Funnel cloud over Hadrian's Wall caught on camera
Jazmin GrayA tornado-like cloud spotted in the sky over Northumberland has caused excitement for a weather-watching family.
Jazmin Gray had been getting ready to go out on a dog walk with her family near Bardon Mill on Sunday at about 13:30 GMT.
"My husband came in and said 'there's a tornado out the back'," she said. "We all just jumped up out the living room and went into the kitchen."
What the family saw was not a tornado, but a funnel cloud. These form around localised areas of intensely low pressure, in the same way as tornadoes, but are only classed as such if they touch the ground.
Nevertheless, Gray said it was amazing to see the cloud in the distance, which she said "kept coming closer and then going away again" for about 10 minutes.
After the sky darkened and the cloud increase in size, it "slowly evaporated into the sky," she said.
She said she was not afraid at any point, but did start to wonder how safe she and her family were.
"There was an element of what if that does get bigger and does come towards us?" she said. "You don't really know how to feel when you see something like that."
Gray said Sunday was a family celebration, with her parents visiting from their home in Portugal, where they have lived for 17 years.
"They have tornadoes in their town so we were joking that they've brought the weather with them to Northumberland," she said.
BBC weather presenter Jen Bartram said although funnel clouds are not especially rare, there had been lively showers in Northumberland at the time the picture was taken.