was this a small twister?

JMSE

I took a few pics of this from the M9 around Bagenalstown in June, it was during a spell of fairly nasty squall.

What did I see? Dead ahead was a noticable weather system with a grey finger coming down about 1 quarter of the way to earth.

Mothman

Looks like a funnel cloud. How long did you observe it for?

What date?

M.T. Cranium

It has the appearance of being a funnel cloud, which is a weaker rotating cloud system than a tornado, often seen in relatively cool, moist unstable conditions. These rarely develop to the ground and if they do, might produce a localized F0 tornado doing the sort of damage where sheds are flipped over and loose objects blown around, a few shingles coming off roofs, branches off trees, etc.

However, if you recall the situation as being warm and humid, it could have been a developing landspout, the first stage of a tornado. Possibly it never developed beyond what you captured in those pictures.

JMSE

Great thanks for the interest.

The date attached to all 3 pics is 22/6/09. As I recall, it didnt develop further and those 3 pics were the best I could have got. As a driver I remember the weather at the time, was such that there was 1 or 2 of these systems in visibility somewhere on the horizon all that week, fairly rough when you were under them.

ccoyle

dont know much about twisters but i was out on a boat in lough erne enniskillen and we definately witnessd 1 in the distance . took a short video but wasnt visible on the vid . It looked very small but the funnel went from the clouds right down to the groud.

cc

Min

I witnessed several funnel clouds along a thunderstorm squall line that crossed the country about 5 or 6 years ago, later that night on BBC weather they reported a tornado from the same squall line in the Severn estuary.

Yeah that was a funnel cloud, a rare enough event to see around.