PHOTOS OF TORNADO

[redsun]

Hi Everyone,

Here are some photos taken from the beach in Arillas two weeks ago of the tornado.

Hayley x

[Dave n Anne]

Hi all

We were on the island of Sifnos about 6 years ago when we had a mini tornado , one minute it was all fine the next I was having to hold all the beds and towels down to stop them being blown away . Very weird feeling as it passed over as you could feel the calm in the middle of it and then it picked up again as the other side went by . I look back now and think what a great experience it was ( not at the time though ).

Yammas

Dave n Anne

[TerryW]

It doesn't look like a tornado because its shape is too uniform. Tornados are more spiral with a trailing point that narrows as it reaches the  earth. I think that the photos show a very heavy rain storm within a deep depression.

But, I could be wrong, as was Michael Fish 20 years ago last week.

[kevin.g]

well what ever it was ,thanks for getting on the forum ,great snaps

[JustL@@KiN]

A waterspout is an intense columnar vortex (usually appearing as a funnel-shaped cloud) that occurs over a body of water and is connected to a cumuliform cloud. In the common form, it is a nonsupercell tornado over water, and brings the water upward. Also, it is weaker than most of its land counterparts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterspout

[alex]

i was there when this happened it was a fantastic sight and got wider, i thin these photos were at the begining when it started. towards the end of this you could see the water been sucked upinto it. alex

[Baldy Barry]

Great pic's Redsun !
Wish I could have seen it live !

[Marika]

Wow! Yes it was an Tornado!
I saw one in the summer 2002 from San Stefano!
It passed very near Mathraki and a good friend of mine was with the boat out.


Shot at 2007-10-23

[vivian]

Fantastic shot's, Pete just keeps saying I wish I had been there with my camera. Viv

[riggers]

hopefully this is image of last weeks tornado

[riggers]

don,t know where i went wrong. LEARNER....

[chorltonfiona]

I particularly like the third picture which has people in it - wandering casually along, oblivious!  Maybe they aren't usually a problem, my only experience of tornados is watching the Wizard of Oz, so maybe there's less need to panic than you might think!

Fiona

[riggers]

[riggers]

time to give up. will have to call in the professionals...riggers...

[riggers]