Tornado in Birmingham

[Chris Plumb]

Newt:

MJB - I think the UK has more per square mile or something rather than more total twisters. May be wrong but that factoid sticks in my mind from somewhere.

Correctomundo!!!

 

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/conten...?recordid=47481

 

 

C.

[Jim Gibbinson]

About seven or eight years ago, I encountered a mini-tornado in Kent. I was fishing a local gravel pit (bright, sunny day - no wind to speak of) when a mini-twister came roaring towards me from the direction of an adjacent road. As it moved across the lake it became a classic water-spout, about double-decker bus height. Presumably it had insufficient energy to sustain its momentum when it sucked-up the water because it collapsed and died when it struck the bank about 15 metres from me. It left the whole lake rocking. Had it struck land where I was fishing, I don't think it had sufficient power to have injured me, but I strongly suspect it would have scattered my fishing gear all over the place. It happened so quickly that I was left bemused rather than frightened.

[Tony U]

I saw a Tornado when I was Mullet fishing on Sun Pier Chatham a few years ago, it moved up the river towards the Dockyard for a few hundred yards and then disappeared. The strange thing was it was flat calm with no wind around the pier, but on the opposite bank by the Medway City Industrial Estate we could see the wind hurling litter and other detritus in to the air.

 

Also a great many years ago I was fishing Hainault Lake, over in Essex and an angler was blown in to the lake along with his seat box and platform, yet all around him no-one even felt the wind.

 

On both occasions the weather was humid, heavy with thunderstorms, which resulted in these very local unstable conditions.

Tony

 

[ 29. July 2005, 11:49 AM: Message edited by: Tony U ]

[Alan Taylor]

? I did read that 2 people have died in tornados in the last 12 months, one at CORFE (castle?) Dorset last October, I used to live there and was wondering if anyone could fill in some details or post a link for me please. Just curious so no big deal.

The other death was in Lancashire on New Year's day.

 

Cheers

 

Alan

[Scapanapper]

I've just seen the TV news about the Birmingham Tornado. They are saying it has caused millions of pounds worth of improvements

[ayjay]

Killer tornado - - read awl abaht it

[spasor]

Isn`t life strange. One day the police arrest a bomber in Brum. Then Allah sends them a tornado as a warning!!

[bluezulu]

strange that it hit a mainly asian area! spooky!!

[Alan Taylor]

ayjay:

Killer tornado - - read awl abaht it

Thanks ayjay, terrible thing to happen

[Alan Taylor]

Scapanapper:

They are saying it has caused millions of pounds worth of improvements