“I do not agree that it was a tornado.
The tornado has large dimensions and great destructive power, "Vechernyaya Moskva quotes Pozdnyakova.
She noted that such vortices occur under a cumulus cloud above the heated surface of the earth.
According to her, such pillars of dust usually form in the fields or on the outskirts.
The head of the press service of the city district, Oksana Posazhennikova, noted in an interview with Radio 1 that no calls have been received with messages about victims and destruction.
Earlier, the Moscow authorities called on Muscovites to be careful on the street because of the predicted bad weather.