"Development of a funnel cloud, brief touchdown and dissipation of a tornado in Ireland. Tornadoes are very rare in Ireland. To manage to film one is rare but to have video of the complete life cycle of one is probably a first. Many parts of the video are sped up (timelapse) as the video would be very long otherwise."
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Tornado Touchdown - Kildare / Meath Border, Ireland
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Re: Tornado Touchdown - Kildare / Meath Border, Ireland
Ireland has a huge amount of people with cell-phone/i-phone per head of population, so events like this can be captured on camera.
Nice to see one from there.
Nice to see one from there.
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Re: Tornado Touchdown - Kildare / Meath Border, Ireland
Interesting video! 
It would seem most Irish think they're rare, but according to Torro, Ireland averages about 9 reported and verified tornadoes per year. Most are waterspouts coming onshore (apparently most waterspouts do come onshore there). A higher number occur during the summer months, although the most severe are just as likely to occur in the winter.
It would seem most Irish think they're rare, but according to Torro, Ireland averages about 9 reported and verified tornadoes per year. Most are waterspouts coming onshore (apparently most waterspouts do come onshore there). A higher number occur during the summer months, although the most severe are just as likely to occur in the winter.