- The UK is struck by about 2.3 tornadoes per yr for each 10,000 sq. km
While the devastating energy of a huge twister is extra generally related to the huge open plains of the central US, in actuality you usually tend to expertise one on this nation.
The UK is struck by about 2.3 tornadoes per yr for each 10,000 sq. kilometres, in line with analysis – a better density than the US, which as an entire has simply 1.3 per 10,000 sq. km.
Typically they’re much smaller, thankfully – a small twister which swept by Littlehampton in October smashed partitions, moved parked automobiles and left one individual damage.
In July 2005, a big twister in Birmingham triggered £40million in damages and injured 39.
There have even been fatalities up to now – a powerful twister in South Wales in 1913 killed three.
While the devastating energy of a giant twister is extra generally related to the huge open plains of the central US, in actuality you usually tend to expertise one on this nation (pictured: Tameside)
The UK is struck by about 2.3 tornadoes per yr for each 10,000 sq. kilometres, in line with analysis – a better density than the US, which as an entire has simply 1.3 per 10,000 sq. km (pictured: Tameside)
A lacking roof uncovered a house’s bed room within the aftermath of a twister, after a monster storm system tore by the South and Midwest in April 2023
According to David Schultz, Professor of Synoptic Meteorology on the University of Manchester, the chance of being within the path of 1 is highest within the American states in ‘Tornado Alley’, comparable to Oklahoma (3.6 per 10,000 sq. km) or Kansas (11.2) (pictured: Tameside)
But he says a random location within the UK is extra prone to expertise a twister than a random location within the US (pictured: Tameside)
In some circumstances they happen in ‘outbreaks’ – comparable to November 23 1981, which produced 104 twister experiences from Anglesey to Norwich.
According to David Schultz, Professor of Synoptic Meteorology on the University of Manchester, the chance of being within the path of 1 is highest within the American states in ‘Tornado Alley’, comparable to Oklahoma (3.6 per 10,000 sq. km) or Kansas (11.2).
But he says a random location within the UK is extra prone to expertise a twister than a random location within the US.
Prof Schultz stated extra analysis is required on the causes of British tornados, which he says could also be under-reported as they can’t be detected by climate satellites.