This picture, taken by Steph Bosson close to Oxford Square, shows the cloud
In the footage, sent in by Ian Punchard, a man can be heard saying: "What is it?"
Another says it's a tornado, before the voice adds: "That cloud there just started funneling. It's coming down and down and down, I'm telling you. You can see the cloud spinning as well."
It appears to be a funnel cloud which, according to the Met Office, are 'cone-shaped clouds which extend from the base of a cloud towards the ground without actually reaching the surface'.
In the UK, they often look like thin dangling bits of rope, the forecaster said, and tend to be harmless.
However, in hotspots like tornado alley in the USA, they can be thicker and much more intense. They are classed as tornadoes - or twisters - if they reach the ground.
Comment: The accepted difference between a funnel cloud and a tornado is that a tornado actually makes contact with the ground, and in this video, regardless of the strength of the wind speeds, it appears to touchdown, therefore it would likely be classified as a tornado.
Tornadoes, snownadoes, firenadoes, and other wind vortices, appear to be on the increase and in conditions that do not correlate with the accepted view of how they form, see:
- Winter tornado sighted on a snowy hill in Brixham, UK (VIDEO)
- Rare snownado filmed at national park in Poland
- Huge steam vortices filmed above Hawaii's Kilauea volcano
- Amazed residents film tornado touch down in Var, France
- Rare winter tornado tears a path of destruction through Uniontown, Pennsylvania (PHOTOS)
- Powerful tornado hits Caserta, southern Italy (VIDEOS)
- Rare tornado touches down in Carinthia, Austria
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