgi-bin/probild?LANG=en&DATEI=16754_12.gif&BASE=temps
(working link)
I wonder what AAAAAAAAA looks like in the cyrillic alphabet?!
WOW Go greese lighning!!!
LOL Caleb!! That's funny!! I hope the lightning doesn't start more Greece fires!! lol
Caleb, that is possibly your funniest comment of all time! :D
That one makes me question if he really is 10!! hehe jk
Pretty witty!! I must say!!
Yeah I'me the class clown in my class LOL!
"Wonder what kind of warning system they have for tornado's?"
- I guess the Greek have none. They have also no free public weather radar.That's a bit like in the Stone Age :-( ...
"I wonder what AAAAAAAAA looks like in the cyrillic alphabet?!"
- AAAAAAAA = AAAAAAAA in cyrillic :P
Here some YouTube videos of severe weather in Greece (not from today):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4-CXJvjR50
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HneZ7cezWdc
Hey guys.....New blog lol :P
In greece south of preveza (ormos sivota) Back on october 8th (PM) we suffered a major series of storms, also involving force 8 gusts. There was lightning at one stage around 00:30 local time that was so constant it lit up the bay like floodlights
can anyone dig up any radar for me of this memorable storm?