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