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Tornado! 21st May 1950

#1 User is online   summer '85 

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21st May 1950

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/21/newsid_2966000/2966457.stm

 500 and 850 pha charts for that day

http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1950/Rrea00119500521.gif
http://www.wetterzentrale.de/archive/ra/1950/Rrea00219500521.gif


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#2 User is offline   Chris Alder 

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Sounds pretty strong to be dumping Cars, Cattle and Horse in adjacent feilds, thanks for the link Kevin.
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Very similar in scale to the B'ham event last year, which was described as a 1 in 50 year event in terms of intensity for UK.

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Yes, Mark, but it had a much longer track (the longest on record in the UK?... some accounts have it dissipating only as it passed over the north Norfolk coast). Fortunately unlike the Brum tornado it did not strike any major centres of population.

Interesting from the BBC story that in those days Bucks/Beds were seen as being 'around London' - things must have revolved (no pun intended) around the capital even more then than they do today.
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#5 User is offline   Si Taylor 

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I love this line in the story "It took less than an hour to travel from one end of the village to the other".  That was one slow moving Tornado or possibly the largest village on the planet?
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#6 User is offline   StephenS 

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Si, that comment is frequently quoted in reports of this tornado. I wonder if it was more to do with the thick news reporter than the person who witnessed the event. It was almost certainly the only tornado in the village ;)
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From the 22nd of May 1950 edition of the Times




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Any idea what the Fujita rating would be off this tornado? 
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summer '85 - 1/5/2008 14:36 Any idea what the Fujita rating would be off this tornado? 

As a sensible estimate a T4 or low EF2, similar to the Brum event. With long track, is likelt to have been a Triple Point Tornado.

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A photo of the tornado near Halton RAF station.

There is an excellent analysis of the tornado by Hubert Lamb in the Meteorological Magazine of 1950

Track of tornado

Some data for the experts to pick over


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60 years ago today
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