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