A suspected tornado hit a small village in Ireland yesterday causing "significant damage" to buildings and trees in leaving a path of "pure destruction" in its wake.
The 'tornado' landed in the Foulkesmill area of Wexford, in the south of the county, between 1pm and 1.30pm on Wednesday, according to locals.
One farmer from the area said that it flattened the walls of nearby farmyard and ripped the roof off sheds, as well causing damage to buildings and bringing a large number of trees down.
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This comes after Ireland was battered with heavy winds and rain yesterday following a Status Yellow warning for the whole country.
Alan O'Reilly, of Carlow Weather, took to Twitter to share a video that shows some of damage, writing: "I’ve been sent this footage now from near the Foulkesmill area of Wexford where a suspected Tornado hit today. Locals report it hitting between 1pm and 1:30pm with damage to many buildings and large number of trees down."
Local farmer, Willie John Kehoe, spoke to South East Radio on Wednesday describing the damage, saying that it "levelled" his farmyard and knocked down trees that have stood for 100 years.
He said: "There was significant damage done here in the afternoon, it looks like a tornado came through. It has levelled the whole farmyard, a big old house here and I believe down the road there’s a good few houses damaged.
"There were other sheds knocked, it’s in a line of about 100 metres wide and it’s just pure destruction the whole way along. I got a phone call from a cousin of mine here, a farmer in his yard and he said you’d have to see it to believe it and there’s not a sheet of galvinised left on the new shed.
"Everything in the old part of the yard was levelled, the garden walls were levelled, big trees that have stood for hundreds of years they’re just completely, completely not there."
In the wake of the damage, Wexford County Council issued an alert yesterday afternoon, warning people about fallen trees and localised flooding in the area.
According to Met Eireann, Ireland is "not immune to tornadoes", and while they are sometimes referred to as “mini-tornadoes”, they are still tornadoes.
On average, there are 10 tornadoes in Ireland each year although most tornadoes here are "weak and brief and many occur without being noticed".
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