5 Aug, 2024 @ 10:51
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Watch: ‘Supercell’ tornado tears through Spain following week of extreme weather

THIS is the moment a ‘supercell’ tornado tore through eastern Spain over the weekend.

Video shared online shows the weather phenomenon passing through Castellon, in the small town of El Toro.

READ MORE: This Malaga town was the hottest in Spain during Thursday’s heatwave

Mayor Jose Arenes said the tornado ‘surprised us all’, but assured it had caused ‘no major damage’.

The supercell tornado followed a week of extreme weather across Spain, with hail storms in the north and east of the country and a heatwave in the south bringing highs over 44C.

A supercell tornado is caused by intense thunderstorms with a rotating updraft.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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