Tornado on Barrack Street?

the beer revolu · 23-03-2023 1:58pm #1

Clean up efforts underway after 'freak high winds' caused havoc on Cork city street https://jrnl.ie/6026555

Sounds like a tornado may have hit Barrack Street. Wind in the north side of the city centre didn't seem extreme, at all.

I wonder are there any videos?

thomil · 23-03-2023 2:31pm

Cork Beo has some stuff:

Cork city street closed off as 'mini tornado' tears through it leaving trail of destruction - Cork Beo

Given the tightly limited area that was affected, this smells more like a microburst to me than a proper tornado. These microbursts are created when a column of air inside a thunderstorm cloud descends rapidly, and wind speeds inside a microburst can reach up to 240 km/h, similar to a weak tornado.