{"id":20607,"date":"2026-03-19T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/?p=20607"},"modified":"2026-03-19T16:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T15:22:24","slug":"a-review-of-border-crossing-tornadoes-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/a-review-of-border-crossing-tornadoes-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"A review of border-crossing tornadoes in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thilo K\u00fchne from the ESSL team, working on ESWD data and quality control, collected rare cases of tornadoes crossing national borders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the maintenance of a tornadic circulation is only a matter of physical variables and not influenced by political boundaries, there is still a statistical issue when it comes to the counting of tornado cases on a national level. This article discusses examples, the historical practice and current ESWD policy for such cases. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/20260319-Border-Crossing-Tornadoes-in-Europe-final.pdf\">Read the full story here (PDF). <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"602\" height=\"287\" src=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1.png 602w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1-300x143.png 300w, https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/Picture1-1-500x238.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><figcaption>Tornado path of the IF1.5 tornado in the Lithuania-Belarus border area on 05 June 2025 based on satellite data showing forest damage and tree falls (mapping: ESSL, basemap: GoogleMaps)<br><br><br><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thilo K\u00fchne from the ESSL team, working on ESWD data and quality control, collected rare cases of tornadoes crossing national borders. While the maintenance of a tornadic circulation is only a matter of physical variables and not influenced by political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/a-review-of-border-crossing-tornadoes-in-europe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=20607"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20614,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20607\/revisions\/20614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essl.org\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}