Tornado/Vortex seen from Bexhill On Sea, East Sussex 25-10-2011

[hellokittyxx1233]

this was on my birthday hoep i get on this year :P

[chuckie002]

yes it was 'about' 4pm in the uk (16:00 BST)

the same as 8 am (08:00 PDT) north america

UTC is a bit confusing as I believe during the summer the UK is one hour ahead of UTC but then we change our clocks an hour and match up after the summertime. So on that date it was 15:00 UTC or 16:00 BST both the same.

[KlipsiGeneva]

a BBC article says it was 16h00 BST, that means British Summer Time, right ? Estofex has it listed at 16h00 UTC, which is 17h BST. So what time was it really ?

[KlipsiGeneva]

what precise time was it ? Local time please, and were you still in summer daylight time or already in winter standard time in the UK ? I saw a tornadic waterspout same day in Italy. Maybe we filmed those at precisely the same moment, which might be a world historic first. I guess tornadoes may happen in different countries on same day quite often but to have them at the same minute AND both of the documented makes it a rare day. My Cinque Terre italy tornado was 3.33 PM local, 13.33 UTC

[tezbear1987]

well done to the amazing american! please people stand and give this person a standing ovation. way to go you guys have more powerful tornados that kill and destroy lives. nice one. and here is this person moaning at us for enjoying one that isn't strong enough to do anything bad.

and as several people have already stated......IT IS RARE IN ENGLAND! god damn it people if you are going to leave a stupid comment atleast read the others correctly.

[motana69er]

@ niselat what do you want a medal ? As someone has already said we very rarely get any thing like this in England so yer is a big deal to us

[niselat]

Ha! You English going all nuts over that tornado. In America, we have fans more powerful than that

[Vandertop]

Nice to see that somebody local has uploaded some footage of it! I was in a shop in Queens Road when I heard about it. We all rushed out to look at it - until our view was obscured by the shopping centre :( I think weather experts said it was a water-spout rather than a tornado. Cool though, and not something we see every day!

[chuckie002]

in answer to a comment earlier, this may not seem much to some, but this doesn't happen on the South coast of England so it is quite an event to us

[chuckie002]

This footage was shown on South East Today news on BBC1

[motana69er]

I was at work at the time was my t break when all the thunder and lighting was going on but there was no rain, my

Work is bout 30 seconds from seafront and could see the clouds shifting over very quickly

[technicalscience]

Not quite sure what all the hype is over this. Look at some of the American tornados on here... This was a tiny little thing, really not that amazing.

[mrpuffle3000]

awh i missed that! but that storm was mad, the rain sounded like hail at one point..

[we1330]

Blimey - in the right place at the right time!

[FuzzmuzzEx]

Sweet background music for a tornado. Maybe Reed Timmer should play something like that to help keep calm when intercepting. :-)

[tompeters1994]

like if reed timmer brought you here

[1pamlilaclady]

i was in work when all the thunder and rain and wind came and it sounded really scary, i didnt like it at all :( The rain was torrential for about 10 minutes and our car park got flooded.

[1pamlilaclady]

i was in work when all the thunder and rain and wind came and it sounded really scary, i didnt like it at all :(

[tezbear1987]

sadly i missed it cause i was not in work today lol. i too have never seen a tornado in hastings. im so angry i missed it. iv dreamed of chasing tornados since i was little. but i must say its really nothing compared to the ones they have in america lol.

thanks for uploading this. atleast i got to see it. thank you again.

[essexange]

Oh my god i would have shit myself

[fdwantstowatch]

Shame you count not see it touch down was a good sight, if only I had a good camera.

[UKIkarus]

I saw this from work too about 30 minutes ago... first I have ever seen here in Hastings... but it was quite fascinating.

[tezbear1987]

@MrTom235863

really? are we on about the same hastings? lol. wow id loved to see that!