{"id":278702,"date":"2025-07-21T01:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278702\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:02:47","slug":"bristol-tornado-sends-bins-and-roof-tiles-flying-as-met-office-explains-likely-reason-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278702\/","title":{"rendered":"Bristol ‘tornado’ sends bins and roof tiles flying as Met Office explains likely reason"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bristolians were left agog after witnessing a rare weather <\/a>phenomenon which is often described as a tornado. The Met Office has explained the likely cause of the unusual occurrence yesterday evening (Friday).<\/p>\n

Sam, a resident at the border of St George<\/a> and Hanham, said the “mini tornado” blew roof tiles off a neighbouring property while another elsewhere claimed bins and a bouncy castle went flying at a school event.<\/p>\n

Sam told Bristol Live: “I was in my lounge at around 7.30pm, trying to keep cool and was looking out of my bifold doors when I saw a bit of a breeze, trees moving, then it actually got quite windy.<\/p>\n

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“I’d just bought a new rose bush and it was still in its pot as I hadn’t planted it yet and it was really being blown about so I went out to move it. Then I saw my shade umbrella was up and thought ‘Oh my god, I’m going to have to get that down quickly or it’ll take that up as well’.<\/p>\n

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Repairs to a roof in St George were needed after the ‘mini tornado’ -Credit:submitted<\/p>\n

“It’s one of those ones that winds down and you have to duck under or your head gets stuck and by the time I’d done that I looked over that the houses behind my house and I could see something was wrong – tiles were disturbed along the roofs. My neighbour came out and he was saying there was no breeze at all then suddenly there was this really strong wind.”<\/p>\n

Referencing the infamous tornado in the Wizard of Oz, Sam remarked: “It was so strong I was thinking I’d be meeting the Tin Man and Lion at this rate and I’d need red shoes if I wanted to get home!”<\/p>\n

Another person contacted Bristol Live at a similar time claiming that a local primary school was “hit by a mini tornado”. They claimed the wind was powerful enough to move a bouncy castle as well as bins and parents were so fearful they grabbed their children lest they also be swept up.<\/p>\n

Though the incident was described as being like a tornado, a spokesperson for the Met Office said: “It is unlikely that it was a tornado as the weather<\/a> conditions weren\u2019t right yesterday afternoon\/evening.<\/p>\n

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“For a tornado to form you need deep\/severe convection, i.e. cumulonimbus clouds and thunderstorms.<\/p>\n

“However, this could have a been a dust devil, also called a Willy Willy – a short-lived spell of rotating winds, but much less powerful and destructive compared to tornadoes.<\/p>\n

You can find out more about dust devils and willy-willies here<\/a>. Did you see the ‘tornado’? Please email newsdesk@bristolpost.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bristolians were left agog after witnessing a rare weather phenomenon which is often described as a tornado. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,1142,104985,104987,104986,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-278702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-met-office","13":"tag-mini-tornado","14":"tag-neighbouring-property","15":"tag-roof-tiles","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114888533842896338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}