Windows have been damaged, and properties were hit as a tornado raged through a British village.
Tearing into a village in County Durham, fences were blown over and windows were smashed as extreme weather hit the UK on Saturday.
Captured on a home CCTV system at 3pm, footage shows properties being damaged as homeowners took shelter.
Tiles were blown off roofs in Eldon, near Bishop Auckland, as property owners incurred thousands of pounds worth of repairs.
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|CCTV footage shows fences being blown over and properties being damaged
Last Friday, Paul Knightley, the head of the Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (Torro), issued a notice stating that low cloud bases and a "convergence zone" could form a funnel.
Knightley warned that such conditions would hit in central, south and southeast England, the East Midlands and East Anglia on Saturday afternoon.
"There's a small risk of a brief tornado from these," he said.
Several areas of the UK currently have yellow weather warnings for heavy rain and thunderstorms, as downpours are expected for the majority of the week.
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A Scandinavian cyclone and a tropical anticyclone threaten the UK with thunderstorm chaos into mid-week.
Downpours are set to split the nation, with Scotland and northern regions in the deluge firing line pelted as the south turns drier.
Met Office thunderstorm warnings are in force across much of the UK, alerting Britons to flooding, power cuts and travel chaos.
Met Office meteorologist Alex Deakin said: "Low pressure is sitting up towards Scandinavia, and high pressure is trying to build from the southwest.
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|Yellow thunderstorm warnings are in place for the majority of the UK
"The closer you are to the high, the better chance you have of staying dry, but if you are after rain, then you need to be closer to the low pressure.
"This means things will be showery, particularly close to the low.
"With most of the showers across the north and the east, it will be largely dry in the south, particularly down to the southwest close to that high pressure."
Despite the wet weather, water companies across Britain have confirmed that hosepipe bans will remain in force.