2023 Jersey tornado
Just before midnight on Wednesday, November 1, 2023, a tornado impacted the Isle of Jersey in the Channel Islands, a crown dependency of the United Kingdom.[5] Red weather warnings for non-tornadic wind gusts in excess of 100 mph were already in force for the Channel Islands with schools closed and people told to stay at home.[6] By 18:00 GMT, the leading edge of the storms precipitation in the form of a warm front had reached Jersey, bringing mainly heavy rain produced by nimbostratus clouds.The cluster was quickly advected northeast back into the storms warm sector by the extremely strong south-westerly winds where it evolved into a persistent and severe single-cell thunderstorm known as a supercell.At around 23:55 GMT, the tornado touched down just to the east of Havre des Pas bathing pool, on the islands south-south-eastern coastline, inflicting moderate to severe damage to coastal and seafront properties.