OFFICIAL SEVERE WEATHER ADVISORIES/WATCHES
Forecasting:
Severe weather advisories and watches were issued by Meteorologist
Paul Knightley
Tornadoes
- 0 Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 0 Tornado Watch
Thunderstorms
- 0 Convective Outlooks
- 3 Convective Discussions
For full forecasts and dates, go to the 'Severe Weather Watches & Advisories' section of the TORRO Forum.
May 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 13 = Slough Berkshire*, Northallerton Yorkshire*, North London, Cannock Staffordshire,
twice in Macclesfield Cheshire, Garsington Oxon, Ombersley Worcestershire, Bristol Channel Somerset,
Beachey Head Sussex, Roxwell Essex, twice at 16km NE of Airport Jersey
TN 5 = Carrickfergus Co. Antrim, Dunboyne Co. Meath*, Ashbourne Co. Meath*, St. Helier Jersey,
Leicester and Densford Leicestershire
WS 4 = Grain Kent, Havre des Pas Jersey, Abergele Denbigh, Leith Scotland
In The News
It seems that severe weather in the UK has stepped up a gear, with 21 events reported during May
I have a few things to expand on in this section of the newsletter.
The TN at
Carrickfergus, County Antrim on May 9th was investigated by Martin North. Photographs of
damage at the site are included in the thread with a report by Martin that records T2 damage.
Thanks Martin! You will also see within the thread a radar image showing intense activity in the
Carrickfergus area at around the same time this event occurred.
At
Leicester and Densford, Leicestershire what began as a report of a FC on the 15th, with
accompanying photographs by Martyn Wells turned into a TN report followed up by Stuart Robinson
with a site investigation, this included an appeal for information in the local newspaper. Thanks
Stuart! The FC at Ombersley, Worcestershire is believed to be from the same system and there is
a photograph of that
here.
On the 20th at
Garsington near to Oxford Matt Dobson photographed a distant FC (and a very nice CG shot in
another image).
I think that the moral to this month is always keep your camera on you! You never know when YOU
will be in that all important position and regaling us with tales of "I was there". Its
usually better than the 'ol fisherman's tale: "It was this big".
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