Tornado Strike Birmingham!

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UK, not Alabama...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4725279.stm

Though we get more tornados per unit land area per year than any other country on Earth, we don't actually get all that many, and for a T3/4 to touch down in the middle of the second largest city is really rather unusual, so it's quite big news.

No-one seriously hurt, and nearly £50,000 of improvements inflicted.
 
It was officially an F2 twister, with wind speeds in the area of 130MPH.

Twenty three injured, 3 seriously.
 
we don't have that kind of weather here in belgium, so i don't now how it's like to be hit by an tornado.
 
*shrugs*

BBC say:

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An ambulance spokesperson said: "The Ambulance Service has removed approximately 20 patients to Heartlands Hospital, Selly Oak Hospital, and Dudley.

"One child was taken to Birmingham Children's' Hospital. None of the injuries are believed to be life-threatening, although three patients were more seriously injured with fractures.
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:D

Couple of fractures, sure they'll live. Everything else is just stuff. If you didn't laugh, you'd go bonkers.

The T scale (T0-10) is British. The F scale (F0-5) is "forrin". It was a T3/4, not an F2. :D
 
I prefer the F scale :D

I saw a pic in the paper today. Wow. Fair bit of damage though the funniest thing was on the news where a polo was moved 10 yards but the beamers and a Mercedes didn't budge.

I thinkl there was a water spout in teh Bristol Channal last year, I'll check.
 
Yes there was. Other notables include a second one in Peterborough yesterday, one in Coventry a couple of years back and a waterspout which only made land for 500 yards in Selsey and the only damage it did was to suck up Patrick Moore's garden observatory.

We get ~33 tornadoes a year. A T3 is unusual.
 
Wow thats sudden i didnt think we were in tornado territory, but obviously we are but how? we are not between the tropics of capricorn and cancer.... or is this hurricanes im thinking of.
 
I think that's rainforests you're thinking of.

We get more tornadoes every year per unit land area than any other country in the world. We also get hurricanes (remember 1987?). We don't get typhoons or cyclones (well... we get meterological cyclones. We just don't get storms called cyclones) because they're alternate names for hurricanes with a specific geographic nature (typhoons form in the Pacific and go west, for instance).
 
Famine
We get more tornadoes every year per unit land area than any other country in the world.
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That's because you live in a country the size of Idaho.

50,000 quid? Heck, an American tornado can do that without half trying. I'm glad nobody has life-threatening injuries, though.
 
(that part was a joke... £50,000 of improvements...)

The actual damage isn't known - many home insurance policies don't cover tornadoes as they are "Acts of God" (yeah, cheers for that one, God).

Incidentally:

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Roofs (I prefer this to the neologistic "rooves") made of wood, buildings made of brick.
 
That looks like on mu-hassive needle appear out of the sky.... scarey stuff :nervous:
 
I believe that shortly after this, Terry Rapson telephones Prof. Jack Hall and tells him that some of the temperature beacons in the North Atlantic are giving him some strange readings...
sometime after this, 3 British Military helicopters drop from the sky...
 
dustdriver
we don't have that kind of weather here in belgium, so i don't now how it's like to be hit by an tornado.
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As someone who has been caught outside as a funnel cloud went overhead just before touching down, not fun. Crap pelting you, dirt flying around, trees acting like giant whips, fighting the wind just to stand up. And if you are really lucky you get golf ball (or larger) sized hail to beat you down.

Bee
Wow thats sudden i didnt think we were in tornado territory, but obviously we are but how? we are not between the tropics of capricorn and cancer.... or is this hurricanes im thinking of.
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The area in the US from Kansas to Kentucky is nicknamed Tornado Alley. It isn't exactly between the tropics either.
 
mmcm-80
here in oklahoma we chase tornadoes for fun.
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Wow such damning statement.

Sorry, but this thread died a while ago and it's no longer in the news. You really should have just let it die.
 

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