http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7540484.stm
Roofs were ripped off, trees uprooted and cars overturned. Rescuers are
still picking through the rubble in case any more residents were buried
alive.

The mini-tornado also swept through three other small towns nearby, where
the damage was not so seve Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and
Boussieres-sur-Sambre.


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On Aug 4, 2:44*pm, "N Cook" wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7540484.stm
Roofs were ripped off, trees uprooted and cars overturned. Rescuers are
still picking through the rubble in case any more residents were buried
alive.

The mini-tornado also swept through three other small towns nearby, where
the damage was not so seve Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and
Boussieres-sur-Sambre.

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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England

"mini" tornado??

On Aug 4, 3:15 pm, Dawlish wrote:
On Aug 4, 2:44 pm, "N Cook" wrote:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7540484.stm
Roofs were ripped off, trees uprooted and cars overturned. Rescuers are
still picking through the rubble in case any more residents were buried
alive.

The mini-tornado also swept through three other small towns nearby, where
the damage was not so seve Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and
Boussieres-sur-Sambre.

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General electronic repairs, most things repaired, other than TVs and PCshttp://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/repairs.htm

Diverse Devices, Southampton, England

"mini" tornado??

Sorat of liqke a twornado onrly smaaller.

Notics thatew wa a Edouard (Gulf of Mexico)
10W (South China Sea)

Swo noyr badf for anm amarnture.

"N Cook" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7540484.stm
snip
The mini-tornado also swept through three other small towns nearby,
where
the damage was not so seve Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and
Boussieres-sur-Sambre.


.... don't know if it's been corrected since your original post, but
there is no reference to 'mini' in that article: perhaps someone got
at them! Certainly nothing 'mini' from the damage description.

Martin.


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

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
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"N Cook" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7540484.stm
snip
The mini-tornado also swept through three other small towns nearby, where
the damage was not so seve Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and
Boussieres-sur-Sambre.


... don't know if it's been corrected since your original post, but there
is no reference to 'mini' in that article: perhaps someone got at them!
Certainly nothing 'mini' from the damage description.

I did hear the dreaded words 'mini-tornado' in a TV news report
earlier though.
Assuming the buildings are of similar brick construction to those
involved in the Birmingham tornado of a few years ago, it look
significantly more serious than that.
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Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

Martin Rowley wrote in message
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"N Cook" wrote in message
...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7540484.stm
snip
The mini-tornado also swept through three other small towns nearby,
where
the damage was not so seve Maubeuge, Neuf-Mesnil and
Boussieres-sur-Sambre.


... don't know if it's been corrected since your original post, but
there is no reference to 'mini' in that article: perhaps someone got
at them! Certainly nothing 'mini' from the damage description.

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



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

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"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

"Martin Rowley" wrote in message
...
"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
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This always crops up and I've tried to explain it to "ordinary" folk but
they won't have it ! I'm sorry but until they see a massive black swirling
cloud several hundreds of metres across, sweeping across East Anglia ,
reaching the sky and sucking up cattle and cars into it, accompanied by a
soundtrack of "Oh my god!" screams, it's always gonna be a "mini" tornado
to them ;-(

Dave

Dave