Tornado in Leitrim

Ozeire

Hey all

I know this sounds mad but its true . I was going home yesterday evening and seen in the sky in front of me a Tornado forming . It never touched down but still looks pretty cool








Anyone else seen any Tornado's in Ireland ?

Al

Danno

Savage photos - have you informed Met Eireann?

maquiladora

Ok, now that I look at the rest of the pics...hmmmm...doesnt look like a mini twister when I see the wider pics. But still, nice feature to capture.

Ozeire

So it was a Funnel cloud


Email from John



I was very pleased that you forwarded the email onto your friend. I assume
this was Ronan, who then contacted me with another set of photos. Between
you both you have provided an excellent record of the event and I think a
lot of detail has become clear as a result. A quick look at a variety of
data sources suggest that the funnel cloud appears to have formed ahead of a
cold front that was close to the NW coast near Sligo Bay and at the
underside edge of a strong 'jet stream' at about 10,000 ft or so. That would
have been in the upper part of the cloud you show in the photo, or just
above it. Below it, the different wind direction and slower wind speed set
up classical conditions for a spinning vortex, which on this occasion span
beneath the cloud and appeared as a funnel cloud.

That's terrific information - many thanks. In putting it into the Irish data
base of such events I have put your name, together with that of Ronan, as
the matching eyewitnesses. Normally to confirm an event I would hope to get
at least two who saw the event independently. Thanks to you passing on the
information to Ronan that is achieved in this case.

Don't hesitate to get in touch if you see a similar event in the near
future.

Best wishes,

John.

Dr John Tyrrell, Department of Geography, National University of Ireland, Cork
Email: j.tyrrell@ucc.ie
Tel: 353-21-4902517

http://www.torro.org.uk

roniirl

I saw a funnel cloud weekend before last. I was travelling on the N71 just coming up and down the hill before the turn off for Ballinhassig (where the climbing lanes are) and I could see the cloud around the Ballinhassig village area. It never touched down and was probably only down for about 30sec. I didn't get a chance to get a photo.
Cool to see though.

Sponge Bob

I have often seen them

Takeshi_Kovacs

Nice one to catch those with the camera. I remember seeing a waterspout race across Dingle Bay one time, and seeing quite a few whizz, across the two lakes next to Carrauntuohil on a windy day.

monster1

i spotted a tornado near castlerea in roscommon on wednesday, i got 12 pics of it on my digital camera and two vids of it on my phone, i got pics of when it started to come down from the cloud to when it touched down, it was about 4-5 miles away, looked pretty big. tried uploading a pic there but i have dial up and is taken way to long to upload a pic, i will upload them from my friends house, he has broadband.

MooseJam

tornadoes kick ass