More than 150 people have been reported injured and several villages have suffered severe damage as an F3 or F4 category tornado touched down in the countryside in Moravia, along the Czech-Slovak border.
A video circulating on social media captured the spout touching down somewhere between Breclav and Hodonin, in southeast Czechia.
The aftermath of the tornado was also captured on camera. Here is the village of Luzice, with some 3,000 inhabitants.
The mayor of Hrušky, which has a population of 1,500, says half the village was “destroyed.”
Authorities have estimated the number of injuries between 100 and 150 people, but reports of injuries and damage are still coming in.
One Czech TV station said the tornado may have been a F3 or F4 on the Fujita scale, rated at “significant” to “severe” damage.
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