Urgent | Rare documentation of a giant tornado that formed a little while ago east of Hail.. Watch the video

Written By سنان خلف on 2022/01/02

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Weather of Arabia - The lens of weather amateurs in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia monitored this morning, Sunday 2/1/2022, specifically to the east of Hail, the formation of a huge tornado at the bottom of one of the strong cumulus thunderclouds, which resulted from the unstable weather conditions affecting the region.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Fortunately, the tornado formed in an empty desert area away from villages and buildings, and therefore it did not cause any significant damage, thank God.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Such tornadoes are formed during strong instability, require active uplift currents and a difference in wind speed and movement in the perpendicular layers of the atmosphere.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> A tornado northeast of Hail this morning <a href="https://t.co/lB64WxMOUx">pic.twitter.com/lB64WxMOUx</a></p> - Lightning Al-Yar (@naser__2013) <a href="https://twitter.com/naser__2013/status/1477608814484537344?ref_src=twsrc... 2, 2022</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><p lang="ar" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Today, Sunday, northeast of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%AD%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%84?src=hash&amp;ref_sr..., a</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/%D8%A7%D8%B9%D8%B5%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%82%D9%85%... /><br /> Rolling <a href="https://t.co/jY7uiBcDTV">pic.twitter.com/jY7uiBcDTV</a></p> — Thamer Al-Otaibi (@jmran1418) <a href="https://twitter.com/jmran1418/status/1477605736716845056?ref_src=twsrc%5... 2, 2022</a> </blockquote><script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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