Boarhunt Tornado and Tornado in Wales

[SnowAngel]

I know totally geographically unrelated, but just found this link..............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Oa7cHnNsA&NR

Very scary!!!!

WFM

I was worried about those ponies :blink: But paper said they were ok... Daily Express had usual hysterical headlines about risk of killer tornadoes sweeping Britain today...are there any?

[tom_f123]

daily express some what overreacting :blink: tornado terror

[Rustynailer]

Judging the effects of the above tornado's, they were potentially killers, so IMO the Daily Express Possible killer tornado warning was a good call, ill'bet made to read as dramatic as possible :blink:

I would have left out the word killer :huh:

Edited November 28, 2006 by Rustynailer

[crimsone]

Judging the effects of the above tornado's, they were potentially killers, so IMO the Daily Express Possible killer tornado warning was a good call, ill'bet made to read as dramatic as possible :blink:

I would have left out the word killer :huh:

John Mason (of the tornado and storm research organisation (Torro I presume)) reckons the welsh one (Bow Street) to be T4. Judging my the damage shown on the welsh news, I'm not suprised.

Edited November 28, 2006 by crimsone

[Andy Bown]

There could have been a ball lightning event at the Aberystwyth tornado. I can't find a link to give you but this is from today's Western Daily Press....

.... Headline ; There was a fireball at my window

.... Quote ; "I was woken by a large crash and there was what looked like a huge red glowing fireball at the window about twice the size of a person's head. Then there was an enormous bang and water came pouring into the house."

[I can't believe it's not better]

Was speaking to my folks near Llandysul, west Wales, about 40miles or so south of the tornado. They had extremely heavy rain from a thunderstorm that night (Monday), which came in around double glazed windows onto the carpet. Very bad backyard flooding.

Edited November 29, 2006 by I can't believe it's not better

[Andy Bown]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/glouces...ire/6204568.stm

Report on BBC Points West at lunchtime with talk of a tornado in Tuffley (no use of 'mini' - hurrah!). They showed damage to rooves, gardens etc that included a spike embedded in a shed and had an interview with a TORRO rep who spoke of straight-line winds. Most interesting :blush: .

[Kent Snow]

From today's sun.

The North West, Scotland and Northern Ireland are expected to be worst hit by mini tornados.

..and again

A mini tornado threw garden furniture and a giant trampoline through the air at a housing estate in Tuffley, Gloucester.

Link

[Polar Bear]

oh dont...poor little things - if they had been one of mine I would have been so petrified...not to mention fear of the massive vet bills. Thank god the ground was soft...the thing is if it could lift up a pony of only 12.2 hh and shifted a lorry over 7.5 tonnes- what would it have done to a human . Everyone is lucky me thinks - especially when you look at how much glass would have been flying around too from that green house......