OFFICIAL SEVERE WEATHER ADVISORIES/WATCHES
Forecasting:
Severe weather events this month have been forecast by both Nigel Bolton and Paul Knightley, with a number of severe weather events being reported within forecasted parameters.
Tornadoes
- 5 Tornado Advisories
- 1 Tornado Watch
Thunderstorms
- 3 Severe Thunderstorm Advisories
- 1 Severe Thunderstorm Watch
August events [to date] as assembled by Terence
Abbreviations:
TN = Tornado
FC = Funnel Cloud
LD = Land Devil
WS = Water Spout
* = Event occurred within forecasted parameters
TN
1st: Highdown Hill, nr Worthing, E. Sussex*
2nd: Shadoxhurst, Kent
11th: Coventry, Warwickshire
13th: Wigston, Leicester*
Worleston Aston Juxta Mondrum, Cheshire *
22nd: Myshall, Co. Carlow
25th: Hastings, East Sussex*
27th: Cardigan, Dyfed
FC
1st: Brighton, Sussex*
Portsmouth, Hampshire*
Selsey Bill, West Sussex*
Chichester, Sussex*
Melksham ? Trowbridge, W. Wiltshire*
Midsomer Norton
Paulton North Somerset*
Holcolmbe
Redhill, Surrey*
Dundry / Lulsgate, Somerset*
Langurig, Credigion
4th: Trowbridge, Wiltshire
Bristol City Centre, Somerset
10th: SW Aberdeen, Aberdeen [FC x4]
11th: Shap, Cumbria
Darlington, Co. Durham
13th: Ashford, Kent*
19th: Bedale, Yorkshire
25th: Rotherfield, East Sussex*
27th: Pencader, Dyfed
31st: Ballymena, Co. Antrim*
LD
8th: Watford, Hertfordshire
12th: Bilbrook, West Midlands
WS
1st: Benbridge ? Bognor, IOW*
Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex*
[U/K date] Off the West Coast Cumbria
COMMENTS
As you can see there were a number of severe weather events this month with clearly photographed events at both Shadoxhurst [Kent] and Bristol City Centre.
On Sunday the 4th there were two fatalities when a light aircraft encountered turbulent weather conditions and ditched into the Irish Sea.
On the 19th a house in Ferndown, Dorset was struck by lightning leaving the property uninhabitable. The subsequent blaze was attended to by 61 Fire-fighters who eventually brought the blaze under control.
August was also the month where the Southern United States felt the full force of Hurricane Katrina when she made landfall and created one of the worst natural disasters since the Asian earthquake of last December. Maximum sustained winds of 125mph drove a storm surge of 20 feet or more over and through the levees that were meant to protect the city of New Orleans and flooded the entire area displacing hundreds of thousands of people. The incident reflects potentially what could happen if flooding on the scale of the Great 1953 flood, struck East Anglia today.