In the middle of the night a tornado came in from the sea and crossed the eastern suburbs of Limassol, especially Germasogeia. It toppled a construction crane, snapped power poles and trees and damaged about two hundred homes and flats.
▶ Open on the mapExperts rated it IF1.5 on the new International Fujita scale used in Europe.
Cyprus usually only sees waterspouts over the sea, so a tornado moving through a city was very unusual.