A 1912 tornado disaster and French war readiness

What would happen if a tornado outbreak on the scale of the 2011 Missouri super outbreak hit France in 1912?

France would probably turn inward for recovery. Its war readiness could decline, although disaster relief might also mobilise troops before a German attack.

The counterfactual assumes a 2011 Missouri-scale tornado outbreak reaches France in 1912 and possibly affects other parts of Europe. France would turn inward toward relief and reconstruction, leaving it distracted before the First World War. The same emergency might already have mobilised large parts of the armed forces for disaster work, creating a competing effect on readiness. Germany's Schlieffen Plan remains the fixed strategic problem because its route through Belgium does not depend on France recovering first. The panel speculates about a route through southern France and Bordeaux that skirts the Alps, and about Irish high ground and the Pyrenees disrupting the weather system; these geographical claims remain speculative.