This is a list of all tornadoes that were confirmed throughout Europe by the European Severe Storms Laboratory and local meteorological agencies during 2022. Unlike the United States, the original Fujita Scale and the TORRO scale are used to rank tornadoes across the continent. In France, Keraunos, the french observatory of severe storm, uses a EF scale since 2008.
European yearly total
So far, there have been 229 confirmed tornadic events reported in Europe in 2022
Countries not listed in this table have no reported tornadoes thus far in 2022.
A brief tornado caused damage in Sandnes. Roof tiles ripped off, wooden fencing downed. An outhouse was picked up by the winds and turned upside down. Trees was uprooted, and small twigs were broken off. The tornado reached 30 meters wide.
A high-end F1 tornado damaged multiple points of interest in Casekow. A farm area and farmhouse were badly damaged. Roof and solar panels were lifted and thrown, with parts shred to pieces. Heavy damage was reported in a small, nearby forest, with trees debranched and snapped.
Significant tornadic damage reported. Some buildings almost fully destroyed. A brick cowshed collapsed, killing a bull inside. Debarked trees and structural damages indicated strong F2 damage.
Tornadic wind damage was spotted in Krzykosy and Cząstków. At least 6 households were damaged in both villages. Power transmission lines destroyed, and damage to roofs or completely destroyed roofs occurred.
An outbuilding and a garage were nearly fully destroyed along with a roof of a cowshed with 50 cows living inside the building. Forests were damaged in a rotating pattern in the immediate area as well.
Buildings were almost fully destroyed, with farmland and insulation layers also damaged. Some walls partly collapsed, and heavy damage to roofs was reported in the area as well.
Damage to multiple residential and outbuildings, especially to roofs, a few of wich have been completely destroyed. An agricultural trailer has been partially overturned. A few acacias have been damaged to the north-west of the village and a willow tree has been downed to the east.
A lot of damage to structures (damaged or destroyed roofs in particular) occurred with debris scattered around. A local forest was partially destroyed. Cars dented, Car windows broken.
Several buildings were destroyed, others had walls partially collapsed. Some ducks were killed under a heavily damaged foil tunnel. Many trees were uprooted and snapped.
A roof of a residential building was partially damaged with wooden beams and metal sheets blown at least 150 metres away from a residential building. A few trees were also damaged.
Multiple trees have been damaged or snapped around the area of Korytkowska street. Debris, likely from small structures in the area, has been scattered in a path towards the north-east. Numerous damage occurred in the villages of Korytków and Chlebów, which are to the east of the previously mentioned area.
Trucks and trailers were overturned. Roofs nearly entirely torn off from residential buildings. Roofs elements (sheet metal, warming) stuck on the nearby trees.
Roofs were damaged or destroyed in the village. In one case, a wooden beam was stuck into the elevation of a building. Trees in a nearby forest were destroyed in a converging pattern, indicative of tornadic high-end F1 damage.
Two injuries - Numerous houses, outbuildings and trees were damaged. Power transmition and communication lines were destroyed. A 65-year-old woman sustained head injuries by a falling roof truss. Her 16-year-old grandson was injured by broken window glass.
At least 2 roofs damaged. One of a residential building, ripped apart and scattered for a distance of ~150 metres. The other of a nearby outbuilding, partially torn off.
In some parts of the villages roof debris was scattered 400m or more. Buildings were almost fully destroyed, walls collapsed and roofs torn off. A forest was destroyed, with many trees snapped or uprooted.
Two trucks were overturned on A1 highway near Sierosław. One of the drivers sustained injuries. Almost all buildings in the village sustained damage, roofs destroyed and damage to windows and insulation layers. One person was injured.
2 deaths – A crane was overturned causing two fatalities, construction workers on the ground, and two more people were injured. A roof of a Biedronka supermarket on Półłanki street was heavily damaged. Some cars were damaged by fallen elements of the roof. Two people were injured.
Snapped and downed power lines. Crops damaged or destroyed. Greenhouses' roof and wall coverings damaged and torn off (broken in cases of glass coverings). Greenhouses' frames damaged and collapsed, some greenhouses completely destroyed.
Damage to trees, (broken branches, some trees entirely downed). Road impassable (100 m). Greenhouses' roof and wall coverings damaged and/or torn off, frames damaged and collapsed, some greenhouses completely destroyed. Crops damaged and/or destroyed.
Trees damaged or downed. Crops and vegetation damaged and/or destroyed. Damage to power and telecommunication infrastructure. Greenhouses' coverings damaged and torn off, frames damaged and partly collapsed. Houses with damage ranging from some roof tiles blown away to broken windows and partly collapsed walls. Upper structure oh a weak building got ripped off and blown away. A mosques tower has collapsed as well.
Damage to trees. 2 police cars damaged by trees falling on them. Several roofs damaged, especially roof of a local high school. A street lamp has been downed.
A waterspout that came onshore. Crops have been damaged or destroyed. Greenhouses' coverings damaged and torn off in some places, glass windows smashed, frames damaged and partially collapsed. Two cows have been reported to have been lifted off of the ground.
Field covers lifted and whirled in the air, some of them hit a power line and the resulting short circuit burned them in half. A cyclist has been slightly injured when the tornado knocked her bike.
Damage reported in Beek, Spaubeek, and Schinnen. One roof partly collapsed, and multiple other roofs were damaged (rooftiles/roofing blown off). Multiple trees were downed, and many branches were blown off. Cars dented, and car windows and windshields broken.
Large, damaging tornado observed in Lippstadt. Heavy damage to trees, cars and buildings. Cars damaged beyond repair. Large trees uprooted and branches broken, and roofs destroyed.
Damaging tornado in Paderborn. Damages include roads impassible, cars damaged beyond repair, trucks and/or trailers overturned, trees uprooted or snapped. 43 people were injured, 13 of whom sustained serious injuries.
Tornado damaged several roofs extensively and uprooted/snapped dozens of trees in Ovenhausen and Lütmarsen. Unspecified car damage was also reported. Two people were injured in relation to this tornado.
Sheet metal roof ripped off, Trees uprooted or lost large branches & heavy trailers weighing 7.5 tons were overturned. The tornado caused power outages as well
This tornado is the most intense recorded for the Cévennes, with an average altitude of 1250 m. It is one of the highest altitude tornadoes observed in France. It ravaged no less than 4 hectares of forest, and caused moderate damage to several homes and agricultural buildings. It is also one of the only 3 tornadoes observed in the department of Lozère since 1900.
