Forecasting Severe Weather in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Knightley, Paul

doi:10.1002/9781118949986.ch12

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“…The case therefore illustrates the difficulties of anticipating tornado risk (both in a general sense, and for individual convective cells) in environments that support the development of numerous cells, but which appear only marginally favourable for severe convection, a situation that is apparently not uncommon in the UK (e.g. Knightley, 2016).…”

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Investigating the Surrey tornado of 21 December 2019

Horton¹,

Clark

Kirk

2021

Weather

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On 21 December 2019, a tornado hit several towns and villages in Surrey, UK. This article details the findings of a damage site investigation by the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation and discusses the synoptic and mesoscale settings of the event. The tornado lasted for approximately 13min, reached a strength of T3 on the International Tornado Intensity Scale, and produced a damage track of length ~11.35km and maximum width ~60m.

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