Just heard report on the radio of a tornado in Oxfordshire?
Can any of our Oxfordshire members confirm this?
Can any of our Oxfordshire members confirm this?
Tornado in Oxfordshire?
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My dad (in Witney, West Oxfordshire) phoned me about 4pm to tell me about a hail storm, the worst he's ever seen apparently.
Just seen this - blimey!
Just seen this - blimey!
We heard thunder but thought no more of it until we saw the local news to find it had passed very close to us. The meadow next to our house was already flooded and we're under a hose pipe ban. I wonder whether my vegetable plot will be washed away, blown away or struck by lightning. Might end up by harvesting ready cooked spinach!
I popped over to my mothers who lives in witney (i am just outside 5 miles away and we had heavy rain) but my mothers place had a white-out with hail, when i went over the whole garden was white.
I heard about the Tornado but never saw it myself.
Mad weather.
Did it actually hit anything? Lift someone's car off the ground? Pull any roofs off? Or did it stay airborne? (not touch down)
It touched down, but only minor damage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-17986143
According to our Meteorological Office the UK gets more tornadoes per unit area than any other land mass in the world, but they never get to the size of those you have in the USA because we don't have such a big area of land.
As it happens I built a house near Oxford, and I saw two or three myself just a couple of hundred metres from the house, but they were only small things.
I got stuck in a Airport in the US once when a Tornado touched down, I must say it was one heck of a sight to behold, Then I thought why are you attending in what is a large glass structure with a tornado moving towards you...:theyareon
