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Ready-prepared articles on tornadoes and whirlwinds

• 980110 The Selsey Tornado Whatever next … an earthquake, perhaps? Or a plague of locusts? The good burghers of Selsey must be wondering what on earth they have done
• 000520 The Bedfordshire Tornado of 1950 Tornadoes never happen in Britain; reports in the press are either exaggerations or just figments of the imagination brought on by the stress
• 010331 British tornadoes, an overview It is only in recent decades that British meteoro-logists have acknowledged that the UK has a sizeable crop of tornadoes every year, although
• 020518 The Tibshelf (Derbys) tornado Tibshelf, an unassuming Derbyshire mining village some sixteen miles north of Derby and six miles west of Mansfield, hit the headlines exactly
• 021025 Funnel clouds The disturbed weather earlier this week brought a concoction of rain, snow, hail and thunder, and there were even a few reports of funnel clouds seen of the coast
• 040117 Cardiff waterspout, Jan ’04 Arguably the best meteorological photo-opportunity in Britain in January 2004 was provided by a vigorous waterspout off the Glamorgan coast, not
• 990411 USA’s most tornadoes in a day Thirty years ago, on 3rd and 4th April 1974, the USA suffered its greatest ever outbreak of tornadoes. In the space of just twelve hours,
• 990509 How to survive a tornado I would certainly invest in a tornado cellar if I lived in Oklahoma City. I was amazed to learn that fewer than 25 per cent of the residents of that city
• 990711 Tornadoes in the Midlands, 1999 On the 5th of July 1999 there was a small clutch of tornadoes in the English Midlands – one in Rugely, one in Cannock, and one in Selly Oak.
• 9705xx May 1997, a crop of tornadoes A mid-month thundery episode which brought several local falls of ‘giant’ hailstones and a number of small tornadoes will form the one