Tornado off Brighton UK 1st Oct 2006

[MetWeatherUK]

Not a tornado. A waterspout.

[Tote1883gas]

I bet thats not the longest pipe that was seen in Brighton that day

[Howtomakedotcom]

theres 2 tornadoes but its mostly likely for the one your focusing is going to happen

[lwood19]

Hi, would you be interested in letting me use this footage for my documentary I'm making for college about uk severe weather, please get back to me I'm desperate for footage cheers. email- fallenskyeluke@aol.com

[WillyWonkersFactory]

Global warming Dosent exist because our country has been around the same temperature for over 10 years

[SuperHardTrance]

Well we will be ok if people of this world including me stop with the stupidly insane polution!!!! PLEASE

[elaine6655]

i can see something flying

[ateasdale38]

seen a mini whirlwind in newcastle today

[dangleberry07]

must be a gaynado

[smallrossy]

@dangleberry07 very clever lol

[UglyBob123]

@dangleberry07 hahahaah

[PDolton]

the point is. its extremely rare to see a tornado in england!!!

[XXcod6guyXX]

@PDolton uk has any average of 35-50 tornados a year lol

[missfirstaid]

does oshawa get tornatos

[LoafOfPint]

Torn anus.

[coolalex766]

do u know any thunderstorms coming to brighton soon? Apart from last night :P

[bizzybelle2000]

Thats a water spout

[Landotter1]

@bizzybelle2000 Technically, yes, but it is not a shearzone type, which is what most waterspouts are this one looks like a mesocyclone type, in other words, a real one, not a glorified dust devil. Just my observation and opinion. :-D

[dragonamt]

@Landotter1 shearzone (sometimes called dust tube and landspouts over land) are still considered tornadoes by most meteorologists because they reach the cloud base of a cumuloform cloud, but indeed they are generally pretty weak. Although, in truth, most mesocyclone tornadoes are relatively weak as well but you will never see a shearzone F5, all F4 and F5 (or EF now) tornadoes have been from mesocyclone systems (I know Europe has some other rating scale, I am not familiar with it though).

[Landotter1]

@dragonamt What's really nice to see is either a) some folks are either educated about this or b) have done their homework and can conversate with some knowledge. So many times there are folks that make statements and have no idea what they are talking about so, it is nice to talk to someone that has some idea, if you know what I mean. :-)

[lilmissbabyphat1]

My cousin was going there with some friends for the weekend the day before. She missed the coach... Good damn job too!

[JackWolf10]

i bet my cousin was like OH SHITE O_O

[NielsShoe]

Cyclones are over 70miles wide this is a tornado but because it is over water its called a water spout.

[Dragonsilverfang]

and it's a cyclone not a tornado. tornado's form over land and cyclones form over water

[R0ckMusicL0v3r]

@Dragonsilverfang No, that's a waterspout. A cyclone is any large, persistent low pressure event. A tornado is a localized, brief low pressure event.

[R0ckMusicL0v3r]

@R0ckMusicL0v3r Added: that forms or touches land. 

[Landotter1]

@Dragonsilverfang Tornadoes form over water. I see them form over large lakes sometimes. Cyclones are another word for huricanes that form south of the equator, like in Australia. They are not the same as a tornado. Completely different weather conditions form each of these.... good day! :-D

[Dragonsilverfang]

i think there where 5 and in the left top hand corner there's another one i think?

[rugbyking32]

i was in whitby ages ago when a tornado started about 100 metres off shore it wasnt big or strong but scared the shit out of every1 on the bach every1 ran

[stellapaulie]

wow

[TheFighterpilot93]

We had a tornado over peterborough! It was aswome but my sister shat herself lmao!

Fact: We get more tornadoes than the USA!

[lshannon41]

@TheFighterpilot93 that's true, I saw it on QI. We had about 4 here in pembrokeshire last week!

[TheFighterpilot93]

@lshannon41 We have loads but usually they never hit the ground its about 5/10 chance the funnel will hit the ground! British tornadoes usually reach up to an F2 Or F1! However it really craps my sister out when she sees 1 lol!

[lshannon41]

@TheFighterpilot93 lol, yeah, the ones I saw were quite small probably f1, a few others didn't touch down. I think i prefer to live here and have more chance of seeing a small tornado than live in the states and never see one until one day an f4/f5 rips away my house!

[TheFighterpilot93]

@lshannon41 Possibly an F-3Could 2! Depends how much pressure there is in the Tornado itself! Tornadoes are basically descised thermals! Tornadoes are practically all around us! Gliders and aircraft use them as Lift! Mostly known as Wave lift. :-) Yu could of drived threw 1 earlier lmao! And id love to live in the USA so much warmer lol!

[lshannon41]

@TheFighterpilot93 You clearly know your stuff. I know a little bit about the science behind tornadoes. Certainly the parts of the USA that get most the big tornadoes are a lot warmer than here. I have friends in Oklahoma I mightvisit at some point could see some big tornadoes there if I go at the right time of year, although would want to get too close!

[TheFighterpilot93]

@lshannon41 Texas and Oklahoma get reasonably high amount of Tornadoes! However theres are huge up to F5 tornadoes touch down in Texas. And be careful try and take some pictures if you can :-)

[wittner19]

@TheFighterpilot93 we dont have more tornados so no its not a fact. we have more per sq mile yes, but nowhere near as many. look at how many one storm caused in the us recently, more than we get a year!

[jbcd1211]

wow! i have never seen a tornado out at see

[TheCroft666]

Cuz we Dnt have any here in the uk we Dnt need em yet lol

[AbeNW11]

@TheCroft666 We have an average of 50+ a year. For the size the UK is this actually makes us the most prone to Tornadoes.

[Droideka133]

Why don't they sound your sirens. In the US they sound the sirens for sever thunderstorms and fires.

[MrKto12]

@Droideka133 We don't have sirens in the UK, a tornado destroying a structure is rare, although it does happen, search London Tornado and Tornado In Birmingham.

[atombomb31458]

aunty M!!!!

[tomtomx4]

i would have love to be there.

[edgaras1973]

i know brighton and i been there loads of times. did it came to land and did it degtory the buildings.

[coolgirlyhotty]

Holy crap! Thats not more then 5 or 6 hours away from us!

[KingFreakAce]

@coolgirlyhotty thats like 30 mins to me

[NokiaC2Vod]

Did u see tht bird it looked like it span around inside it and came out in the other direction at 1:43 lol

[loganwalllog]

i wos at the london 2 brighton run that day

[Vikicashmore]

luckilly it was at sea so no one got hurt :)

[dragonridley]

That would make it a waterspout. If it was on land it would be a tornado.

[forre65413]

@dragonridley Even though it's over water that could classify as a tornado. Depends upon your definition, but true tornadoes form from thunderstorms, and waterspouts can occur without a thunderstorm, even on clear days. This I would call a tornado because of the thunderstorm.

[TheSheikhIsmail]

@dragonridley excuse me watch further it comes on to the land

[liamis01177]

lol

[lowestoftbus]

This was a water spout which formed out at sea.

[joeyproductions9]

im soo glad it didnt hit my house

[justme200194]

If you look closely, you can see another funnel cloud forming to the far left!

[HammyDoodles123]

@justme200194 oh yh,

[brightguy01]

thats went over my mums car

[Noushyno1]

WOAH! Holy shit

[oracle2024]

yeh!

[oracle2024]

this sucker pasted right ova my car,

[DeltaSquad5]

Wow, I bet you were shitting yourself!

[scousecei]

if you see a blue van parked on the side i was in it

[xjustlikeux]

we will never have tornadoes like they do in america ...ours are just puny!

[DeltaSquad5]

I'm thankful for that. The strongest we've had most recently was in birmingham and london. Both were F3 (or T5 depending on which scale you use)

[BleachLover36]

i was in the one in bham aswell,tis oracle by the way

[SMITHY817]

I live in Brighton and had no idea this ever happened!

[andyknight1]

Footiemad87, the most likely place to see a tornado is in the midwest of America, Oklahoma, Kansas ect. the south of england is the UK'S tornado Alley, what we are seeing here is a waterspout, which is basically a tornado at sea, but does'nt need a Cumulonimbus to spawn it, this came out a cumulous congestus cloud. It became a tornado when it hits land, but it dissapated soon after comming ashore

[whatsyourstyle99]

Wow, I live opposite the marina (in the big white houses) and I must of been in Coma or something when this happenned (lived there for over 6 years) ive never seen any tornados in Brighton before either.

Great footage

[cjellwood]

i was up the road in Ditchling. A week before I was on the beach wondering what it would be like to see a tornado roll in from the see. They scare the shit out of me

[myhorsemystic]

i was so scared cause i was 11 and my mum and dad own 2 shops in brighton along the sea front and they both went into work that day but i didnt know what time the tornamdo was around

[ALFWEDARF]

This is amazing footage, I'd shit myself if I'd been there

[ramoneschick1]

Lol i love your accents, god that looks horrible id be crappin myself lol

[leighmckie]

oh yeah so there is well spotted x

[hurricaneheardy111]

Look far left there is another one!

[chocolate0bob]

kindov

[chloenator123]

Is that at scgness / cleephorpes ( coast )

cos i reconise it

[mission100uk]

look at the title you dick

[cjellwood]

lol

[xjustlikeux]

maybe if you look at the TITLE!! it might tell you, spoon freak....i like that word hehe

[charlie30102007]

sorry to inform you but that is a waterspout it is classed as a tornado once it hits land..... honest mistake

[footiemad87]

well it did hit land towards the end

[NufcJamesH]

but it did hit the ground

[alchabo2k6]

man i wish more things like that happend in the uk i want to be a tornado chaser....anyway i wonder what f it was

prob f2

[sharlock64]

don't say that mate lool we are only a small country and alot of people live here so casulaties will be very high and repairs very high aswell

[sammieLOVEScsiny]

They are only given raitings when damange is done, since it broke up upon land fall its classed as an F0 because no damange was done. the EF and F scales are mesure of damange not windspeed.

[footiemad87]

well the uk is the tornado capital of the world, ur more likely to see a tornado here than anywhere else

[FarSheerX]

thats not a tornado its called a water spout when its in the water

[amybaby18]

i used to live near hurstpierpoint, went to see my aunty in upper beeding one evening and up on the hill above the terrace there was a tornado.....we were all shit scared of it and it was one of the most vivid memories in my childhood!

[elephantstone67]

beauty!!! some people say that tornados are the primitive way of alien abduction...they changed it as soon as they realised "the prey" got ripped off before reach up the ship

[johnnypudsey83]

And the cars just keep on driving towards it lol

[sfamfilms]

it didnt touch down

[megashorts]

It did. There is clearly a cloud of spray below the funnel which confirms the touchdown.

[bramfin]

it broke up when it hit the cliffs, there's another video of it on here somewhere.

[Grizzly696]

why didn't it hit the west pier and just get rid of it dammit!! its looks so bad!

[Grizzly696]

i lived in Brighton and that was awesome to see that out in see! glad it didn't come ashore though! my flat no longer be there! lol

[larrypearce2]

Look Out!!! Mr. Bean's about to be sucked up!

[stormguy101]

no the last person was right...its water spout. Water spout is a violent rotating column of air with strong sheer that occurs in the water.

[PaRtYpOkErPlAyEr77]

Its WATER SPOUT not SPROUT

[tiggertigger12]

that isn't a tornado its a WATER SPROUT

[ozzyscruggs1]

If the cycle is 11 years, it's sunspot related.

Isn't there a tight correlation between mean temperature and greenhouse CO2 ppm? The latter has gone up and stayed up, and the cause is painfully obvious.

[doodlestroodle]

There's a short video of the same twister by beckyboobag that shows the other funnel cloud quite clearly.

[doodlestroodle]

Do my eyes deceive me or was this one rotating clockwise rather than the usual counter-clockwise? The object in left screen hanging from the cloudbase near the beginning does look suspiciously like a funnel cloud. It's not unusual to have 2 areas of rotation, especially if, as I suspect, the main one was spinning backwards. This sometimes happens when a severe storm splits in 2.

[TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY]

I thought a water SPROUT, was something in Chinese food lol. Oh no, that's water chestnut. You're right though, it's a water spout.

[blackgixerthou14]

england has the highest count of tornados but they are all off coast like this one!

[Scandium98]

...except now there are more tornadoes per season, in more locations, of higher intensities. Plus more intense and varied hurricanes, numerous heat waves and droughts, and all sorts of anomalies that can't be explained away as a normal 'pattern'

[codling95]

I SAW that tornado i was in a plane whene it hit

[DeltaSquad5]

Were you scared?

[dandaman06]

princeyugi a water spout is formed of water not air-.-

[markhorneyuk]

I believe in globle warming, but.... this is just plain normal.

[strepcast101]

Great tornado - the term "waterspout" should be confined to history!

[bramfin]

lol! Tornado sounds much cooler huh?

[Princeyugi232]

thats not a tornado thats a water sprout

[LunarAstrai]

that's called a water spout. and yes, we americans get a shit load of tornadoes. >~< it sucks... more than volcanoes..

[amywamy999]

Amazing. Thanks for filming it.

[Oddworld200]

OMG!! I live in the UK, apparently we get 40 tornadoes a year, but america gets like over 500 a year

[grizadams07]

Lol America gets more than 500 a year. America gets 500 maybe all summer. The worst part of the season for America is spring and the end of summer/beginning of fall. Some storms in 2005/2006, while traveling across the U.S. developed hundreds of tornadoes from just one line of storms

[chinsup]

the UK your alot more likely to see one as we have the most per square mile and if you include watersprouts we have alot more then 40(thats only the confirmed amount)

[grizadams07]

Well I read an article after posting my last post on this topic, and the U.S. in fact does get the most, and UK gets the second most, but over the years the number will go up drastically for everyone and we will start seeing tornadoes in places we thought impossible, all because of global warming, which has set new records for tornadoes everywhere. Lets all thank douche bag George Bush for taking time to kill innocent people instead of address more important topics like Global Warming.

[chinsup]

hmmm did you read what I write we get most per square mile

[grizadams07]

Yea because your a much smaller country, but it doesnt mean your more likely to see one. Theres a place in the U.S. called tornado alley where just the most average storms will produce funnel clouds, they see funnel clouds everytime storms hit, but in the U.K tornadoes can form anywhere, whereas the U.S. its very unlikely to see tornadoes in alot of states

[chinsup]

no they arnt anywhere like the South East your never gonna see one torado's normally occure in certain places in the UK, mainly in the west midlands, and south wales, there are places where people have never seen a tornado

[mixindave1]

did it start raining cod ;)

[steve78945878547]

it looked like there was another tornado trying to form on the left of the screen, but wasnt strong enough!!

[natsukitamami]

that is so cool! i wud have probably ran to china freaking out...cuz we in australia never get tornados..only occasional mini tiny ones.

[stevie1974]

great footage of a tornado!

[JamieKiter]

nice

[dan69gp]

good footage, hey was that a plane i saw fly through it at about 1:10, or was it my imagination?? (or a bird)...

[bramfin]

Think it's a seagull.

[DeltaSquad5]

Stupid bird. Then again, they can survive the tornado. If a plane flew into it...well, i'll leave it to your imagination.

[MykellUK]

Awesome vid. Just out of curiousity though - at the start of the vid is that another tornado on the extreme left of the shot?

[bramfin]

Nope, there was definitely just the one!

[soulstep1979]

HARDCORE...I live in Hastings and seem to keep missing all these water spout/twisters we keep having "off the coast"..can't believe u managed to film one, and while it was going over land too!! Oh, what were you doin up at 7am on a sunday morning anyway!!

[DeltaSquad5]

Good Question. Who gets up at 7am...ON A SUNDAY?!

You should have had a sleep in.