tornado

Daniel O Donnel

Was talking to my sister this evening on the outskirts of Letterkenny. There was a huge bank of dark cloud crossing over Inishowen direction.

We both noticed what looked like the tail of a tornado coming out of the bottom of the cloud. We laughed at the idea of a tornado then we talked a bit more and I would say about 10 seconds later we both looked and the tail was about 4 times as big.
I ran for my camera and about 20 seconds later as I returned my sister was shouting that it was gone:mad:
It was way down out of the cloud but was a long way off the ground.

Would it be possible it could have developed into a mini tornado?
This was about 6pm and heavy rain started shortly afterwards.

Redsunset

What you saw was called a funnel cloud.there fairly common in ireland.i took pic of one in my area few weeks ago.ment to post it up.

there fairly exciting to watch,with the hope of it touching ground to be called a tornado.

Rougies

Here's an interesting read relative to this thread...


http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/storm/tornadoes-europe.htm

Hal1

There not 'mini'.