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Tornado in Lancashire and Merseyside

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Stormy weather across Lancashire and Merseyside has resulted in a funnel cloud forming in the sky.
The cloud, which is effectively a tornado which does not touch the ground, was spotted at about 1430 BST.
If the funnel had touched down it would have caused severe damage, a Met Office spokesman said.
Such clouds are formed when strong storms, often together with thunderstorms, amass where the wind blows in different directions.
'Excellent examples'
Nigel Bolton, a weather forecaster with the Met Office added: "We have about 30 to 40 touchdown tornadoes a year in the UK and if this funnel cloud had touched down it could have badly damaged a tree or a shed roof.
"However, because the cloud base was either too high or too weak it couldn't make the ground so it just hung there in suspension.

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In the UK they tend to be rain-wrapped so you don't see them but this one was forming under a cloud that wasn't yet raining
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Nigel Bolton, Met Office forecaster

"In the UK they are quite common but they are not generally as good as this - these photos are excellent examples of a funnel cloud as they do not usually tend to be so well formed.
"In the UK they tend to be rain-wrapped so you don't see them but this one was forming under a cloud that wasn't yet raining.
 
I recall in October 1983, camping in a field just above LLynau Mymbyr, near Capel Curig, seeing a "tornado" crossing the lake becoming a water spout, and eventually crossing the field we were camping in, up-rooting the dozen or so tents on its' way - we ended up sleeping in my Ford Escort :lol::lol:
 
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