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Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: aldo_14 on July 28, 2005, 05:00:32 pm: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4725279.stm

I mean.... Birmingham?!
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 28, 2005, 05:03:44 pm: At first I thought it said "torpedo", making me wonder wtf a torpedo was doing in the middle of Birmingham. :wtf:

But ahh well, global warming sux, blame it on Bush, etc etc.

*Cue massive ecological debate*
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: Taristin on July 28, 2005, 05:16:34 pm: I thought this thread was gonna' be about alabama. Was gonna say that's normal... :nervous:
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: Deepblue on July 28, 2005, 05:42:35 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
I thought this thread was gonna' be about alabama. Was gonna say that's normal... :nervous:
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: pyro-manic on July 28, 2005, 06:43:33 pm: Pesky colonists, stealing our placenames....

Crazy stuff, though. It could have been rather nasty...
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: Martinus on July 28, 2005, 08:24:27 pm: [color=66ff00]Bloody hell, I was thinking 'air show accident' i.e. the fighter and not the weather.
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Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: Bobboau on July 28, 2005, 08:34:45 pm: I thought it said tomato, as you can imigine I fealt let down.
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: WeatherOp on July 28, 2005, 08:51:17 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Raa
I thought this thread was gonna' be about alabama. Was gonna say that's normal... :nervous:

I first thought, How could I have missed this! But, it's not my Birmingham.

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A Met Office spokesperson said: "From the reports we have heard we would estimate that this is a tornado with a rating of T3-T4, that would mean it had wind speeds of between 93-114 mph for T3 and 114-130 for T4.

Strong F1 or a F2 on the Fujita scale.
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: EtherShock on July 28, 2005, 11:41:53 pm: I had no idea England even got tornadoes.
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: Scuddie on July 29, 2005, 12:56:06 am: People also have no idea Norther California ever get tornadoes. Quite the contrary, tornadoes are fairly common here... It's just that they don't ever do anything :D.
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: redmenace on July 29, 2005, 02:41:22 am: I once had a friend have half their house torn off. Worse part is they were the only home in a 20 arce farm. Then unfortunatly the tornado went right down the main street of Fleetwood, Pa. I saw disaster when I went to help clean up the mess.
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: pyro-manic on July 29, 2005, 04:46:33 am: Quote
Originally posted by EtherShock
I had no idea England even got tornadoes.

That's the whole point. They're incredibly rare in Britain...
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: aldo_14 on July 29, 2005, 06:18:27 am: I can't remember a single tornado ever hitting a UK town (er, except this one).

I think there's been the odd very weak waterspout or soforth. But nothing that could ever damage property, let alone tear roofs off.
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: EtherShock on July 29, 2005, 08:40:55 am: Hopefully this is just an exception and not the beginning of a pattern.
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: WeatherOp on July 29, 2005, 09:26:04 am: Here is a faq I found about UK tornados. Looks about normal to me. Just that this one hit somewhere to cause damage

http://www.severewx.co.uk/tnfaq.htm (http://www.severewx.co.uk/tnfaq.htm)
Title: Tornado injures 19 in Birmingham
Post by: SadisticSid on July 30, 2005, 05:45:42 am: I was in town a good few miles away when it happened, no wind as such, but I've never seen rain like it; New Street became a river in about half a minute. Freaky.