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Óbuda tornado

6 June 2023 · Budapest, Hungary · ? Intensity unknown

On a June evening a slim tornado spun up over Óbuda, a district of Budapest. Thousands of people in the capital watched and filmed the funnel reaching down from the storm cloud, and no serious damage was reported.

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It was a non-mesocyclonic tornado, the kind that grows from the ground up under a fast-rising storm cloud rather than from a rotating supercell.

Tornadoes are rare over big cities, so this one became one of Hungary's most-filmed weather events.

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