Home » Education

Tornado Watch UK

Ranked #30,936 in Education, #514,373 overall | Donates to Soldiers Angels

Tornado Watch UK

This is my site about Tornadoes in the UK. They may not be as big as American Tornadoes but we sure have a lot of them.  I hope you like it.  If you see any and want to update us  or send images, please do get in touch. Roxsana

New RSS: Add Your Own Feed

Make your own RSS module. 1. Add to your lens. 2. Paste any RSS (xml) link location into the module. 3. Select how often you want it to update. 4. Boom! Customized feeds for your topic.

UK is World's Most Tornado-Prone Nation

Britons twice as likely to witness a tornado as Americans

UK is World's Tornado Hotspot

With the amount of media coverage dedicated to American storm-chasers, you'd think the US had the monopoly on these twisters. It doesn't. It might come as a shock, but the United Kingdom is actually the world's most tornado-prone nation.

This fact was calculated by the late Dr Fujita of Chicago University. He devised the standard method of measuring tornado intensity. Fujita figured that since Britain has an average of 33 tornadoes every year in an area 38 times smaller than the USA, you're twice as likely to witness a tornado here.

The main organisation which monitors Tornadoes in the UK is Torro (www.toro.org.uk)

Here is their definition of a tornado:

A tornado is a violent rotating column of air that reaches to the ground from a storm cloud in the shape of a condensation funnel created and maintained by strong inflowing winds. The spinning winds can attain extremely high speeds which provide great risk to property and life at the ground and in the air.

If you want to go storm chasing in the UK and see pictures and information about tornadoes in your area, visit www.stormchasers.co.uk

New Amazon Standard

Loading

UK Tornados on Youtube

Amazing footage of sea spout off British coast

Tornados don't just occur over land. Here is some amazing YouTube footage of a sea spout twisting its way inland off the south coast of England in 2006
Loading

New Guestbook

submit
Show All

Tornado links Plexo

Sites about Tornados in the UK

All the Tornado websites in the UK printed to fit!

1

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | World | Animated guide: Tornadoes

How tornadoes, among the world's most severe storm more...0 points

2

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Tornado hits London

Six people were injured when a tornado swept throu more...0 points

3

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | England | London | Tornado was like 'Wizard of Oz'

Local residents speak of destruction caused by the more...0 points

4

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | England | London | Battered homes to be demolished

As damage to homes hit by the London tornado is as more...0 points

5

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | England | West Midlands | Birmingham's hard tornado lesson

People living in Birmingham's suburbs will know ho more...0 points

6

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Living with tornados

As a tornado hits a Lancashire village, BBC News c more...0 points

7

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | England | Lancashire | Mini-tornado strikes Lancashire

A mini-tornado touches down in a Lancashire villag more...0 points

8

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | Wales | South West Wales | Tornado damages houses

Roofs are blown off houses and a lamp post knocked more...0 points

9

Vote Up
Vote Down

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3387531.stm

Did you see the Barry tornado? Check out the photo more...0 points

10

Vote Up
Vote Down

Birmingham Tornado (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Birmingham Tornado 2005 - Worst for 30 years0 points

11

Vote Up
Vote Down

ON THIS DAY | 21 | 1950: Tornado sweeps southern England

Two people die and more are injured as violent sto more...0 points

12

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | England | Lincolnshire | Clean up after tornado hits town

Residents start to clear up rubbish after a tornad more...0 points

13

Vote Up
Vote Down

BBC NEWS | England | North Yorkshire | Farmer 'lifted in air' by tornado

A farmer escapes injury after being lifted into th more...0 points

14

Vote Up
Vote Down

Pattaya Villas

Own Luxurious Pattaya villas in Pattaya, Thailand. more...0 points

15

Vote Up
Vote Down

Medical Outsourcing

Medical outsourcing has acquired reputation from m more...0 points

by

roxsana

Hello world. This is my site about tornados in the UK. I hope you like it. Roxsana

Feeling creative? Create a Lens!

Explore related pages

Related Tags