Overview
- Authorities confirm one fatality, identified by prosecutors as a 23-year-old construction worker, and report several injuries with multiple people seriously hurt.
- The twister hit around 17:45 local time on Monday across roughly ten communes in Val-d’Oise, with Ermont sustaining the heaviest damage.
- Multiple construction cranes toppled, roofs were stripped, trees were uprooted, and power and roads were disrupted as firefighters and civil protection units worked through the night.
- Germany’s national weather service (DWD) preliminarily rates the tornado IF2 on the International Fujita scale, consistent with estimated winds near 220 km/h.
- Forecasters say a deep low over southern England drove a clash of warm, moist southern air with colder northwesterly air and strong wind shear, a setup some outlets describe as producing France’s most severe wind episode in 17 years.