Tornado and hail move through Oxfordshire, UK

May 9, 2012 – UK - Britain could be braced for more thunder and lightning following a storm which brought a tornado to Oxfordshire. The thunderstorm started in Wiltshire, and moved across Oxfordshire, where a tornado was reported in several places including Bicester, Eynsham and Witney, and then moved to Buckinghamshire. Richard Glazer drove through the tornado with his wife and son on the A34 near Kidlington, Oxfordshire. “It was very wet, we were just driving on the A34 and looked up and realized one part of the sky was moving in one direction and another in the opposite direction,” he said. I thought, ‘that looks like a tornado!’ We pretty much drove through it, we were right underneath it. Forecasters said it was almost certainly a tornado. Heavy rain has been predicted for much of the country in the coming week, with the possibility of thunder and lightning. Brendan Jones, a forecaster at MeteoGroup, said he believed the tornado was caused a by ‘supercell,’ a type of storm more commonly seen in the US in which the air inside is spinning or rotating. Mr Jones said: “It’s going to remain unsettled, there will be rain and showers around and there is a definite chance of more thunderstorm activity. “This particular thunderstorm developed over the northern part of Wiltshire, and then gradually over the next three hours that storm tracked through Oxfordshire and into part of Buckinghamshire before eventually dying out before it got to Cambridgeshire.” –Telegraph

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