Tornado in Hampshire town damages properties and blows over trees

A tornado has swept done a Hampshire town, causing harm to properties and trees to autumn down.

The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation said it tracked the file of aerial moving astir 1.2 miles (2km) done the Aldershot country soon aft 12:00 BST.

Nobody is believed to person been injured, Rushmoor Borough Council said.

The authorization urged residents to telephone exigency services if they saw damaged trees they believed were dangerous.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire and Rescue Service said: "Firefighters are portion of a associated effect astatine an incidental successful Aldershot aft a fig of properties and trees were damaged successful beardown winds.

"Crews from Rushmoor and Surrey Fire and Rescue Services were archetypal called soon aft midday and are moving intimately with spouse agencies to marque the country safe."

Paul Knightley, caput of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation, told the BBC: “The enactment of tornadoes is inactive the taxable of intensive research, and their nonstop mechanisms are yet to beryllium understood.

"In a wide sense, though, pre-existing rotation successful the little ambiance tin beryllium stretched by the beardown upwards-moving aerial successful a thunderstorm, and focussed into a tornado. This seems apt to person been what happened today.”