UK Mesocyclonic Tornado - 22 September 2024 скачать в хорошем качестве

UK Mesocyclonic Tornado - 22 September 2024

Thunderstorms were expected to develop on Sunday afternoon across areas of central-southern England - but here in Bedford, I got slightly more than that. At 4pm a very peculiar cumulus tower approached my SE, and just by staring at it for ten seconds it looked like it had a rotating updraft. This prompted me to film a timelapse which is featured at the start of the video. As it moved west I started to see rapidly rising/rotating scud from the mesocyclone, and I believe this was a brief spin-up that occurred around the Luton area as the timings seemed to match. This scud lasted for about a minute but I was gradually getting a better visual of the meso as it continued its westward trajectory passing to my south, and only then a few minutes after that it dropped a condensation funnel that very likely made ground contact at 4:20pm BST. This matches with another report of a tornado crossing the M1 motorway near Flitwick at roughly the same time. I was unable to get much footage of the funnel as it was moving further away and trees were hindering my view but rotation was clearly evident. This makes it the first tornado I've ever witnessed in person despite being quite far away from it.