Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
[...]
Whirlwinds can be quite impressive: [...good history snipped...]

Telly the other week actually said Britain was the tornado capital of
the world (cue patriotic music). That must have been in purely
numerical terms, of course: I'm not sure that most cute little Brit
willy-willies would even be counted on the NA Prairies.

--
Mike.