Significant Tornado Hits North West London!!

[crimsone]

Another great anti-hype article about the British weather as a result of the tornado... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2497597,00.html

Edit:... It appears that Channel Four News showed some brief footage of the tornado captured on a mobile phone. It's dissapointing if you're looking for something ominous, impressive, and well defined, but it's something at least :unsure: - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXCfBUuyhEk...ser&search=

Edited December 11, 2006 by crimsone

[Tim B]

I like that times online article, really tries to puts a perspective on things.

[hammerb32]

Fantastic article in the Times, very well presented, informed and balanced.

[Polar Bear]

If you look on Ukww, Paul Knightley has written a very good account on this storm via the Meteogroup.

The storm actually initiated at 0730am just into Cornwall and by 0945am has just raced past Salisbury. It then tracked East North East towards London where it went through a few perculiar motions with dry air intrusions pepping the storm up and intensifying it. And as it crossed NW10 The Tornado dropped due to differing windfields and velocities. Not a bad track for a Storm and for it to get from Salisbury to North West London in little over an hour is very impressive.

Paul Sherman

hmm and rthink the track was through hampshire ....a colleague had 105 mph recorded on his weather station...could it be?

[Noctilucid]

Just worked out that between Salisbury and London (91 Miles) The Storm Cell was travelling at 72.8 mph, Would not have kept up with that somehow.

Paul Sherman

Yes when the storm arrived here it arrived very quickly, it was only about 7 minutes between the first sighting of the cell to the first thunder.

Joe

[crimsone]

incidentally, the distance (as the crow flies) between Cornwall and London is about 250 miles. if the storm initialised in Cornwall at about 0730 and dropped a tornado in London at 1100, the average speed for the storm between the two places works out to about 71 MpH.

[Paul Sherman]

Wow now that is VERY Consistant and would tie in nicely, thanks for that Crimsone

Paul S