3 Sep, 2024 @ 07:00
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Watch: Tornado lands in Alicante amid weather alerts for rain and storms across eastern Spain

THIS is the moment a tornado was spotted landing on the Costa Blanca on Monday.

Video shared on X shows the weather phenomenon travelling through the town of Benilloba in Alicante.

It came as much of the area was on a weather alert for storms and rain, with dozens of warnings still in place today.

The footage was captured by X user Nacho Espinos at around 2.40pm.

In the post he said the tornado touched ground east of the Port of Benifallim.

It came just days after a tornado struck in Avila on Friday.

Weather warnings for rain and storms in eastern Spain today (Tuesday)

In that incident, the small town was left without electricity for several hours while some trees were knocked down.

Large swathes of eastern Spain remain on yellow and orange alerts for rainfall and storms today, including Mallorca and Ibiza.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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