Tornado between Modena and Bologna — 3 May 2013Photo: MeteoWeb (video publisher) · Source. Still image; WebP conversion.- Location
- Castelfranco Emilia, Argelato / San Giorgio di Piano, and the Mirandola area
- Peak reported rating
- F3 Peak category in ARPA summary; multiple tornadoes
- Local time · 3 May 2013
- Afternoon, CEST (UTC+2); multiple tornadoes
- UTC
- Radar window: 12:00–16:30 UTC
- Time on the ground
- Multiple tornadoes; no single ground duration
- Track length
- Several separate tracks; not combined into one path
- Maximum width
- Varied between the separate tornadoes
- Survey wind estimate
- ARPA describes F2–F3 tornadoes; no direct wind measurement shown
Event & radar context
This is an outbreak overview, covering separate tornadoes produced by two supercells. The heading uses the maximum F3 category in the ARPA summary. Contemporary preliminary analyses used EF-scale estimates, which are not treated as final surveyed ratings here. The timeline follows observed regional rain rate and does not imply that one tornado remained on the ground for the full sequence.
Interpreting the rating
F, EF and IF are different damage-rating scales. Original source labels are preserved. Badge colours group the numerical categories for browsing; they do not imply identical wind thresholds. Radar products do not directly establish the damage rating.
Event facts: ARPAE-SIMC event summary ↗