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July 2015
Ten years ago this month on 28th
July 2005 shortly after 1:30pm a tornado struck
Birmingham causing extensive damage.
• Damage estimated at £40million.
• Rated T5/6i making it the strongest tornado since 1954. It hasn’t been equalled since.
• Track length of 11.7km from Kings Heath to Erdington.ii
• Maximum track width of 500m.
• There were a total of six tornadoes on this day as well as a supercell in
Cambridgeshire/Lincolnshire.iii
• Birmingham also had a weaker tornado (T2/3) on 12th
October 2005. The most recent
tornado to hit Birmingham was on 24th
May 2014 rated T1.
28th
July 2005 tornadoes. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right
2015
• There are an average of 36.5 tornadoes each year in the UK (47.2 if waterspouts are
included).iv
• Tornadoes occur all year round with a peak in August.
• Tornadoes occur right across the UK but are most common in eastern and southern England.
A comprehensive review of extreme weather in the UK and Ireland by TORRO will be published in a
new book in October 2015. See http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-
1118949951.html for more details.
Tornado and Storm Research Organisation
http://www.torro.org.uk
i http://www.torro.org.uk/site/tscale.php ii Kirk PJ. 2006.A Mammoth Task: The Site Investigation After the Birmingham Tornado 28 July 2005. Int. J.
Meteorology, 31: 255-260 iii Knightley P. 2006.Tornadogenesis Across England on 28 July 2005. Int. J. Meteorology, 31: 243-254
iv Kirk PJ. 2014. An Updated Tornado Climatology for the United Kingdom – 1981-2010. Weather, 69: 171-175
http://www.metlink.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/wea2247.pdf
Top right photo © Ian Dunsford, Birmingham City Council