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Hi everyone,
I was speaking to a co-worker who lives in bexhill ( 2- 3 miles east of hastings). They watched the storm roll in from the sea and described it loooking like a "vertical column of water" another co worker who lives in winchelsea ( 5 miles west of hastings) showed me their car today the hailstones had dented all the top facing fanels and broken the plastic rear light lenses!.
An amazing storm and a fantastic experience that must rank alongside the '87 hurricane. water spouts and funnel clouds are not an uncommon sight along the english channel but a full blown tornado and supercell thunderstorm - fantastic never to be forgotten experience. As tamara so correctly observed the masssive black wall of cloud approaching at rapid speed accompanied by strobe lightning and massive booms of thunder was awesome. I have attached some pics of the tree damage from outside my house the noise at this point was so intense i did not hear this happen!, incidently the tree debris is on the north facing side and the trunk was 50 - 70 mm in diameter fortunately no other trees in the street were damaged.
regards
Nigel
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1st pictures coming through from the Tornado in East Sussex and Golfball Hailstones
Paul Sherman
Pretty conclusive Tornado Damage there!!
Hi Everyone,
fantastic storm, best i have ever seen, I live in st leonards near hastings ( about a 1/2 mile from the pier ) the tree outside our house had the top wrenched out of it, This coincided with some visible rotation and swirling in the clouds just as the squall front passed over and just preceding the hail, approx 12mm diameter and lightning strike 25 M away.
regards
Nigel
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Saw this fantastic Mammatus display over bexhill east sussex approx 16.40 today - some rain but no lightning - unfortunatly i was at work and only had my mobile with me - photo does not do this justice - nice to see though!
Anyone else see this?
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Very heavy rain
One very bright flash of lighting in hastings area
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Sky becoming very dark over hastings - expect some storm activity very soon - very little wind / cloud movement - looks like storm is developing overhead and to the south
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Thunder heard at 04:30 - just a few rumbles and steady rain - air still very humid and heavy - sky looks like the real storm has yet to arrive.
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01:00 hours very heavy rain and frequent lightning for 10 - 15 mins one very bright flash and cannon like thunder at 01:10 suspect +ve CG.
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Just watching impressive cumulonimbus over the english channel just off Hastings. Nice anvil plenty of lightning.
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lightning detector showing activity from 2300 hrs
distant thunder heard at midnight coming from the south
betweeen 0030 and 0200 regular lightning one flash every minute or so
rain not partcularly heavy but constant and persistant - Air very humid and misty
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Lightning detector showing activity since 0600 hrs sky dark to the south very distant thunder heard, too distant to see any lightning. Sun shine now hazy.
Storm has not moved nearer since first thunder heard at 0600.
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very black sky and thunderstorm here at 15-30 hrs loud thunder and CG and CC lightning. very large hailstones and torrential rain.
Nice cloud formations - see photo
Been raining steadily ever since
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very black sky and thunderstorm here at 15-30 hrs loud thunder and CG and CC lightning. very large hailstones and torrential rain.
Nice cloud formations - see photo
Been raining steadily ever since
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Lightning seen in distance at 23:00 last night to south east, no thunder lightning detector active until after midnight. showers during the night. sky looks like today might be interesting. See attached photo............ :unsure:
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lightning detector showing activity - faint thunder heard in the distance :unsure:
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saw this small funnel cloud from sprunehorpe only present for 5 mins then dissipated - 20mins later torrential downpour - only had my phone with me so poor image quality was more defined the ragged bottom vanished and it become more pointed before dissipating within 60 seconds. sky very turbulent and dark.