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Hazelrigg Weather Station
IENS, Lancaster University
Meteorological Office Climatological Station Number 7236
A series of (4) pictures of a mini tornado/funnel cloud forming over the Dolphinholme / Forton area.
Geoff Hall of Aldcliffe supplied these spectacular mini tornado/funnel cloud digital photographs from over the Bowland fells
taken by his colleague Robin Kyle, also of Aldcliffe.
Approx 1030hrs. Day unknown. Sometime between June 28th and July 2nd
Looking from Mallowdale / Woodyards fell boundary on the Abbeystead Estate, due West towards the sea.
The location directly beneath the phenomena would possibly be the Dolphinholme / Forton area.
Difficult to judge the scale and distance. The tail of the mini tornado was seen to move and whip around confirming that
what was observed was indeed a mini tornado. If Any other persons saw such a phenomena during the dates mentioned above or in fact at anytime
please contact p.leigh@lancaster.ac.uk or anybody in the Environmnetal Science Department at Lancaster University.
"A clutch of small tornadoes in recent weeks has caught the attention of the media. One description was, "It was travelling down the road towards us like a giant carrot".
Actually tornadoes are not orange, but can certainly be carrot shaped. The UK Tornado and Storm Research Organisation confirm that the tronadoes in the UK are of
a much lesser magnitude than American ones. There are on average 30-40 tornadoes per annum in Britain, occuring on approximately 20 days during the year.
Most of them are minor and cause little damage.
They are most likely to occur in Autumn, during the late afternoon and like the American tornadoes they normally travel from
south-west to north-east.
The greatest death toll from a single tornado in Britain was six, at Edwardsville, just north of Cardiff, on Oct 27th 1913".
Philip Eden, Daily Telegraph, 10/07/04.
(1) Funnel cloud developing - fig 1
(2) Funnel cloud developing - fig 2
(3) Funnel cloud developing - fig 3
(4) Funnel cloud developing - fig 4
July 2004
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