{"id":311663,"date":"2026-02-22T16:10:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311663\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:10:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T16:10:11","slug":"roofs-lifted-off-sheds-as-mini-tornado-hits-in-co-tipperary-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/311663\/","title":{"rendered":"Roofs lifted off sheds as \u2018mini-tornado\u2019 hits in Co Tipperary \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Residents of Loughmore, Co Tipperary<\/a> have described a weather<\/a> event on Friday that blew the roofs off of two hay sheds as a \u2018mini-tornado\u2019. <\/p>\n

Swirling wind and rain descended on the village at about 11am and Maureen Cullen first noticed the change as her clothes line started to spin – gradually at first and then very quickly. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe roof of the hay shed took off and it flew over the house,\u201d she said. \u201cSome of it hit the slates on the house so we have two holes in the roof now. We\u2019re fairly near the road; it went across the road, over the electric wires and over a bungalow across from us.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Cullens\u2019 shed is a large, corrugated structure and its floating roof could have posed a significant danger to anyone caught underneath it. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt was terrible but it could have been a lot worse,\u201d Cullen added. \u201cThank God there was nobody on the road. There were no cars passing, there was nobody walking and there was nobody out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maureen\u2019s husband Tom, who recently turned 80, was born in the house in Loughmore. Neither he nor his wife had ever seen such a dramatic shift in the weather in the area. Maureen Cullen said it all occurred in the space of a couple of minutes. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe house a couple of hundred yards down the road from us, they lost the roof of a shed as well,\u201d she said. \u201cThe gentleman [living there] is 60 and his grandfather planted apple trees \u2013 they\u2019re all just lying flat now.\u201d<\/p>\n

[\u00a0Expect more extreme weather as climate change impact now \u2018stark\u2019, says Met \u00c9ireannOpens in new window<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n

\"CCTVCCTV has captured, what locals have described as a “mini-tornado”, passing through Loughmore, Co Tipperary. <\/p>\n

A Met \u00c9ireann<\/a> spokesman said the forecaster would not be able to verify whether a tornado did indeed occur in Loughmore. <\/p>\n

However, he said it was possible and \u201cnot something that we haven\u2019t seen happen before\u201d. <\/p>\n

Data shows there was showery and very localised thunderstorm activity around the time of the event, and tornadoes can go unrecorded in Ireland.<\/p>\n

On its website, Met \u00c9ireann explains that the term \u2018mini-tornado\u2019 came into use to distance the sorts of tornadoes Ireland experiences from the much larger ones regularly recorded in the United States. <\/p>\n

The meteorological service estimates that, on average, there are 10 such tornado occurrences in Ireland each year. <\/p>\n

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