What an amazing day so far.

This morning, me and a workmate were in Bognor regis West Sussex, in my lwb transit. parked up in one of our estates due to a heavy downpour.

As we were chatting, the rain went torential monsoon style, i have never seen rain that heavy before, even with the wipers on full pelt it couldnt clear the screen. All of a sudden, it went so dark, it was like it was the middle of the night, instantly the rain stopped. Then my mate shouts "fook look at that!!" pointing at 2 large recycling bins, to my amazement we watched them go upwards and 30ft and then smashed into a house on the other side of the road. I could see trees some 100 ft away being hit with incredible wind from the side, and debris being blown all over the place. It was coming at us. At which point my van started shaking side to side, really weird how you could feel the pressure was intense. then as quickly as it hit us it had gone.

After lots of swearing "that was a f ing tornado!!" looking around the estate, bins all over the place, branches everywhere, it became clear that 4 of our houses had lost fence panels and roof tiles.

In the neighbouring road, Linden Road, a house lost loads of roof tiles, that all crashed into parked cars and the buildings opposite.

There a 3 roads all closed off, police, fire engines everywhere.

Even tried to get in front of the local Meridian news camera for a shot.

Will be watching the local news at 6.

 

Ive seen one tornado in France, and a sea twister in Mexico, but i cant actually state i have been in a Tornado...............

May have only been small compared to US ones, but fookin awesome to say the least.

Stu

funny thing though, is the UK gets hit by more tornadoes than our US counter parts, they usually ain't very big unlike the US ones. so they dont tend to get reported as much on the national news.

 

(read that in national geographic so if its wrong, blame them lol)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-14082158

 

I think your write-up was better !

with such localised damage you would think they would put 2 and 2 together lol

I drove under one on the way to Lowestoft when I was 17, didnt hear or feel anything though.

Mates dad got thrown accross a field by one once.

Nice one Stu:thumbup: I love extream weather and as long as nobody gets hurt I would love to be in the middle of it

Nice one Stu:thumbup: I love extream weather and as long as nobody gets hurt I would love to be in the middle of it

 

Likewise mate!!

 

Richard:thumbup:

Awesome write up Stu.....you need to give up your job now and go chasing Twisters! :lol:

thats a great read Stu, I love stuff like that! :thumbup1:

there was one about a mile from my house today (westhoughton, bolton), my sister was sat in her car waiting to pick her kids up from school and it went past her, knocked a good few people over and ripped many roof tiles and fences from many houses, I heard a very strange kind of hellish roar a mile away, whether it was near by on it's way I don't know, which at the time, I wondered what it was, but didn't think too much of it! I wish I had seen it, but was too busy fitting downlights on my landing :(

Just seen it on the local news. Nice to know i was there. Would love to go proper storm chasing in the states.

http://www.itv.com/meridian-west/mini-tornado-in-sussex08866/

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-14087550?ref=nf