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Just before midnight on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, a tornado impacted the Isle of Jersey in the Channel Islands, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom. [1] Associated with powerful extratropical cyclone Storm Ciaran, the tornado was subsequently rated T6 on the TORRO scale or IF3 on the International Fujita Scale, which is broadly analogous to the Enhanced Fujita Scale commonly used in ...
According to the Met Office, around 30 tornadoes hit the UK every year, though most are small and dissipate without causing significant damage. [1] Several tornadoes have struck the city of Birmingham. A T6/F3 tornado struck the city in 1931, killing one woman and severely damaging hundreds of houses. [2]
10 F1 tornadoes and 1 F2 tornado were confirmed on that day across the United Kingdom (7), France (3) and Belgium (2). A strong F1 struck the town of Nuneaton , seriously damaging 5 houses, then an F2 tornado struck the cities of Reke, Halluin and Rekkem, with a path of 12.8 km, injuring 3 people and damaging several buildings.
A number of weather warnings, including two amber wind alerts, are in place.
UK tornado outbreak: Series on tornados on 27 October, particularly in England and Wales. This day was the only known time in British history where two tornados exceeded F3 on the Fujita scale. One tornado in Edwardsville, Merthyr Tydfil, resulted in hundreds of injuries and six deaths and is the deadliest-known tornado to occur in the UK. The ...
The 2011 Super Outbreak was the largest tornado outbreak spawned by a single weather system in recorded history; it produced 367 tornadoes from April 25–28, with 223 of those in a single 24-hour period on April 27 from midnight to midnight CDT, [5] [12] fifteen of which were violent EF4–EF5 tornadoes. 348 deaths occurred in that outbreak, of which 324 were tornado related.
1913 United Kingdom tornado outbreak; Tornadoes of 1946; 1981 United Kingdom tornado outbreak; 2005 Birmingham tornado; 2006 London tornado; B. Birmingham tornado; F ...
The Moore, Oklahoma tornado of May 20, 2013, is the most recent tornado to be rated EF5 as of 2025. The Xenia, Ohio, F5 tornado of April 3, 1974.This was one of two tornadoes to receive a preliminary rating of F6, which was downgraded later to a rating of F5.