On a stormy November morning a tornado came ashore from the sea at Ladispoli, a beach town just north-west of Rome, and travelled inland for about 40 km. It tore roofs off houses and was rated F3, one of the strongest tornadoes Italy has seen in recent years.
▶ Open on the mapThe tornado formed as a waterspout over the Tyrrhenian Sea before it moved onto land.
Rome is not known for tornadoes, but the warm Mediterranean Sea in autumn can feed powerful storms along the Italian coast.