[Sam Jowett]

Perhaps "we got cows" isn't so far fetched after all then! :O

[Chris Alder]

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Sam Jowett - 27/11/2006 19:58 Perhaps "we got cows" isn't so far fetched after all then! :O

[lol] [lol]  

[Tony Gilbert]

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Sam Jowett - 27/11/2006 18:58 Perhaps "we got cows" isn't so far fetched after all then! :O

Yep Sam, the guy said he couldn't believe his eyes as they were tossed around in the air like rag dolls. He says it was the most frightening thing he had every experienced as the tornado forced the truck forward up the lane even with the brakes full on. The tornado was just to his right but the outer circulating winds were still extremely powerful!

[Lightning Hunter]

Very interesting, thanks Tony. I saw the news too, looked substantial. Just think, an hour earlier the squall line passed right over here with thunder too, yet produced nothing. :(

[doug symonds]

Found this link
http://news.bbc.co.u...ire/6190026.stm

[PaulKn]

Good report Tony - I was analysing the charts through Saturday morning, and the small low in the Channel, which on the chart you have put up for 12Z is across the SE Mids, was causing some very marked backing of the flow across the cent-south coast region...at one point, the wind ahead of the front was south-easterly, and behind was west-northwesterly...such veering beneath 50 knot 850 hPa winds would have created a lot of low-level horizontal vorticity...that was the main reason I issued a convective discussion!

[Stuart Robinson]

http://express.lineo...il.html?sku=784

[alan.w]

That a pic from the Brighton Tornado that I haven't seen before :)

Alan [tn]  

[Tiama]

http://news.sky.com/...42274-1,00.html

Some more images as posted on Sky news web site

[Coolcirrus]

There's a half-page spread on this in this evening's (Tues) Daily Echo - seems to largely cover what has already been posted - plus a tornado risk map (didn't think I would see one of those in a UK local paper!). They've also included a diagram explaining tornado formation, which tells us that "winds at different levels of the atmosphere react on storm clouds". The article credits TORRO but gets the warning levels (conv outlook / conv discussion / severe TS & tornado watches) back to front. Apart from the inevitable small glitches it's a reasonably good article by local paper standards... good publicity for TORRO!

[stormy sam]

here is a link http://www.portsmout..._come_1_1267846
about the boar hunt tornado it was prob an F1

This post has been edited by stormy sam: 28 February 2012 - 20:18

[stormy sam]

video link might help you guys http://video.google....062317456056524

[stormy sam]

Dave Clarke, on 29 February 2012 - 01:07, said:

Welcome to the forum



In Britain we use the Torro scale to measure tornadoes based on their calculated windspeed, rather than the damage caused.



If you looks a few posts up you'll see a post from the star of that video, Tony Gilbert

thanks Dave for your help . i like to use the fujja* scale and the torro scale or a mix. oh and today i went through boarhunt to get a better pic of what damage the tornado would of done lol.