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7 July 2001
It was about half past noon on an hot summer Saturday when a sudden, unexpected and terrible tornado hit the Brianza region, near Monza, on the north side of Milano, a densely crowded and highly-industrialized area.
Among the others, the industrial district of Concorezzo suffered major damages.
A tornado is an extremely rare event in Italy.
Later it was estimated to be of magnitude F3/F4 in the FUJITA-PEARSON tornado scale, with wind speed up to 330 Km/h.
The balance was 192 injured, fortunately nobody lost his life.
The area interested was 20 Km long, but no more than 200 meters wide.
Our company was exactly in the middle.
Luckily nobody was inside at that moment.
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