Event details
Tornado · Confirmed
Croyde
19.01.2012 · Croyde · United Kingdom
Media
0
Sources & links
4
Damages
0
Chasing
0
Radar/Satellite
0
Coordinates
available
Injured
0
Fatalities
0
Description
No description has been added yet.
Technical details
- Extent
- 100
- Type in legacy database
- Tornado
- Intensity estimate
- Unknown
- Source type
- Website
- Uncertainty / doubt
- No
- Land use at start
- Sea
- Land use at end
- Sea
- Surface / terrain
- Water
- Funnel observed
- Yes
- Other weather phenomena
- None
- Injured
- 0
- Fatalities
- 0
- Area
- Flat
- Continent
- Europe
Sources and further links
4 entries
Source
2
Link
1
Info
1
Info
Info
A waterspout off the coast of Devon has been caught on camera by the crew of an RAF search and rescue helicopter from RMB Chivenor. It was spotted by the crew on Thursday at Baggy Point near Croyde. A waterspout - described as being like a tornado over water - is formed when there is a big variation in sea and air temperatures. Although it appears like a column of water, it is actually a cone-like point of cloud. David Braine, BBC South Wests weather presenter, said with recent sea temperatures of 11C, air temperatures of 13 to 14C and plenty of cumulonimbus cloud, conditions were right for the formation of the funnel-shaped waterspout. A waterspout needs a parent cloud of cumulonimbus to form, but they are not that uncommon, he said. It is like a tornado over water, but it is extremely rare for it to travel from sea to land.
Key facts
- Date
- 19.01.2012
- Time
- 12:42:00
- Location
- Croyde
- Region
- -
- Country
- United Kingdom
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