'Mini tornado' tears through Coventry causing damage to homes and uprooting trees

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Dramatic images show the aftermath of a tornado which tore through a city suburb uprooting trees and causing thousands of pounds of damage to homes.  The mini twister touched down in the Finham area of Coventry at around 6.30pm on Tuesday (8/10) as high winds and storms battered the area.  Terrified locals reported hearing a noises like "a bomb going off" or "a train coming" as the tornado brought down tress, removed roof riles and toppled scaffolding.  One tree, estimated to be about 100ft (30m) tall, fell into four gardens in Beanfield Avenue while several smaller trees were snapped in two "like twigs".

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00:00Yesterday there was a massive wind for about 5 minutes, and if you look up there, all the

00:19scaffold planks just came down as they went next door, and then two doors down and a tree

00:25just came down and knocked a fence over, so yeah, it was about 5 minutes it lasted.

00:29So I was washing up in the back and I noticed that the tree started to sway a little bit

00:33and the next thing I knew they were really bending virtually either way, and then that's

00:38when we noticed the scaffold planks were flying off the scaffolding.

00:41Yeah, so, it was a bit...

00:44I think it affected these four roads, but nowhere else really.

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