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001 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]           UK Storms
002 Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]           Storms in the UK

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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 22:49:40 +0100
From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]
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Patrick Tobin wrote:

> Les,
>
> I notice you seem to be getting some more interesting
> weather over there. Picked this up off the BBC
> Web-site - unfortunately with the dreaded "mini-
> tornado" description.
>
> Wednesday, August 18, 1999 Published at 21:36 GMT 22:36 UK
> UK
> Lightning strike kills golfer
>
> Lightning and mini-tornados struck several parts of the country

AAARGH - Call TORRO, FAST!!

The UK has had several tornadoes in the last few days, most of them T2-3. I was
chasing an MCS near Hull after I'd finished work, a "mini - thunderstorm?" (:



>
>
> In Hampton, Middlesex, decorator Paul Hayes watched a mini-tornado rip the
> roof off a social club opposite his flat and slam into the side of his van.

Do they EVER Learn?????

>
>
> "One minute it was raining then it started to get a bit heavier. I came to
> the door and saw the roof flying past," said Mr Hayes, 42, who lives
> opposite the Old Hamptonians' Club in Pigeon Lane.
>
> "It went straight into the side of my van."

What did, the roof or the tornado???? 

>
> Twister devastation
>
> Earlier a similar twister struck around Battle and Sedlescombe, East Sussex,
> damaging several roofs and scattering items from a garden centre across a
> road.
>
> Pc Paul Beazer, of Hastings Police, said: "At around 0300 it would appear
> that a mini-tornado with high winds and torrential rain hit the Sedlescombe
> area."

Oh, No, Not More!!!

>
>
> But poor weather was not confined to the south.
>
> Heart surgeon Ghandhi Somasundram and his wife Daniella were woken in the
> early hours by a lightning bolt that hit their home in Heaton, Newcastle

Saw this one - spawned by a severe MCS - BIG C-G. HUGE on satpic.

> .

> British summertime
>
> The incidents came on top of the numerous thunderstorms and torrential rain
> that have brought flooding to several areas of Britain in August.
>
> But weather forecaster Neil Talboys, insisted there was nothing "freakish"
> about the conditions.
>

Correct, THIS IS NORMAL for the UK!!

Les


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Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:30:08 +0100
From: Les Crossan [les.crossan at virgin.net]
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dear list -

This is what I posted to uk.sci.weather a coupla days back. Any system
analysts or hardware people amongst you can have a good wince at this
one.... several hundred pounds worth of 3com router and thousands worth
of Compaq hardware EMP'd into oblivion!

Les


NB Hull (Kingston - upon - Hull) , Yorkshire is 54N 1 degree 25'W.

**SNIP**

dear list -

1800z - near Hull, large MCS / multicell  with arcus cloud, pronounced
RFD and RFB, mammatus, what looked like a vortex couplet  and plenty of
rotating
scud, travelling slowly SE. Lightning coming from two cells at a rate of

about 1 every few minutes, mostly CC. Torrential rain / pea sized hail.
Once cells passed over MASSIVE anvil seen, well defined, almost
completely circular  with a slight overshooting top and banding, wish I
had a camera!! No tornadoes or funnels seen.

BIG C-G in Hull itself around 1000z hit a lamp standard about 200 yards
away from the site i was working at, very loud crack of thunder, killed
the router and PC that I was working on stone dead.

Les

**SNIP**

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