Do you like to search for traces of tornadoes on google maps in your country?
I do it sometimes.

I think I need to get fresh meteorology satellites photos. Google isn't really updating their maps.

Not sure in the origin of these. There are quite a lot of it and it's all along the coast. But it doesn't look like there was continuous path.

>>211658451
Or maybe the place is just more active and get them quite often.

>>211658088 (OP)
>>211658218
how do you know that's a tornado trace

couldn't it just be a crappy soil formation or something

>>211659048
It's a tornado active part of the region. And there were some tornados documented. And by the trace it definitely doesn't look like bad soil. Look at all of the fallen trees and directions.

>>211659048
Btw, tried to google more info. There is actually an old map which documented tornadoes. And this one is actually documented.
Unfortunately the maps is working bad and ends somewhere in the September of 2024.

>>211659231
ok, didn't see the trees, you might have a point

however, I will note that often a very bad rainstorm can cause whole stretches of forest to fall down like that, it happened here last year. we got like 2 months' worth of rainfall in a single night along with moderate wind and a thunderstorm, huge swathes of forest got felled all over the country.

Why do you think it's especially tornadoes and not storms ?

>>211659606
Yeah, I looked on the map more and found out that this >>211658451 >>211658518 is just fall of the trees by huge windstorm, not caused by a tornado.
Filtered by "пpoчиe вeтpoвaлы"

>>211659606
hmm apparently I got the dates on the images wrong, it just looks like it has cleared. but I know for a fact that some of those patches fell during the rainstorm in 2024 because I drove past and saw whole patches of trees lying on their side, the lighting just isn't clear

>>211659684
I'm not sure windstorm can work like that >>211658088 (OP) >>211658218 also picrel.
But I'm pretty sure storm can work like that >>211658518
And I even have proves >>211659499 >>211659697

This is the map of my region with documented tornadoes since 1984.

>>211659862
how do they track them, radar?

>>211659499
Is this recorded by some automated meteorological system? does it have an overlay on the satellite map?

>>211659923
Weather radars, evidences, the damage and satellite pictures.

>>211659998
Not really. I think people put it all by themselves. It's a project of the local uni in my city.
That's why it works crappy probably.

>>211660005
>>211659862
I was about to say "that's a lot of tornadoes for such a small region" but man, that region is anything but small

>>211660089
It's like x2.5 of your country by area.

>>211660128
what happens there

>>211660175
Tornadoes... from time to time.

>>211660217
There was one a couple of days ago btw.

No but I look on street view before and after of places that were hit by severe tornadoes, it's wild how it's just empty fields for years after.

>>211660217
the idea that no matter which direction you look from this spot, the sea is more than 1000km away, is somehow deeply unsettling to me now that I ponder it

>>211660458
American tornadoes are kino.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0WcgDPgYIA
We've had one F4 in Russia. Maybe more than one, but these others big ones happened when these scales haven't existed. Last year we've had one F3.
>>211660553
Well, I was born here, so I can't really get it. The unsettling thing to me is to see some regions of Russia with not much water around aside some little swamps and tiny rivers. It feels kinda suffocating.
Also the closest sea to me by a direct line is in ~1100 km. And it's basically the Arctic ocean.

>>211660684
>And it's basically the Arctic ocean.
yeah I was poking around with the measure distance tool and saw that.
> The unsettling thing to me is to see some regions of Russia with not much water around aside some little swamps and tiny rivers. It feels kinda suffocating.
This region feels like that zoomer liminal spaces backrooms horror stuff to me because it looks like our countryside, more or less, but it just stretches on forever and ever and ever and ever

here if you drive for a couple hours you run into the sea or a border. the countryside always ends. but not there. it just goes on. it should end, according to my intuition but... it doesn't.

>>211660788
>but it just stretches on forever and ever and ever and ever
Welcome to Russia, kek.

>>211659231
>It's a tornado active part of the regio
Why? What causes them to happen in that particular area?
>>211658088 (OP)
I have seen some whirlwinds irl, they are pretty small here. I got hit by one once, pelted stones and sticks at me.

>>211660788
Also at least it's not completely flat. Some regions are like that and completely flat. We have something to see at least...
Here's some compilation that won some award for short vids about tourism in the region. Recompilation of different places in the region https://www.youtube.com/shorts/270LozQAaM0
>>211661023
>Why? What causes them to happen in that particular area?
I think it's the place where meteofronts cold north one and warm south one clash quite often. We get heatwaves from Kazakhstan quite often. It was +28C today and +34C yesterday.

>>211661023
Do you have water whirls?
Here's one from my region too, not far from the main city. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2wr0FjRmEnU They're not harmful and beautiful.

>>211660684
https://youtu.be/z1xohLi45r4?si=GYF860SH-9x95NxM&t=704
Do they normally happen in uninhabited areas in Russia?

>>211661254
We do, but I grew up half an hour away from the sea and now I live very far inland, I have never seen one

>>211661477
Most of them, yes. But it's just because our country is vast. But F4, F3 happened in quite inhabited area. Both around Moscow area.
I guess maybe there were more F4 and F3 ones, but the scale measures the damage dealt firstly. So if it destroyed some forest, you cannot tell much of how powerful it was.

>>211661555
>and now I live very far inland
Well, you have tons of lakes.

>>211661568
You guys need a Pecos Hank of your own it sounds like, driving around the middle of nowhere hoping to get some insane footage of a monster Tornado.

>>211662015
Nah, there is still no way that tornadoes happen as often as in the USA. And also the road coverage is not as great as in the US.
I also subscribed to some tg channel of guys who drive around Central Russian and Belarus, trying to catch a tornado. They weren't really successful, managing to film like 1-2 times from quite afar last year.

>>211662015
This is our Pecos
https://www.youtube.com/@tornadoinitalia/videos

>>211662131
>I also subscribed to some tg channel
The pic of one of their "teams".

>>211662469
I'll post some photos they took.

>>211662469
this looks like peak chud comfy fun, why are you mad

>>211662515
I'm not mad. I wish them all good and luck to capture and film a great tornado.

>>211662551
>>211662469
I've seen a bunch of these half-formed tornadoes but they never come through

>>211662630
Yeah, I've also seen it once or twice. I wish I could see a real tornado irl.

This one is from the previous year.

This is a photo of what have became an F3 one last year.

>>211662772
One of the pics of the consequences.

And these are form the last year, but filmed by the commoners, not the hunters.
This one is from Chelyabinsk oblast.

Also Chelyabinsk oblast.

Bashkiria.

>>211662677
apparently we get small tornadoes often enough that there's people actually documenting them, now that cameras are common

when I was a kid I used to think it was just old wives' tales when my grandma would talk about tornadoes coming about in the summer and ripping people's sheds apart or killing cows or something
https://weatherfoto.wordpress.com/virpulviesuli-tornado-latvija/

Sverdlovsk oblast.

>>211662131
I can't think of any channels but some people here chase big thunderstorms in case they turn into something else, just have to be in the right place at the right time. You don't see all the times Pecos spent 40+ hours driving and getting jack shit.

>>211662394
Neat, I'll check it out.

>>211662630
The last big storm we had at my old house a massive supercell came across the state and started lowering and rotating on the lake just down the street, I legit thought a tornado was going to touch down when the wind picked up but we ended up only with lightning and hail.

>>211663074
Your neighbours had one recently. And I think they happen in your country more often than you think.
https://litter.catbox.moe/rrfjdt.mp4

>>211663314
The link is the video is from Lithuania.

Tornado in Yaroslavl oblast 8th of June 2025.

Also checked the numbers. Google says that the average amount of tornadoes in Russia is up to 300 per year. For the US this number is 1200.

>>211663919
I suspect there might be a difference in detection rates.

>>211663950
Nah, I don't think that there are much more in Russia. The US have like perfect conditions for tornadoes to occur.