"N Cook" wrote...

"Three die in French mini-tornado"
earlier heading , same URL now
"North France tornado kills three"


.... yes, it looks as if someone realised just how significant this
event was: even if the damage had been less intense, the prefix 'mini'
shouldn't be used for these events: there's no such thing. It's a
hangover from the days, not so long ago, when respected meteorologists
would assert that 'tornadoes don't happen in the UK': I've met them -
they've long passed onto the great CFO in the sky; the term
'mini-tornado' was coined largely to try and use the 'T' word without
linking it to the tornadoes of the Great Plains of the US. It was
always a fudge and caused no end of trouble when you came to trying to
explain what the mechanisms, pre-cursor conditions were.

Martin.


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Martin Rowley
West Moors, East Dorset (UK): 17m (56ft) amsl
Lat: 50.82N Long: 01.88W
NGR: SU 082 023