DIDN’T notice it? No, nor did we but it seems that many people in Corringham did. Eagle-eyed twister watchers saw the tornado around saturday lunchtime above Corringham Town Centre.
There had been information from meterological sources that:
“As the surface, an unstable airmass will push WSW across the area in the wake of an old occluded front. Diurnal heating along with lift from the short-wave will allow showers and a few thunderstorms to develop across the area today. Deep-layer shear is rather weak, but some storm organisation into one or more small clusters make occur, mainly due to the forcing from the WSW’ward moving short-wave along with cold pool generation”.
There was clearly no cows or barns spun high into the air as Essex Police confirmed that they had no reports of any incidents.
A couple of photos taken of the tornado:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53122381@N08/