Although I live just outside of Warwick, I didn't see this my self
though the link below gives some excellent eye-witness accounts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/5261392.stm

Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Steve J, BWS wrote:
Although I live just outside of Warwick, I didn't see this my self
though the link below gives some excellent eye-witness accounts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/5261392.stm



incidentally as a postscript to my own post, I've suggested to the
local press that they call this a funnel cloud, but they insist that a
tornado makes a better story!



Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Steve J, BWS wrote:
Steve J, BWS wrote:
Although I live just outside of Warwick, I didn't see this my self
though the link below gives some excellent eye-witness accounts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/5261392.stm



incidentally as a postscript to my own post, I've suggested to the
local press that they call this a funnel cloud, but they insist that a
tornado makes a better story!



I was looking out yesterday evening about 1830 BST and noticed the
chaotic nature of the sky, with shelf cloud-like appearance and some
lowering, rapidly forming and dissipating scud, but no rotation
(although I nearly convinced myself that I saw the smooth outlines of a
funnel at one time). It seemed that the moving radar echoes met in
central Warwickshire as showers coming from the SE converged with
showers from the SW, and at one time there were three or four separate
cells around Kenilworth.

Despite being nearly 60 and a trained weather observer, I have yet to
see a funnel cloud, let alone a tornado, though I have seen the damage
they cause in the American Mid West and have been in an area when a
tornado watch was in effect.

Martin


Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk

Steve J, BWS wrote:
Steve J, BWS wrote:

Although I live just outside of Warwick, I didn't see this my self
though the link below gives some excellent eye-witness accounts.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/c...re/5261392.stm




incidentally as a postscript to my own post, I've suggested to the
local press that they call this a funnel cloud, but they insist that a
tornado makes a better story!



Steve Jackson
Bablake Weather Station
Coventry UK
www.bablakeweather.co.uk


You know the press, don;t let the truth get in front of a good story.

Joe
Wolverhampton

Also Lincolnshire
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/5261198.stm

Colin Youngs
Brussels

You know the press, don;t let the truth get in front of a good story.

Yes. And now we don't just have freak tornadoes. We also have "freak
thunderstorms in the area."!!! Arrrggghhh!!

Would be very surprised looking at things today if we don't get more
tornado reports today.

Simon

Colin Youngs wrote from far away:

Brussels

Please be aware that around here, the BBC is a dirty thingumy (sounds
like a word but is actually a combination of several?)

JPG wrote:


Despite being nearly 60 and a trained weather observer, I have yet to
see a funnel cloud, let alone a tornado, though I have seen the damage
they cause in the American Mid West and have been in an area when a
tornado watch was in effect.


I've been more lucky, probably through living and working in England's
"Tornado Alley" when I was younger. It was about fifty years ago, in
Rushden, when I first saw a tornado. It was a large one, several miles
away, moving slowly NE across N Bedfordshire farmland. On one day in August
1963 or '64 I saw many funnel clouds at RAE Bedford, as many as five
visible at any one time. I moved away from the area in '65 and have seen
little of significance since.

--
Graham Davis
Bracknell