Shrimpsvoices

Not actually a tornado, more a funnel

Went on an airport run late last night, as soon as I hit the M60 it started bucketing down. Typical eh

It is effectively a tornado, just that it didnt tuch down on the ground
Apparently were quite lucky to have seen them because if they had formed on a storm system which was raining we wouldnt have been able to see it!!
When I found out there were Tornado's in the Lancashire area I was gutted, its a life long ambition to witness a Tornado, and not see soo it was quite dissapointing!

yes it would have been a tornado if it had touched the ground but it didnt

Does it have to touch ground?

I remember as a youngest, being driven around the Lakes and seeing one of these lifting up the water on a reservoir.

The one with the sunken village when they flooded the valley

I can't recall it's name.

morecambe mick wrote:The one with the sunken village when they flooded the valley

I can't recall it's name.

The village of Mardale in the Lake District disappeared when the Haweswater valley was flooded in 1935.

According to the TV this morning, it has to touch ground to be a Tornado. If it doesn't touch ground, as was the case yesterday, it's a Funnel. If you mean does Ground = Water, we'll let you have that one

I knew some old timer would come on with the answer!



Cheers

Have sent a request in to Radio East Lancs for you

Phoenix wrote:According to the TV this morning, it has to touch ground to be a Tornado. If it doesn't touch ground, as was the case yesterday, it's a Funnel. If you mean does Ground = Water, we'll let you have that one

It must of been very close to the ground as well , on North West Tonight somebodys washing line with clothes had been sucked up, that must of been a bit of a shock when they went out to bring it in. Although why somebody had put a line of washing out yesterday is anybodys guess ?

The lightening across the bay on Saturday, about tea-time,was forking awesome!

on North West Tonight somebodys washing line with clothes had been sucked up,

That was no funnel, that was Aspers

http://www.thevisitor.co.uk/morecambe-news/It39s-a-twister.1076208.jp

From a few years back.

we used to have a "cyclone" on the fairground didnt we shrimper?

Shrimpsscene wrote:we used to have a "cyclone" on the fairground didnt we shrimper?

Big-Dipper.

Yes we did - and what did it become when the Morecambe Pleasure Park changed its name to 'Frontierland'??

Texas Tornado?

backwards ... if you were stupid enough to ride it

Harry wrote: Texas Tornado

Phoenix wrote:backwards ... if you were stupid enough to ride it

Tornado Texas

Surely not Brian

You can't possibly mean, saxeT odanroT

Harry wrote:Texas Tornado?

Aye, lad.

(Though I always called it the Cyclone - I don't like change, me).