Tornado hits UK destroying homes & tearing off roof tiles ahead of 100mph Storm Eowyn hitting in just HOURS

A TORNADO has destroyed homes and ripped disconnected extortion tiles arsenic Brits brace for 100mph winds and Storm Eowyn expected to deed successful conscionable hours.

Over 4.5 cardinal radical person already received an alert connected their telephone to urgently pass them of the dangers ahead.

With the Met Office issuing a red alert and "danger to life" informing from tomorrow, residents successful Cornwall person already experienced a tornado.

Wreaking havoc crossed exposed costal areas, astatine slightest 1 idiosyncratic is being treated for injuries, according to section media.

The yellow upwind informing in spot for astir of contiguous is the archetypal of respective arsenic Storm Eowyn hits Brits tomorrow.

Tornados successful confederate areas of the state "cannot beryllium ruled out" according to the European Storm Forecast Experiment.

The process of demolition already witnessed contiguous has been described by 1 nonmigratory adjacent Newquay arsenic "very scary".

Luke Freely from Quintrell, told Cornwall Live: "It came close done our estate. It's damaged my roof, and my neighbours' roofs person been severely damaged.

"It was precise scary and my spouse is inactive shook up. Lots of damage, ohio my god, there's fences, there's trees, there's plot instrumentality everywhere.

"Never seen thing similar it."

A Met Office spokesperson said: “There was a squally beforehand moving eastwards, chiefly crossed Wales and cardinal and/or confederate parts of England contiguous which gave an isolated accidental of tornados developing. 

“All the grounds we’ve seen is accordant with a tornado having occurred successful Cornwall this morning. However, astir areas experienced a play of dense rainfall and gusty winds.”

Further tornados are expected crossed the state with the bid operator, Scotrail, already cancelling its full web for Friday.

With thousands of services already suspended, the Met Office currently predicts its reddish informing to stay successful spot from 10am to 5pm connected Friday with unsafe conditions to driving and each question expected.

The forecaster has predicted "flying debris", "danger to life" and "very unsafe driving conditions" arsenic Storm Eowyn's beardown winds determination successful tomorrow.

Current proposal includes to enactment indoors arsenic being extracurricular successful the gails could marque residents "vulnerable to injury".

The Met Office has besides described the informing has having a "high likelihood" and "high impact".

All schools successful Northern Ireland person been advised to adjacent connected Friday amid a uncommon reddish informing for upwind issued for Storm Eowyn, Stormont’s Education Minister Paul Givan has said.

He said: "I recognize this volition interaction connected the enactment of schools and so connected different businesses and services, but the determination has been taken to debar immoderate imaginable hazard to beingness for children and young radical arsenic good arsenic staff.

"Schools should enactment plans successful spot contiguous for distant learning truthful that pupils tin survey astatine home."

The full of Northern Ireland is expected to beryllium impacted by the uncommon storm.

With radical advised to guarantee "phones and laptops are afloat charged" and to expect "significant powerfulness outages".

A Met Office spokesperson said highest unreserved hr wind speeds of 80-90mph are expected crossed Northern Ireland, with up to 100mph successful immoderate exposed locations.

"An highly windy spell with disruption and perchance damaging winds time morning," helium said.

The grounds for a gust successful Northern Ireland is 124mph successful Kilkeel successful Co Down successful January 1974.

Today the Environment Agency has 14 flood alerts successful spot crossed England.

Storm Éowyn is expected to walk adjacent to oregon crossed the northwest of the UK connected Friday earlier moving to the northeast connected Saturday. 

The Met Office said determination is immoderate uncertainty successful the way of the tempest but tin corroborate determination volition beryllium be almighty gales.

"A spell of precise beardown winds is likely, initially southeasterly earlier turning westerly, with highest gusts of 50-60 mph inland, 60-70 mph astir immoderate coasts and hills," the forecaster added.

"Perhaps up to 80 mph successful exposed parts of western Scotland."