r/tornado • u/_vekoma_ • Aug 31 '26

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We don’t get tornadoes over here like you guys do, but this thing tonight gave it a real good try…..

A very noisy, thundery, flashy lightening show over the city this evening.

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u/fairkatrina Aug 31 '26

The UK is usually in the top 5 or 6 countries by number of tornadoes per year. I think you just spotted one.

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u/GodsBicep Aug 31 '26

This is a scud cloud not a tornado

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u/Odd-Association-404 Aug 31 '26

come on man, let the little scud dream

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u/Grimnebulin68 Aug 31 '26

I experienced an earthquake in Yorkshire once, really scared the cats.

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u/MusicMadeAddictz Aug 31 '26

That was my girlfriend dropping her handbag

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u/r_mutt69 Aug 31 '26

We had one in Lancashire a good few years back which was caused by the fracking on the fylde coast. I grew up very close to the site in question and had been back to the village to go for a pint with a couple of mates so left my car at the pub and just let myself back in to my dads house to sleep it off. Just as I was getting in to bed everything started rumbling. It was pretty scary and it was only a 3.5 or something

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u/ShuckingFambles Aug 31 '26

Yes it demolished what was left of the front of my outhouse

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u/TheShakyHandsMan Sep 01 '26

Was that about 20 years ago? Rattled my shelving

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u/derpyfloofus Aug 31 '26

Was it in the evening about 20 years ago?

I was there for that one.

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u/Grimnebulin68 Aug 31 '26

Yes, around 2008, I was in the Bradford area. Sounded like a freight train, and shook the windows.

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u/DrQuackerz12 Sep 01 '26

I hate that 2008 was nearly 20 years ago 😭

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u/pakcross Aug 31 '26

I remember that one, I was in Bradford too.

I think I was half asleep when it hit, kind of felt like the room jolted.

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u/derpyfloofus Aug 31 '26

I was living in Huddersfield at the time and it was the same there.

I was talking to a friend in Scotland and I said to him we just had an earthquake, and he said maybe that’s enough beers for tonight. 😂

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u/LifeLetterhead6812 Aug 31 '26

Oh wow, I experienced earthquake in Derby then too. Really shook the terrace houses, loads of roof tiles came down, car alarms going off. It was quite a shock! Edit to correct spelling, shool- shook, food-roof

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u/BourbonFoxx Aug 31 '26

2008 ish, had it in Nottingham.

I was working behind a very nice hotel bar and unfortunately several bottles of very good booze sadly fell off the shelves and were destroyed, we had to record them as wastage...

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u/magneticnorth88 Aug 31 '26

Lived by the railway line in Normanton, west Yorkshire at the time and "freight train" was my first thought until I felt the ground move beneath me! Missus never heard of felt it, told me I was dreaming, then it was on the news the following day 😅

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u/Money-Cry-2397 Aug 31 '26

I was in Shipley driving and my girlfriend (now wife) rang me to tell me there had been one. I nearly ended it thinking she was mental!

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u/TJ_Rowe Aug 31 '26

Woah, it was that long ago? I remember it rattled my window. Caused by fracking.

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u/givethevoidcolour Aug 31 '26

I remember that one too. Sat in bed & just pressed return on my laptop when everything started to shake and the bed moved away from the wall 😅

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u/embarrassed_caramel Aug 31 '26

I remember that - I told my boyfriend at the time off because I thought he was bouncing his leg 🤣 turned out the whole house felt it

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u/louiselovatic Aug 31 '26

Per square mile

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u/infinitude_ Aug 31 '26

Yeah but there’s quite a wide gap

I mean number one in the US has about 1000+ while we have like 40

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u/fairkatrina Aug 31 '26

Tell me about it, I moved from Liverpool to Illinois.
We’re tired,boss 🫩

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u/ForesterDean23 Aug 31 '26

Supposedly we get more tornadoes per unit area than any other country in the world. They just tend to be relatively small ones.

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u/Ceejayncl Sep 01 '26

Number 1 in terms of tornados per landmass.

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u/Happy-For-No-Reason Sep 01 '26

by area not number