Author Name: Carribean Channel, Cuba TV.
This story was originally published on canalcaribe.ict.cu. [1]

Scientists provide new elements of Tornado in Havana
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Several months of research provide new elements related to the tornado that hit several municipalities in Havana. The study was conducted by specialists from the Institute of Meteorology, the Cmaguey Meteorological Center, the Higher Institute of Technologies and Applied Sciences, and the Fernando Ortiz Foundation.

The scientists first determined and established the conditions that day at different levels of the atmosphere. The information provided by the maps, satellite images, meteorological radar observations, surface measurements and numerical models used was analyzed and processed.

The data provided by the Casablanca automatic weather station were also very useful.

All this work well coordinated and validated by the Scientific Council of the Institute of Meteorology, said that the origin of the natural phenomenon and its remarkable intensification, was due to the simultaneous interaction of exceptional meteorological situations at different atmospheric scales.

Several factors influenced the appearance of the tornado

There was an extended trough from central Canada, which deepened on the southeast of the Gulf of Mexico, favored the emergence of an extratropical low to the north and near the Yucatan Peninsula, which in its movement to the northeast northeast generated the formation of a cold front.

To this was added an active line of thunderstorms that crossed over the provinces of Pinar del Río, Artemisa, Havana and Mayabeque during the late afternoon and early hours of the night, producing severe local storms with winds in their wake. gusts of more than 100 kilometers per hour.

As a curious fact, it was confirmed that unlike initially estimated, the tornado seems to have had its point of origin on land.

In Cuba, tornadoes usually have between 10 and 15 minutes of life, and only rarely do they travel more than THREE kilometers in their displacement. Given this unusual phenomenon that occurred in January of this year, and although they are difficult to predict in advance, it is necessary to be alert about the existence of factors favorable to the occurrence of severe weather in a certain area, including the potential formation of tornadoes.

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