A fairly busy month compared with July 03, with four confirmed tornadoes, thirteen funnel clouds, one waterspout and one land devil. By comparison last year saw one confirmed tornado, four probables and one possible. Eight funnel clouds and two probables. Three waterspouts and one possible. One land devil.
WHIRLWINDS JULY
FC 1st July 1220 BST Shetland. Weather Station. Courtesy Paul Brown
FC 2nd July North Chatton, N.Thumbs. Photo as proof
WS 4th July Bude, Cornwall. Photo's as proof. Courtesy UKWW. Rob Lancs
2FC 4th July Bude, Cornwall. Photo's as proof. Courtesy UKWW. Rob Lancs
FC 4th July Drum, E.Lothiam. Photo in Edinburgh Evening News
FCTN 4th July Telford, Shrops. Investigated by TORRO executive Matt Capper.
TN 4th July Caithness. Photo johnogroats Journal. Courtesy Paul Brown.
FC 10th July 2000 BST Reading. Photo by TORRO member Alec Bennett
FC 6th July. Chester. Courtesy Paul Brown.
TN 9th July 1453 BST Kirkudbright, Scotland. Report by pilot sent in courtesy Nigel Bolton.
2 FC 10th July 1230 BST Algakirk, S. Lincs. Photo's by TORRO member Jim Burrill.
FC 10th July 1430 BST Holderness, E. York. Eyewitness statement Mr RMA Smart.
FC 22nd July N.Wilts . Via Swindon News. Courtesy Paul Brown.
TN 22nd July Daventry, Northants. Eyewitness reported airborn debris. Site investigation by TORRO members Sam Jowett, Stuart Robinson and Ray Peverall.
LD 26th July 1330 BST Stirling, Scotland. 20ft wide whilwind. Eyewitness Donald Beaton.
2 FC 29th July Blackpool. Photo's as proof. TORRO member Janet Burns.
FC 30th July Spalding. Courtesy USU Newsgroup.
OFFICIAL SEVERE WEATHER ADVISORIES AND WATCHES
An official tornado watch was issued 17th July and 22nd July. 22nd produced a tornado within the watch period.
An official severe thunderstorm advisory was issued 22nd July and 29th July.
Forecaster: meteorologist Paul Knightley.
DISCUSSIONS
A big thank-you to Sam, Stuart and Ray for involving themselves in what was to be an awkward site investigation. A conclusion has yet to be drawn as to whether there was more than one tornado involved. Opinions point to a combination of strong downdrafts and tornadic activity making the damage paths irregular and patchy.
The month brought in some excellent photo's to the forum. Reports are much more complete if we can add a picture to the data base along with other detail.
Well done to executive Paul Knightley with a successful tornado watch covering the Daventry event. Thoughts are now leaning toward adding brief Adv/watches to the TORRO web page for the public to observe. This will be an important step forward for TORRO , but remains experimental for now.
Thank you to TORRO executive Nigel Bolton for his continued commitment to posting reports over from the UK Met Office. These reports could easily otherwise never reach our attention.
The TORRO forum remains busy and growing fast with members. Just a reminder, that we have made as many categories as possible to cover every need. Please DO make your posts to the correct forum! This is essential if we are to pluck out important items for the database at the end of the month. This is made harder if they are mixed with other posts, which are not relevant to that discussion. Please also remember to put in day, date, time(BST) place INCLUDING county for all reports. Saying that, please do feel free to post ANY weather discussions to the General Weather forum for us all to participate with.
Any omissions or errors please post directly to me and NOT this thread. Thankyou!
Best Wishes
Tony Gilbert (Director and Site Investigation Co ordinator to TORRO)
mailto:Anthony.gilbert@torro.org.uk