On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:16:06 GMT, Paul Fisher
wrote:

Hi,
This is my first post to this group so apologies if I'm not following
any protocols...

Your posting technique is fine.


My 11-yr old niece was in school in Netherton (between Dudley and
Halesowen) when they had to dive under the desks as a funnel
cloud/tornado they were watching suddenly turned and headed for them
across the playground ! Tiles were lost from houses in Molyneux Road
(see map). The school is just to the West, in Norwich Road.
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl...8582&z=15&om=1

Here is footage taken from just a few streets away from my house
(possibly the same vortex that visited the school as it's not that far
away):
http://www.expressandstar.co.uk/2007...rnado-footage/

And here's one filmed in Tipton:
http://www.itvlocal.com/central/news..._26&void=73557

Check itvlocal.com for more vids as there's bound to be nationwide
footage, thanks to mobile phone cameras.

I try to watch every storm but this was the most intense I've seen in
all my 34 years - strikes every few seconds, a ground strike about 200
yards from where I was watching, hail, the most rainfall I've ever seen
in a given period, and a ridiculously long drive home through flooded
roads and overheating cars !

Bostin' ! (as we say in Dudley).

Very impressive videos - you are lucky to see them. Despite both
professional and amateur observing over 40 years, I have yet to see
one.

Martin