Just had a Tornado form outside my house

[HillBill]

As title, it never touched down (i don't think) but wasn't far off. Great to see it come straight down out of the clouds. It was there a few minutes and dissapeared. Never seen one before.

 

[udamiano]

wow, now thats impressive I find those really fascinating, always wanted to go storm chasing in America, but the cost is way out of my league

 

[Shewie]

Poo, I missed that

 

[Dartmoor navigator]

It was probably aiming for that ugly chimney on the right hand side of that house...



I love extreme weather... But then don't we all.

 

[HillBill]

lol yeah, thats a chinese restaraunt, let it hit it lol

It was probably aiming for that ugly chimney on the right hand side of that house...



I love extreme weather... But then don't we all.

 

[Shambling Shaman]

Poo, I missed that

Could have been - seen it and poo!

Weather has been all over the shop this year.

 

[Mike Bowler]

wow that's cool

 

[WULF]

When i saw the title i first thought you were a us member....but west yorks is scary.I too haven't seen one before so thanks for sharing the piccy.

 

[Barn Owl]

We had a smaller one over the village yesterday.

 

[EarthToSimon]

Wow, thats pretty amazing. where is West Yorkshire was it?

Once saw a little one near Ferrybridge power station, always carry a camera now just in case.

 

[HillBill]

It was over the heckmondwike/Batley area.

 

[British Red]

We get them here quite a lot - at least storm cells, dust devils etc.

That one is better than most of the ones we get here though - they rarely touch down here.

Great piccs!

 

[xylaria]

cool photo mark!!!

I saw one over the ship canal area between manchester and liverpool years ago, it only lasted a few minutes. I have seen them out to sea but they never last long.

I got some photos of some really awsome mama cloud last week, proper creepy.

 

[abominable_scouse_monster]

Aren't we supposed to have more of them than any other place on earth but they are just incredibly weak? as in it might make the dust swirl about but nothing else kinda small.

But yea that is a really nice pick, I watched a documentary about storm chases and I wouldn't want one near me, at any strenght.

 

[santaman2000]

Aren't we supposed to have more of them than any other place on earth but they are just incredibly weak? as in it might make the dust swirl about but nothing else kinda small...

I'm not sure what the cut-off is but they have to reach a certain strength before they're actually considered a tornado. Less is just a 'dust devil," "whirlwind," etc.

It wouldn't surprise me if you get quite a lot; you're on the verge where two diferent weather systems collide (the Gulf Stream coming north into an Arctic system coming South)

 

[Kepis]

Aren't we supposed to have more of them than any other place on earth but they are just incredibly weak? as in it might make the dust swirl about but nothing else kinda small.

But yea that is a really nice pick, I watched a documentary about storm chases and I wouldn't want one near me, at any strenght.

I heard on the radio the just the other day, that per area of land mass, the UK has more Tornados than any other country on Earth, we had one not that long ago just off the coast, so that would make it a water spout, i even got to speak with Paul Ross (Jonathan's brother) about it

 

[HillBill]

Another pic of it here from a mates phone.

 

[squishy]

I have seen a couple of these before, and a few water spouts over the sea. I think this is the best one I've spotted though.. glad I told Mark to get the camera as it was only there a few minutes and neither he or his son had seen one before You could actually see it getting bigger at first and then going back up into the clouds.. very cool to watch although I was slightly disappointed that we seemed to miss all the lightning that everyone else was talking about.. nothing better than sitting by your bedroom window all snuggled up in a blanket watching lightning come down

 

[santaman2000]

Those of you who have seen one; were you close enough to hear it?

 

[HillBill]

Yeah that'd be pretty cool.

wow, now thats impressive I find those really fascinating, always wanted to go storm chasing in America, but the cost is way out of my league