List of European tornadoes in 2025


The 2025 European tornado season consisted of tornadoes and tornado outbreaks across Europe and surrounding areas.
  • Note: Some tornadoes have been rated using different scales. They are counted as their closest IF-Scale equivalent on this table.
  • Note: 9 tornadoes have been confirmed but have not been rated yet.
Many different meteorological organizations across Europe document tornado events, often using different tornado intensity scales, including the TORRO (T) scale, the Fujita (F) scale, the Enhanced Fujita (EF) scale, and the International Fujita (IF) scale. For consistency, this list primarily uses the IF-scale, the preferred scale of the European Severe Storms Laboratory and its database, the European Severe Weather Database.

Climatology

Despite their similar areas, Europe sees significantly fewer tornadoes than the United States. Geography plays a major role in this discrepancy, with the unique features in North America making areas like Tornado Alley ideal for severe weather, while many of these conditions are generally less optimal in Europe. However, the under-reporting of weaker tornadoes across the continent also contributes to this. This under-reporting primarily stems from a lack of pan-European collaboration in monitoring tornadoes, resulting in less public and institutional awareness of them or their danger or the real threat they pose, despite many occurrences of violent, damaging, and deadly tornadoes across the continent.
Tornado activity in Europe typically peaks in the summer months and is lowest during the winter months. More specifically, Central and Northern Europe peak in the summer, the western and central Mediterranean regions peak in autumn, and the eastern Mediterranean region peaks in the winter. Tornadoes over land most often occur in the late afternoon and early evening hours. On the other hand, waterspouts, which sometimes move ashore in coastal areas and become tornadoes, peak in late spring and typically occur earlier in the day.

Season summary

  • Note: Unrated tornadoes are counted as IFU on the graphs
The month of January was unusually active in 2025, seeing five IF2 tornadoes in the month, including one in the United Kingdom that injured one person. These were all associated with European windstorms, which peak in intensity in the winter months, creating favourable conditions for severe weather such as tornadoes. February was less active, although one IF2 tornado touched down in Spain. Two more windstorms struck the Iberian coast in March, spawning several tornadoes in Spain.
Early April was very active, with storms in Turkey and Greece spawning seven tornadoes from 1–2 April, including an IF2 tornado in Turkey and an IF1 tornado that went through Rhodes. Just two days later, another windstorm spawned three tornadoes in southern Spain, including one that injured four workers and an IF2 tornado that killed three. Activity remained relatively low for the remainder of the month, although one strong tornado touched down in Hungary.
May also began with a tornado outbreak, this time across Western and Eastern Europe. In all, 11 tornadoes touched down across five countries from 2–4 May, including one in Portugal that resulted in one injury. On 22 May, five tornadoes touched down across the Po Valley in Italy. Another small outbreak occurred across Central Europe late in the month.
June favored more isolated tornado events, including one IF2 tornado in France and Germany each early in the month. Some touched down in unlikely places, namely the IF2 tornado that touched down in Norway and the IF1.5 tornado that injured five in Armenia. However, there were some smaller tornado outbreaks, including ones in Russia, Estonia and Sweden near the end of the month.

March

  • Note: Multiple tornadoes have been rated using the EF-Scale. They are counted as their closest IF-Scale equivalent on this table.

20 March event

April

18 April event

May

10 May event

23 May event

June

  • Note: Two tornadoes have been confirmed but have not been rated yet.

10 June event

24 June event

July

  • Note: One tornado has been confirmed but has not been rated yet

13 July event

23 July event

August

  • Note: Four tornadoes have been confirmed but has not been rated yet.

16 August event

September

  • Note: One tornado has been confirmed but has not been rated yet.

9 September event

23 September event

October

  • Note: One tornado has been confirmed but is not yet rated.

20 October event

November