OFFICIAL SEVERE WEATHER ADVISORIES/WATCHES
Forecasting:
Severe weather advisories and watches were issued by Meteorologist
Paul Knightley
Tornadoes
- 0 Tornado Advisories
- 4 Tornado Watch
Thunderstorms
- 3 Convective Outlooks
- 3 Convective Discussions
For full forecasts and dates, go to the 'Severe Weather Watches & Advisories' section of the TORRO Forum.
January events [to date] as assembled by Terence Meaden & Paul Brown
Abbreviations:
TN = Tornado
FC = Funnel Cloud
LD = Land Devil
WS = Water Spout
* = Event occurred within forecasted parameters
FC = 1 Ashill Somerset* TN = 3 Farnborough Hants, Exeter Devon*, Darvel Ayrshire*
There were also 2 Eddie Whirlwinds at Lake Buttermere Cumbria and Woking Surrey
In The News
The start of 2007 has been an active month for severe weather! Who knows, this may be the way it
goes for the rest of the year. It would appear the the UK saw the warmest January for decades and
could this have gone someway towards creating some of the events described on the forum this month?
A TN at Farnborough in Hampshire was investigated by Tony Gilbert. Photographs
on the thread
show damaged roofs and a striking image of a garage without a roof (that was and still is `lost´
following the event). It has been given an initial rating of T2. A separate TN that occurred on
the 21st of January at Darvel, Ayrshire was reported with photographs in local press. The newspaper
article accessed
via the thread shows a wooden shed collapsed and a tree (that I would call big
enough) felled by the winds. Both of these TN events were forecast by Paul Knightley in the
severe weather watches &
advisories thread.
Site Investigation
Members are reminded that that one of the prime functions of TORRO is to
acquire and research severe weather. This can only be achieved by the pro-active involvement
of its members in this worthwhile activity. It is only by getting out and seeing the damage and
recoding the detail in person that we can hope to gain a true understanding of what has occurred.
If you are interested in knowing more then please go to
http://www.torro.org.uk/TORRO/research/siteinvestigation.php