{"id":1777,"date":"2015-09-24T14:20:29","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T12:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/?page_id=1777"},"modified":"2026-05-22T09:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:18:31","slug":"detailed-survey-reports","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/publications\/detailed-survey-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe Weather Surveys and Survey Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first full version of the <strong>International Fujita Scale (IF Scale)<\/strong> has been published on 28 July 2023 and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/research-projects\/international-fujita-scale\/\">available here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>When extremely severe weather happens in Europe, ESSL participates in damage surveys. Reports of these surveys can be found here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/24-June-2021-violent-tornado-damage-assessment-.pdf\">Report: The F4 tornado in Moravia on 24 June 2021<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150902-Mira-Tornado-of-8-July-2015-Report.pdf\">Report: The F4 tornado in Northern Italy near Mira on 8 July 2015<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150902-survey_data.pdf\">Attachment <\/a>listing all recorded damages<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/20150902-Towards-an-International-Fujita-Scale-ESSL-rating-practice.pdf\">Attachment&nbsp;<\/a>listing the method that was followed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A decision matrix for damage to plants, presented by Martin Hubrig at the ECSS2015, can be downloaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/ECSS-2015_Poster-hub-final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/meetingorganizer.copernicus.org\/ECSS2015\/ECSS2015-146.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> the abstract).<\/p>\n<p>A draft report on &#8220;International Approaches to Tornado Damage Characterization&#8221; by Kopp et al. (International Tornado Working Group 2017) is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/media\/pdf\/KoppReport2017draft.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ESSL&#8217;s Organizational Guide to Wind Damage Surveys<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/20250910-ESSL-guide-logistics-for-wind-damage-surveys.pdf\">Download the guide (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/20260522-Tornado-info-sheet-for-use-at-site-surveys.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Tornado Info Sheet (PDF) (opens in a new tab)\">Tornado Info Sheet (PDF)<\/a> &#8230; for distribution to affected people during site surveys<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first full version of the International Fujita Scale (IF Scale) has been published on 28 July 2023 and is available here.&nbsp; When extremely severe weather happens in Europe, ESSL participates in damage surveys. Reports of these surveys can be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/publications\/detailed-survey-reports\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":162,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"sidebar-page.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1777","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21038,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1777\/revisions\/21038"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}