Birmingham hit my tornado

Nineteen people have been injured - three seriously - as a tornado ripped through the streets of Birmingham.

"From the reports we have heard we would estimate that this is a tornado with a rating of T3-T4, that would mean it had wind speeds of between 93-114 mph for T3 and 114-130 for T4.

"A typical description would be that motorcars were lifted and destroyed, roofs removed from buildings and weak buildings destroyed.