A Shropshire man today spoke of his amazement at seeing a 1,500ft “tornado” sweeping across the county during the weekend’s stormy weather.
Steve Groves saw the freak weather system from his home in Broseley on Saturday at about 5pm and believes it hit the Ironbridge area.
He said: “I watched the rotation get faster and faster and then I could see wisps of cloud towards Ironbridge.”
Meanwhile, Shropshire and Mid Wales are set for another week of “atrocious” weather with more torrential rain, thunder and lightning.
John Warner, Shropshire Star weatherman, says it will get worse before it gets better.
He said: “By Saturday, we could be in for drier weather, but before then, it is going to be a pretty atrocious week.”
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Welcome to the summer!
Quick thought ~ why is it stonkingly hot in Kent?
The tornado in question was a weak afair but dramatic nevertheleless. I was in my garden in the gorge on saturday afternoon when out of the blue a tremendous wind came out of nowhere, I looked up and saw what appeared to be a vortex of low cloud circling. I shouted “tornado” to my two sons who promtly ignored me thinking I was joking. The fornt house door blew open and in came a robin-obviously blown off course. I guess it (the tornado )lost momentum before it grew into a more impressive specimen.
How did he measure it? Surely he should have used metres though.