Tornadoes...

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poshbakerloo

Discussion Starter · May 8, 2007

i have read that although the United States get over 800 tornadoes average per year and Britain get 32 (i was surprised to hear it was that high), Britain has the highest amount of tornadoes per square mile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! could this be true???? although i did read that the British scale of measuring tornadoes is mush smaller starting as T1 which is just a small circular wind that only stirs up dust...

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NullVier

· #2 · May 14, 2007

Yep, in northern Germany there are small tonadoes every year aswell, esp. in the summer, but they don't really often reach the ground.

London_2006

· #3 · May 14, 2007

poshbakerloo said:
i have read that although the United States get over 800 tornadoes average per year and Britain get 32 (i was surprised to hear it was that high), Britain has the highest amount of tornadoes per square mile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! could this be true???? although i did read that the British scale of measuring tornadoes is mush smaller starting as T1 which is just a small circular wind that only stirs up dust...

We use the Torro scale, which goes from a T1 to T10. Yes, the UK does experience the most tornadoes per unit area.

Most tornadoes are T1-T4 (F0-F2 on the Fujita scale). The most powerful tornado recorded in the UK was an F4 (T8-9) in Devon in the 1950's.

poshbakerloo

Discussion Starter · #4 · May 14, 2007

CHECK THIS OUT!!!!!

near my home town of Macclesfield...never touched the ground and only lasted for a few minutes...

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London_2006

· #5 · May 14, 2007

poshbakerloo said:
near my home town of Macclesfield...never touched the ground and only lasted for a few minutes...

That's just a funnel cloud; it isn't classed as a tornado unless it touches down.

ØlandDK

· #6 · May 14, 2007

poshbakerloo said:
near my home town of Macclesfield...never touched the ground and only lasted for a few minutes...

I've seen several of those in Denmark also...looks very nice!:yes:

poshbakerloo

Discussion Starter · #7 · May 14, 2007

London_2006 said:
That's just a funnel cloud; it isn't classed as a tornado unless it touches down.

yeah well...still pritty cool

MDguy

· #8 · May 14, 2007

on the subject of tonados, this is a tornado in Nebraska USA. It's so big, it hardly looks like a tornado!

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FREKI

· #9 · May 14, 2007

Central Zealand does get a few on hot summers - but normally so weak very little damage comes from it...

CanadianCentaur

· #10 · May 14, 2007

Tornadoes and funnels aren't uncommon in the Canadian Prairies, but once in a while, there might be a bad-ass one not unlike like the one which hit Edmonton in 1987 (I wasn't in Edmonton at the time, though!). Fortunately, such nasty twisters aren't nearly as common as they'd be in the US and the Prairies are also sparsely populated as well, except for Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg.

The Edmonton tornado on July 31, 1987. Note the huge wall cloud and tornado wedge funnel. Hail the size of tennis balls and very heavy rainfall was also reported at the time.

MDguy said:
on the subject of tonados, this is a tornado in Nebraska USA. It's so big, it hardly looks like a tornado!

That is not a tornado. This was a mesocyclone, or the rotating updraft of a supercell thunderstorm. But this one did develop some small weak tornadoes and funnels at its base shortly after this pic was taken by Mike Hollingshead, a Nebraska-based storm chaser.

Check out his chase, which involved that storm.
http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-6-13.htm

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poshbakerloo

Discussion Starter · #11 · May 14, 2007

^^^
isn't that a wedge tornado??

poshbakerloo

Discussion Starter · #12 · May 14, 2007

thats one of the few wedge tornadoes that the UK sees. in birmingham MIDLANDS...

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poshbakerloo

Discussion Starter · #13 · May 14, 2007

Location: Skegness Coastal Road, UK

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DiggerD21

· #14 · May 14, 2007

The strongest measured tornadoes in Germany reached F5. But they appeared in the 18th century. The strongest ones here in 20th century reached F4.
Last year there was a F2-tornado in the south of Hamburg. Three construction cranes fell and caused two deaths, several trees were disrooted and more than 300.000 people were without energy for a short while.

jmancuso

· #15 · May 14, 2007

poshbakerloo said:
i have read that although the United States get over 800 tornadoes average per year and Britain get 32 (i was surprised to hear it was that high), Britain has the highest amount of tornadoes per square mile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! could this be true???? although i did read that the British scale of measuring tornadoes is mush smaller starting as T1 which is just a small circular wind that only stirs up dust...

yes because most of the united states doesn't get tornadoes or at the least, they are rare. most of those 800 tornadoes occur in the plains states; texas, oklahoma, kansas and nebraska.

Xusein

· #16 · May 15, 2007

They are almost unknown here.

MDguy

· #17 · May 15, 2007 (Edited)

4

bad things happen when a tornado goes through a CBD...

Ft. worth, Texas

SAlt lake city, Utah

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Ramses

· #18 · May 15, 2007

NullVier

· #19 · May 15, 2007

^^ but that's not a typical tornado!?

London_2006

· #20 · May 15, 2007

Ramses said:

That's a dust devil

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