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Homes escape damage after 'moderate tornado'

Craig Buchan
BBC News, South East
Sarah Horton/Torro Two trees with the tops broken off. Other split branches are sat at the bottom of the trunks.Sarah Horton/Torro
The twister damaged trees along the River Arun

A research group is collecting information about storm damage after "evidence of a moderate tornado" in West Sussex.

The weather event happened in Pulborough just before 18:00 BST on Saturday, according to the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (Torro).

This followed a yellow Met Office thunderstorm warning in south-east England on the same day.

Torro site investigator Sarah Horton told BBC Radio Sussex she was "particularly interested in what happened next" after observing the 0.8-mile (1.3km) damage trail south of the village.

She said: "Did the thunderstorm that produced the tornado in Pulborough do anything else as it went further east":[]}