Very rare tornado near Vienna airport

[Tender Branson]

There are not more than 3 tornadoes in Austria every year, but the area surrounding Vienna is a lot like the US Plains, so they can happen there.

In 1916 though, there was a tornado south of Vienna which killed 32 people.

Yesterday, a super-cell formed during a massive hail- and thunderstorm, about 2 miles away from the Vienna Schwechat airport and was filmed by airport workers and people driving nearby:









https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWGE0Kggl_o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttu9hciaSGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpAHpJi0qFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVvZ8pAZP48

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Hide in the basement......oh, wait, no......the stench from the bodies might be too strong.

[Tender Branson]

No need to, I was 300 miles away from the tornado ...

[Hatman 🍁]

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[JA]

Damn, that's an impressing looking storm! I'm glad nobody was hurt and there was only minimal, if any, damage (right?).

[Lachi]

The question I have is why the hell is there planes flying around?!  Surely they would have closed the airport and got all of the planes down, right?

[dead0man]

The question I have is why the hell is there planes flying around?!  Surely they would have closed the airport and got all of the planes down, right?

It's much easier to fly away from them.  Tornadoes are slow, planes are fast.  You want to land a plane (the most dangerous part of flying by far) during this?  Sure, you might not want any taking off.  Unless they are already full of people and out getting ready to take off and the tornado isn't there yet (or it's not heading that way) and the direction the plane is going is not the direction of the tornado, sure, why not?