"A Welsh village has been hit by a mini tornado. The severe weather has made it's way across Bow Street, near Aberystwyth, in the early hours of this morning. Over twenty homes and businesses have been badly damaged. No-one has been injured."
That bit above is exactly how Real Radio have it on their site since that's where I went to try and get some more info. I heard the news reporter say it on the radio this morning when I got up (radio is on 24 hours a day in the bedroom, yes, even if we aren't home). Not sure how far away from us Aberystwyth is but I know it's not all that far away since I'm pretty sure that's where my Dad used to go once a week for one of his AD&D games.
And this next bit I got from BT's news page...
"Emergency services were called to Bow Street in Aberystwyth, West Wales, shortly after 2am.
A spokesman for Dyfed Powys Police said: "It was apparent that what is believed to be a tornado had struck parts of the village. Commercial and residential premises, vehicles and caravans were damaged." He added that nobody was thought to have been injured.
Earlier, weather experts had put parts of Britain on tornado alert.
The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (Torro) issued a warning at 12.55am of isolated severe thunderstorms or weak tornadoes over the next few days - known as a convective discussion.
The warning, published on Torro's website, applies to parts of south-west England, East Wales, south Wales and much of southern, central and eastern England.
It said: "The highest tornado risk would appear to be along and close to the south coast."
Torro, which is based in Oxford, issues three levels of warning of severe weather - convective outlook, convective discussion, and severe thunderstorm and tornado watches.
It stopped short of issuing the highest level of alert - a convective outlook - because it deemed the likelihood of severe, widespread thunderstorms was "rather marginal".
Rachel Vince, forecaster at the MeteoGroup UK, said: "We have had reports of a tornado near Portsmouth on Saturday. The main concern is general wind and heavy rain through the next 24 to 48 hours.""
Tori
That bit above is exactly how Real Radio have it on their site since that's where I went to try and get some more info. I heard the news reporter say it on the radio this morning when I got up (radio is on 24 hours a day in the bedroom, yes, even if we aren't home). Not sure how far away from us Aberystwyth is but I know it's not all that far away since I'm pretty sure that's where my Dad used to go once a week for one of his AD&D games.
And this next bit I got from BT's news page...
"Emergency services were called to Bow Street in Aberystwyth, West Wales, shortly after 2am.
A spokesman for Dyfed Powys Police said: "It was apparent that what is believed to be a tornado had struck parts of the village. Commercial and residential premises, vehicles and caravans were damaged." He added that nobody was thought to have been injured.
Earlier, weather experts had put parts of Britain on tornado alert.
The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (Torro) issued a warning at 12.55am of isolated severe thunderstorms or weak tornadoes over the next few days - known as a convective discussion.
The warning, published on Torro's website, applies to parts of south-west England, East Wales, south Wales and much of southern, central and eastern England.
It said: "The highest tornado risk would appear to be along and close to the south coast."
Torro, which is based in Oxford, issues three levels of warning of severe weather - convective outlook, convective discussion, and severe thunderstorm and tornado watches.
It stopped short of issuing the highest level of alert - a convective outlook - because it deemed the likelihood of severe, widespread thunderstorms was "rather marginal".
Rachel Vince, forecaster at the MeteoGroup UK, said: "We have had reports of a tornado near Portsmouth on Saturday. The main concern is general wind and heavy rain through the next 24 to 48 hours.""
Tori
2 comments:
hey is that when your power shut off because of the thunderstorms?
No, but there was an small tornado in hampshire about when that storm happened.
And apparently all the thunderstorms we had over the weekend were the reason for us having this tornado... at least, that's what the "tornado expert" on the radio said.
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