The final report into a tornado which ripped through Jersey's east coast during Storm Ciaran in November found it to be the 'strongest on record' in Jersey

It found the twister to be 'moderately devastating' and ranked it as T6 on the TORRO scale, based on the Beaufort Wind scale.

It entered the island at St Clement, around midnight on 1 November with a strength of T5, with wind speeds of up to 160mph.

The rare weather event was also the worst in the British Isles for over 50 years.

According to the report, the tornado seemed to strengthen as it went inland.

Site investigators found the 'most significant damage was seen at Boulivot.

"A single-storey property, which included bedrooms (one of which was being slept in at the time) a storeroom and a solid carport, all with apex roofing suffered collapse on the southern end of the building. Interior walls were exposed.

A car (weight estimated as 1540kg) that had been parked to the northeast of the collapsed building, and therefore initially on the sheltered side of the building ended up 25m away east-northeast.

It suffered damage to its roof but was upright and both wing mirrors were intact. There was no sign of drag across the ground."

One resident from the area likened the noises caused by the storm to 'machine gun fire'.

The tornado left the island at Fliquet at a strength of T6, ripping the roofs of three terraced houses clean off.

We spoke to residents Evie and Tony Perchard two weeks after the storm. They remembered what it was like when the twister struck.

"Around midnight we heard a cracking noise, we felt the air hit us, a very loud bang and then the roof of our bedroom whisked up, throwing Tony onto the floor and cutting out the electricity.

I clambered around the rubble to try and get him out from where he was trapped. I couldn't, he was bleeding profusely, so I ran across the road in my blood-soaked nightie with blood pouring from my head."

The pair were two of three people to be taken to hospital that night.

"Numerous houses were rendered badly damaged or uninhabitable. This, the strongest tornado on record in Jersey, 14 left a community deeply in shock." - TORRO