Experts confirm tornado hit West Sussex

Storm investigators have confirmed a tornado hit Littlehampton on Saturday evening, the second one in six weeks.

A roof ripped off a house and cars and other properties around North Street were also damaged.

No one was hurt.

The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (Torro) has provisionally rated the tornado a T4, signifying it as being of "severe" force.

The rating suggests the tornado would have involved winds of up to 61m/s (136mph) capable of causing damage to buildings and lifting up and carrying sheds or uprooting trees.

Sarah Horton, Torro site investigator, told the PA news agency: "When we got there, there was a house that had lost its roof so that very clearly put it in the T4 category.

"The roof flew about 25 metres and the landlord of the property whose garden it landed in said the wooden joists had become embedded about one metre in the ground.

"It's a strong tornado for the UK, I have visited only a couple of T4 sites in many years of visits."

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