Tornado hits Valleys

Well, in 1913 one did in fact, killing the captain of Ton Pentre football club, C.Woolford. Following last week's Birmingham tornado, the Western Mail records today how the Valleys tornado was the deadliest ever to hit Britain. It describes how the Glamorgan Historian recorded the events:

The victim was C Woolford, the right-back and captain of the Ton Pentre Football Club.

He and the trainer, Walter Breeze, were walking to the station on their way home and were a short distance ahead of the rest of the team.

Woolford was dashed against a wall, fracturing his skull, while Breeze was lucky to get away with a broken rib, also having been blown against a wall.

The centre of the storm seems to have been Cilfynydd - it's not clear that it actually hit the Rhondda. Woolford was killed in Edwardsville as I understand it. Geology Wales has a more detailed account.