UK Supercell Chase
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2012
- Supercell thunderstorms are a rarity in the UK and so when three come along at once, it's an almost once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
On 28th June 2012, a Spanish Plume combined with a sharpening trough to create a combination of high wind shear and large amounts of instability (over 2000J/kg CAPE) - such a combination is very rare in the UK. The supercells formed in the UK Midlands and travelled into north-east England, during which time there was copious flooding, golfball to baseball sized hail and a couple of impressive tornadoes.
Our chase was a little disappointing in that we managed to miss most of these extreme weather aspects but we did get to glimpse classic supercell thunderstorm structure with wall clouds, RFD signatures and impressively rotating mesocyclones. Tagging along on the chase was a first time chaser, excitable Welsh girl who you'll hear plenty of in the video. Apologies for some of the language used in the video as well..... the heat of the chase is our explanation.
Music is used in timelapse sections (much to some people's distaste but it's better than silence). Tracks are Chase&Status - "Flashing Lights", and "Daft Punk - Tron: Encom Part II".
A BBC report about the day's storms:
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At 6:44, it looks just like chasing in Oklahoma or Kansas with that flat, open landscape and ominous dark cloud on the horizon. The English don't get the monster tornadoes like we do here in the United States, but a typical Englishman has a much better chance of seeing a tornado at least once in their lifetime. The British Isles get more tornadic activity per square mile than just about anywhere else in the world.
I've lived in Texas since 61, and that is a pretty ominous looking super cell. Time to hide in the bath tub. LOL
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Oh yes we can... and do... and have even had a couple of F4/5 tornadoes in the past. Only reason why your tornadoes seem to be worse is because a majority of houses in the US are made of wood (and we all know what tornadoes do to wood).
martyfan11 Well no, the reason our tornadoes seem to be worse is because the are. Typical English tornadoes seldom exceed EF-1, and rarely EF-2 like the Birmingham tornado. That's not to say the UK hasn't had worse storms in the past, recorded history suggests they have. It's just that you'll probably never ever see 315 MPH winds in the UK like we had in Oklahoma City....36" wide steel building girders grotesquely twisted like warm taffy. Nor will you see mile wide diameter funnels, so dark and low that it turns day into night. And all these things happen often in our Midwest and Southern states. When a tornado gets up into the strong EF-3 to EF-5 range, it really doesn't matter what a structure is made of. An EF-5 will sweep a masonry structure right off it's foundation, brick and all, just like it can heave loaded railcars like matchbox toys. The only safe place from storms such as these is to be completely below ground in a hardened shelter, or hope and pray to God the storm avoids you altogether.
That's because a majority of ours form from a cold front instead of a supercell, although we can and do get supercell tornadoes. There was a T8 tornado in London, and in the 19th century, there was one in Portsmouth. Note that I'm using what is known as the Torro Scale, which rates tornadoes from T0 (low-end EF0) to T11 (high-end EF5), and T8 is a low-end EF4.
We do.
2:38 you can see a tornado trying to form on the left side of the wall cloud
I remember this day so well. I was walking to work in Wolverhampton and everything got eerily quiet. The birds has stopped singing. Then it got darker and darker and really breezy.
I just made it to my office and all hell broke loose. The trees in our car park were horizonal because of the winds and the road outside turned into a river.
Anyhow the accounts department's ceiling fell in because of the deluge and we all got sent home for the day.
6:00 amazing capture of a tornado funnel forming well done ✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
AH I spend hours watching the big storms and tornados in the States. This is pretty impressive for the UK to be fair, our storms are not in the same leagues as theirs but when we get a good one, they're pretty cool. Nice video guys - I've subscribed :D
Probably the best thunderstorm day the UK has seen over the past 5/6 years, hope for some more this summer!
I'd LOVE to this! I live in the UK and to see a supercell / tornado IS MY DREAM!
Black&White Cat! I live in the UK, too. We actually get more tornadoes per square mile than anywhere else, so the possibility of seeing one is actually higher than most people think. It's a shame because most of the tornadoes that actually form in the UK don't get reported, so they are never on the news. For example, I didn't even hear about these three supercells that formed!
been under a supercell in uk caused a few deaths down in plymouth due to drivers being unable to cope with road conditions that rapidly changed when 4 inches of hail fell in 40 mins also seen a few funnels out over the sea down here i used to live in the area this is filmed and spend alot of my childhod riding a pushbike around there from memory i can pinpoint the exsact location all the early footage was taken from around bottesford
I live indonesia and i always see a supercell with no tornado :(
That updraught footage in the middle and then the rotation later is incredible, thanks for this.
I love that!! Chasing super storm for fun but got scared overtaking the lorry 😂😂 perfectly british 👌🤟😂
Beautiful structure. It's like watching an American stormchase
Ha! If only England was quite so idyllic! As for the storms though, they were a once in ten years sort of event, so we might not get anything quite that exciting for a while :)
not neserssery coz we get at least 2 severe thunderstorms a year in the uk
Does anyone know that the first ever thunderstorm to be identified as the classification of a "supercell" was the Woking storm of 1957 in the UK.
yep
That's fascinating,
Wow
Nice footage guys. Very rare to see an actual classic supercell in the UK. Much harder to chase as well due to our tiny busy roads and much vegetation!
Love this vid, 28th June 2012 is the benchmark for UK storms
Hey from the US and love the weather. you guys should come and see the shit out in the Midwest during April Thru June. Didn't know that existed out there in the UK. Nice video bub!
I see lots of these supercells up north. Not many at all turn into something but they sure are freaky to look at
There really should be more videos like this on youtube - the uk gets at least one good storm chasing opportunity every summer but i never see any footage apart from clips and home videos. I'm planning to do so myself this summer and document the footage - any tips for uk chasing?
Probably because we see at as just another storm lol. All the rain makes us less appreciative
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Look on radars and try to find out where most uk tornadoes are spotted
I know you aren't a meteorologist but learning basic tornado forecasting and using weather models goes a long way. I don't think your gonna get those type of supercells often tho. Greetings from Kansas and we welcome you UK chasers to chase the US rondo season!
@@StephenMadorin my brother is a meteorologist and started becoming interested by doing exactly what you just said when he was young. i’m sure there’s lots of younger meteorologists in their mid-late 20s that were inspired by storm chasers like he was lol
This would have gone over where I live in Leicestershire if i lived there in 2012
1:04 Beautiful meso right there
Damn I remember this I was in school when it struck, absolutely awesome.
I live in Hinckley, Leicestershire and the cell crossed straight across us! The power was amazing! Everybody who lives local remembers the huge hail and the damage it caused.
I saw the one in Oxfordshire last year. The lightning and hail was intense. Good video mate.
I remember this storm like it was yesterday. It went from midday to midnight-looking in about 5 minutes, not even an exaggeration. We had golf-ball-sized hailstones and ice sheets in Hinckley, a CONSTANT rumble of thunder, visible lightning every 2-3 seconds. The odd thing is that it barely even rained, it was pure hail. I'd love to see a storm like that again, especially with the abundance of storms in the East-Midlands in the last few months, but I think I'd probably shit a brick of I did.
8 years on and i still find myself coming back to witness the amasing video filmed in basicly my old back yard lol first 5mins of the video i could drop pins on google maps for locations i no it that well lol
Great vid. We got hit by the Tornado, I'm gutted I don't have footage (plenty of the damage it did though!) as we didn't know it was gonna happen and only lasted a couple minutes. Would've made amazing footage from inside it! Feel pretty unlucky as we were the only house hit in that particular area (we don't have close neighbours)- 100m wide tornado and our house right in the middle of it! It ripped up so many huge trees in the countryside and blew our greenhouse to bits and a big shed destroyed before it went on to cause damage in the next village. Our whole house was shaking, very scary. Never known anything like it.
Wow and what area or county of the uk did this happen in!??? 😱😱
What a truly spectacular production! This really highlights how exciting a UK chase can be. Very well done : )
how things have changed in 2020. what would have been rare in 2012 , is becoming more common now. i enjoyed the video very much.
Beautiful thunderstorm! There with you,in the United Kingdom, the storms I guess aren't too common phenomenon, particularly aren't so strong as that on this film
Some awesome tunes playing on this mate! Love Chase & Status And Daft punk's tron legacy album!
I used this music background for my weather videos especially my new thunderstorm video 😉😉
Thank-you very much. You're very kind. A supercell chase in the UK is almost unheard of and really rare (although there was one in Oxfordshire a couple of months ago). We felt very lucky indeed to get the chance to see them!
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You don't realise how flat and expansive Lincolshire is compared to the rest of the UK... as the top comment says it does look like tornado alley at points
Great footage :)
nice work :D WAS BIG SUPPER CELL OVER BRISTOL over last fue days did not turn in to much my end fue tornadoes in wales
The rotation is amazing in both the cells!
Better than anything I got here in SE Australia this past season, well done!
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Zhalo, what have you done!? (Geddit? Zhalo Supercell)
It was a shame you wasnt about the south east essex on the 28th there was a tornado on the edge of braintree , ive watch about tornado's / thunderstorms since i was 8 i love em , you should come along to america im going there to see it all happen before my eyes :) would be a laugh
Wow, grew up in this area so this is very interesting!
I keep on watching, because its such a nice sight :) Do love the TRON Legacy soundtracks :) I love TRON Legacy, im trying to make a game of it
Awesome video! Hopefully this becomes common in the UK! Great tracks too!
I think as the climate changes England will get more severe and stronger tornadoes and supercells
Nah.
Wow!! This is amazing video :) Good job
I realize this was a rare event, but how often would you say the U.K. experiences supercells?
Maybe a couple of isolated ones every year
5:03 did the car starts sliding then? Great footage by the way!
well considering that was filmed in quaint peaceful jolly old England where the only threat normally to your safety is a word incorrectly spoken causing horror and great displeasure to all , shows how well you guys did so good on you makes me want to watch the skies more
Car name??
Love to join you on the chase one day. Excellent video and production.
Enjoying your vids. What camera do you use to record with?. It looks analogue
very good chase you did there just some mistakes which luckily in the uk are not to risky, you kept core jumping. Not safe even in a car with a low EF tornado is not safe. but you got to see what even a lot of American amateur chasers don't, you got the RFD, the updraft, in inflow notch, and if I saw correct I could even see the tail
They weren't mistakes - as you said, we were in the UK so it was highly unlikely we'd run into too much trouble. We'd not make the same moves when out chasing in the Plains.
Great timelapse! :D
Great video!
was that the one in august? I was on holiday and the news reported funnel cloud sightings on my birthday.
was this the same supercell that produced quite a large tornado, very rare for uk standards, but luckily it went through rural areas, I swear I heard about it on BBC news at the time??
I liked the music.
Great video
This is my favourite song
this is nice and exciting, as most of the time it's just grey and nothing ever happens xD
great video
Excellent...
I drive on the other side on the right
where you from?
@@foremostfool5719 hopefully the lack of reply is due to user inactivity and not because her answer was in fact, 'the UK'
@@rowgli LOL
The steering wheel is wrongly placed!
Next few days could be fun!!!
where about in the uk do you live because i am a storm chaser, and i travel very far to get some storms, rotation, hail and thunderstorms.
my uncle lives down there and he saw the rotations in the cloud so he Skyped me to show me and stuff and I picked up just as it wqs touching down and he literally pissed himself.
these r very common in pakistan,,,,in the summer's afternoons,,,they used to come daily,,,and some time day turns to night,,moreover usually with high windspeed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Yes I remember the one in sparkhill
try brighton or southampton because they have the most tornadoes a year.
I think 1,2 or 3 times a year.
Watched this a few times, much kudos, well chased, well edited, cracking sound track to it.. Would love for you to talk about it on our facebook group? MetWeatherUK......Keep it up guys..... I was on the receiving end of a monster squall line that swept across the country on the same day. North east UK got a good hiding...
thats in the uk-
oh hell na
Where did you Go to get that radar,.
damn i used to live in bottesford thats anoying how i used to live inan area ive seen it several vids of chasing in the uk :(
@brenpebbs Hi, I'm new to your channel. I have 100's of pictures of the exact same clouds. Where my parents live they have had a jetstream of perculiar black clouds between the months of May - September.
Hello, I am a tornado enthusiast who wants to move to Britain. Well, I was wondering; Which parts of Britain have the most tornadoes and strong storms?
The UK's tornado alley sort of place is from north london to birmingham, and then Leicestershire to Manchester
There's a shit-fly at 38 seconds whoever filmed this must have been having a poo
Hi, please check your inbox, I've left you a message about a Channel 4 documentary re: the weather in the UK in 2012. would really appreciate the chance to talk to you and maybe pay to use your footage.
Nick - Darlow Smithson Productions
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FLY! 00:37
This clealy is not bottesford lincolnshire, try bottesford leicestershire.
Yes you are correct. We were just over the border in Lincs for most of this storm chase although, for some of that time, Bottesford was our nearest town, even though we were across the border.
2012 No
2013 NOPER DOPER
2014 REEEEEEE NEVER
2015 NEVAAAAA
2016 DONT ASK
2017 HAHAHAHAHAHA no
2018 NOOOOOOOOOOOOOFHCJCHDHCJC
2019 yeah here you go
its not like its oklahoma now is it chaps
Didn't suggest it was!
i know you never im sorry just saying, thank you for sharing, its good to know people are out there doing what you do hope i didnt offend you
knotty ash No offence taken :)
Toronto's in the UK? What? I thought it only happened in the states.
If that was more bigger it'd bring up a tornado!
It brang up multiple tornadoes, the strongest of which was an EF 2
There's absolutely nothing funny about looking out of the window and seeing the clouds doing strange things like this. I once saw a minor super cell over my house, Nothing happened, but it scare the crap out of me.
its not funny, but it is fun, at least I find it to be a bit of a rush.
Naaaw naaaw, UK never gets a real tornado, cause they think a flat-6 supercell can produce enough downwind... still better than tornados in europe, all they got there is an ecoboost dark clouds.
"Teh reel pawah of a nat'uure" still goes to the Yanks.
We had An EF3 in 2005. Pretty sure that counts as a "real tornado" It hit Birmingham.
The music completely ruined the video. You watch thunder storms to hear the thunder not bloody music. Shame!
surely this is fake coz I live in England and this never happened we have never had tornadoes except like 30 second small ones.
We have more per square mile than any other country but the netherlands. And they mostly are in the countryside. Apart from the Birmingham tornado of 2005 and a load of others and this certainly is real