Towards an improved wind speed scale and damage description adapted for Central Europe

Feuerstein, B.; Groenemeijer, Pieter; Dirksen, E.; Hubrig, Martin; Holzer, Alois M.; Dotzek, Nikolai

doi:10.1016/j.atmosres.2010.12.026

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“…Doswell and Burgess (1988) argued that many tornadoes have inappropriate F ratings, perhaps by two categories or more. On the other hand, the F scale is largely based on damage to buildings, and the construction standards in Finland, as well as Europe as a whole, may differ from those in the United States (e.g., Feuerstein et al 2011). …”

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Tornado Climatology of Finland

Rauhala

Brooks

Schultz

2012

Monthly Weather Review

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Tornado Climatology of Finland

Rauhala

Brooks

Schultz

2012

Monthly Weather Review

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“…Dotzek, along with 10 European scientists, founded ESSL in December 2006 as a spinoff of DLR. In its first years, ESSL was (Feuerstein and Groenemeijer 2011). As of ESSL's tenth anniversary in July 2016, the ESWD contained over 100,000 individual severe weather reports.…”

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Severe Convective Storms in Europe: Ten Years of Research and Education at the European Severe Storms Laboratory

Groenemeijer

Púčik

Holzer

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Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

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The European Severe Storms Laboratory (ESSL) was founded in 2006 to advance the science and forecasting of severe convective storms in Europe. ESSL was a grassroots effort of individual scientists from various European countries. The purpose of this article is to describe the 10-yr history of ESSL and present a sampling of its successful activities. Specifically, ESSL developed and manages the only multinational database of severe weather reports in Europe: the European Severe Weather Database (ESWD). Despite efforts to eliminate biases, the ESWD still suffers from spatial inhomogeneities in data collection, which motivates ESSL’s research into modeling climatologies by combining ESWD data with reanalysis data. ESSL also established its ESSL Testbed to evaluate developmental forecast products and to provide training to forecasters. The testbed is organized in close collaboration with several of Europe’s national weather services. In addition, ESSL serves a central role among the European scientific and forecast communities for convective storms, specifically through its training activities and the series of European Conferences on Severe Storms. Finally, ESSL conducts wind and tornado damage assessments, highlighted by its recent survey of a violent tornado in northern Italy.

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“…In addition, DIs of the EF-scale are not defined to be used for historical building types. Therefore, the EF-scale is not applicable for the re-analyses of historical European tornado cases (Doswell et al, 2008), and this study instead employed the decision matrices from Feuerstein et al (2011).…”

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“…Then we select the F scale as a combination of f scales and structure types." Based on the Fujita conversion table from the f-scale to the F-scale, Feuerstein et al (2011) proposed a decision matrix for damage assessments that already includes the results of the conversion step and refines the outcomes to the lower or upper half of each original step. Feuerstein et al (2011) also designed a vegetation decision matrix following the same approach as the building type matrix, without including cornfield damage (Fig.…”

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A forensic re-analysis of one of the deadliest European tornadoes

Holzer¹,

Schreiner

Púčik³

2018

Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract.Extremely rare events with high potential impact, such as violent tornadoes, are of strong interest for climatology and risk assessment. In order to obtain more knowledge about the most extreme events, it is vital to study historical cases. The purpose of this paper is twofold: (1) to demonstrate how a windstorm catastrophe that happened 100 years ago, such as the Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, tornado on 10 July 1916, can be successfully re-analyzed using a forensic approach, and (2) to propose a repeatable working method for assessing damage and reconstructing the path and magnitude of local windstorm and tornado cases with sufficient historical sources. Based on the results of the forensic reanalyses, a chronology of the tornado impact is presented, followed by a description of the key tornado characteristics: a maximum intensity rating of F4, a damage path length of 20 km and a maximum visible tornado diameter of 1 km. Compared to a historical scientific study published soon after the event, additional new findings are presented, namely the existence of two predecessor tornadoes and a higher number of fatalities: at least 34 instead of 32. While the stormscale meteorology could not be reconstructed, rich damage data sources for the urban area of Wiener Neustadt facilitated a detailed analysis of damage tracks and wind intensities within the tornado. The authors postulate the requirement for an International Fujita Scale to rate tornadoes globally in a consistent way, based on comparable damage indicators.

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Towards an improved wind speed scale and damage description adapted for Central Europe

Cited by 38 publications

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Tornado Climatology of Finland

Tornado Climatology of Finland

Severe Convective Storms in Europe: Ten Years of Research and Education at the European Severe Storms Laboratory

A forensic re-analysis of one of the deadliest European tornadoes

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