Just reported on 5 live. No specifics but 4 diff reports phoned in..


brian
aberfeldy

Brian Blair wrote:
Just reported on 5 live. No specifics but 4 diff reports phoned in..


brian
aberfeldy



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7010172.stm

Brian Blair wrote:
Just reported on 5 live. No specifics but 4 diff reports phoned in..

Several reported, but just "mini" ones, apparently. ;-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7010172.stm
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Brian Blair wrote:
Just reported on 5 live. No specifics but 4 diff reports phoned in..


brian
aberfeldy



BBC: now mentioned in Breaking News. Likely this has made BBC News 24 by
now - suspect lots of pundits talking about living in the globally
warmed hell that is Britain and we didn't get freak mini tornados 30
years ago when we were all going to freeze to death

No mention of MTs on the Daily Mail Website:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...n_page_id=1770

TORRO have a tornado watch valid today but this will be the CF passage...

http://www.torro.org.uk/torro/forecast/index.php

Satellite imagery shows quite a pronounced dry slot on the back of that
CF - the first anafront of the autumn??

Les

On 24 Sep, 10:57, Les Crossan
venthisk wrote:

TORRO have a tornado watch valid today but this will be the CF passage...

http://www.torro.org.uk/torro/forecast/index.php

Satellite imagery shows quite a pronounced dry slot on the back of that
CF - the first anafront of the autumn??

Yes exactly. These sort of ana cold fronts can spawn tornadoes along
their length (and it was quite an active long cold front), so the BBC
News article doesn't come as a surprise.

The long lost Dave Reynolds (formerly/still?) of TORRO I recall was
writing something on the 24th October 1995 cold front that had several
tornadoes along it.

Cheers
Richard

On 24 Sep, 10:26, "Brian Blair" wrote:
Just reported on 5 live. No specifics but 4 diff reports phoned in..

brian
aberfeldy

Met Office quote they have 4 reports, Nuneaton, West Midlands,
Warwickshire, and Northants.

Ian,

Raunds, East Northants.

Has it been windy today ;-) That would explain why my flight back in to
Luton tonight seemed to wobble and land on one wheel. Not much change from
the force 9 on mini cruise (is mini cruise ok?) around the Greek Islands
over the weekend. Why was that? Jannis?

Dave

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On 24 Sep, 10:26, "Brian Blair" wrote:
Just reported on 5 live. No specifics but 4 diff reports phoned in..

brian
aberfeldy

Met Office quote they have 4 reports, Nuneaton, West Midlands,
Warwickshire, and Northants.

Ian,

Raunds, East Northants.

Brian Blair wrote:
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brian
aberfeldy


Tornado in Luton and Bedford, substantial improvements reported!

Tornado in Luton and Bedford,damage estimated at 50p.

Sorry couldn't resist it, thankfully no serious injuries.

"Brian Blair" wrote :

Just reported on 5 live. No specifics but 4 diff reports phoned in..

I have installed an AWS in Luton, a km or so from my long-standing
manual station, in order to provide a long overlap before it finally has
to go. As luck would have it, it's just 350m from the site of the alleged
tornado sighting. I had a poke around the area this morning, and found
no damage visible from the street around Black Swan Lane where the
reports came from. There was no damage in the vicinity of the AWS
either, but the data showed it to be a pretty impressive ana cold front.
My inclination is to ascribe the damage to straight-line winds, until and
unless evidence on-site demonstrates otherwise. The damage area,
as far as I can ascertain is, at a maximum, 5m x 30m, and probably
a good bit less than that.
I've uploaded graphs from the AWS he
www.climate-uk.com/070924.htm
The anemometer is only 2m above ground-level but it's reasonably
well exposed to the south and west.

Philip