[Bren J]

Hi folks

'The News' in Portsmouth have apparently taken calls from the public that a tornado may have been witnessed just to the north of Portsmouth. The only details thus far, is that horses were blown over.

No other details, but as this is very fresh, perhaps someone could take a look in the Portsmouth area. Hopefully there will be more info coming through soon.

Bren

[PaulKn]

Horses?

[Bren J]

Apparently so Paul (horse-spout) ;)

Laura is seeing if she can get a bit more info from the original source.

Bren

[PaulKn]

Equinado.

[Howard Kirby]

Neeiiiighdo!

[Dave W]

Probably a good idea to get this thread back on track folks.. ;)

[PaulKn]

Probably! ;) We're just waiting for some more info!

[PaulKn]

I should add that I've called Tony G and he's going to try to follow this up further this afternoon.

[Bren J]

Sorry I'm not able to get hold of any more info. Laura picked it up as it had been reported to the MO, but hasn't been able to find anything else out. It's always a good thing to get these possible events onto UKww, as within a week or so, any witnesses browing the net and hoping to find something about it may find this thread via Google etc :)

Bren

[Jane B]

There's more info on this at:
http://www.thenews.co.uk/

[jcdorset]

Wow, definitely a tornado i'd say. Quite a strong one too! (for the UK anyway) Just a few miles further west and i might have seen it.....maybe next time!

[Azazel]

just heard about this on the radio

[Lightning Hunter]

Yes, this has been on BBC Solent all day, and a 'met office spokesperson' was interviewed and he said conditions were ripe for a tornado, but didn't confirm it was one.

[Tiama]

http://news.sky.com/...2,00.html?f=rss

story released 27 11 06. regarding event on saturday

http://www.thenews.c...ticleID=1899444

[alan.w]

Its on south today (ITV1) at 6pm they just showed a clip

Alan

[alan.w]

The twister in Boarhunt, Hampshire stills from ITV local news

[Chris Alder]

Looked reasonabley strong from the images I saw on ITV maybe T3/4???

[Tony Gilbert]

Site Investigation North Boarhunt, Hampshire Mon 27th Nov 06

I met up with the press Bureau and Local Evening News. My finding were supplied for an additional column tomorrow and for national papers. Reference will be made to TORRO.

A T2-3 tornado Occurred at 1040 GMT 25th November 2006.

Track orientation was north east

Track length approx 800m

Track width max 75m

Debris distribution confirms cyclonic rotation.

Damage included, stationary lorry overturned, wide spread roof damage, brick garage shifted off foundation by two inches, garden walls down and several trees uprooted. Cost estimated into hundreds of thousands of pounds. I found some debris carried over 300m including a large section of garage roof. Roof tiles missing  sucked from down wind side of the roof apex. (typical of weak to moderate tornado damage).

Eyewitness report confirms tornado with broad rotation viewed and horses seen to fly around the field. The horses remain pretty agitated as can be expected. Condensation was seen to rotate up to a height of 60ft or so with classic funnel shape at centre. Loud audible whistling noise noted.  Hail shower after event and brief but powerful thunder just before. Residence at the scene were very helpful despite all suffering damage of some sort.

Synoptic chart shows triple point having moved through location of event around the same time!

[Chris Alder]

Thanks for that Tony, confirms what I suspect many were thinking!