Huge tornado captured on video on the moors above Todmorden

Sara Steeles-Yates captured the video on June 15 and shared it on Facebook.

The incredible shows the dark grey clouds above Todmorden and a the twister coming down from the sky.

In her post she said: "Tornado! Over Todmorden Moor heading towards Walsden/Bacup.

"Am expecting the other Horsemen of the Apocalypse any day now."

What is a tornado according to the Met Office?

A tornado is a rapidly rotating column of air that reaches between the base of a storm cloud and the Earth's surface.

They form in very unsettled weather conditions as part of severe thunderstorms.

Many conditions need to be present for a tornado to form but, when these conditions are met, a violently whirling mass of air, known as a vortex, forms beneath the storm cloud.

A funnel cloud usually develops as the vortex forms due to the reduced pressure in the vortex.

Strong inflowing winds intensify, and the spin rate increases as the vortex stretches vertically.

If it continues stretching and intensifying for long enough the vortex touches the ground, at which point it becomes classified as a tornado. The tornado then moves across the surface causing severe damage or destruction to objects in its path.

A tornado typically has the form of a twisting funnel-shaped cloud between the cloud base and the ground.

Sometimes the vortex can appear as a slender rope-like form, particularly when the tornado is weakening; sometimes a tornado can be almost invisible, observable by the debris thrown up from the surface.

Tornadoes typically spin anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere (cyclonically).