Tornado hits Ireland - Derry farmers escape freak weather phenomenon - VIDEO

Fantastic video! I hope that is the only tornado in Ireland this summer because I'll be there for the summer with my 9 year old and I've assured him Ireland doesn't get tornadoes like we do in midwestern US.

That is an incredible photo !!! and the Name of the PHOTOGRAPHER should have been given credit rather than a generic ' Photo by County Derry Post '. WHO TOOK THE PHOTO?

So does this mean that when my Irish ancestors arrived out on the prairie of the Upper Midwest over 150 years ago they might have been familiar with tornadoes, because they had occurred back in Ireland? The photographer of the Derry storm was very lucky he wasn't injured by the twister. Just because you have the technology to take a good tornado photo doesn't mean you shouldn't take cover when it is needed. The recent wave of storm chasers in the region have learned the hard way about getting too close. There have been alot of under publicized injuries with this spring's storms. There are numerous clouds like the one in Derry each storm season in the Upper Midwest.

Had very little rain this year in Florida which reminds me of my first year down here. Moved down here in 2004 and there was very little rain. That summer we got hit by 3 major hurricanes. Mother Nature is getting to be quite scary.

Derry is divided by the river Foyle which has created a left bank and a west bank. The west bank which has a Catholic majority is physically located inside the Inishowen penisula which is a beautiful part of Donegal(part of the Republic of Ireland). The decision to place the whole of Derry and other majority-nationalist cities and towns in a state called 'Northern Ireland' was taken at the behest of the boundary commission which the British setup in 1925 and no plebescite was held to decide the issue. The injustice of partition still rankles and it's consequences have all been to clear over the last 90 years.

Derry in the headline (good), Londonderry in the story (bad). I never heard an Irish person refer to this county or city as Londonderry.

IT IS DERRY - NOT "LONDONDERRY"

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where is londonderry - a name uk's planters gave to derry - and now we 'ave i-offthe map spouting their line.

sham1977 - because Derry is in Northern Ireland. But you don't expect people from the Republic, or connected to the Republic, to call it Londonderry. Maybe Ms Rodriguez is a Unionist.

I'm glad everyone is all right. We get Tornados warnings and watches fairly frequently durning the season. It is awesome and frightening when one comes close by and usually tragic when one touches down. glad no lives were lost and property lose was limited (and I hope covered by inurance).

I know. Why is this still on maps - saying Londonderry instead of Derry? It really annoys me that it's still on maps. Cobh is now Cobh and not queenstown, is it not? Why is it not the same for Derry city?

That's not good editing.

Beat me to it Donalmca. I cant believe Ms Rodriquez has referred to it as Londonderry.