UPDATE: 12.21pm

Resident on Goya Close, Claire Spencer, described how it picked up wheelie bins as it passed her property.

She said: “I heard loud banging on our roof and I thought it was coming off, but it was pieces of a neighbour’s roof blowing into ours. “When I went outside, the roof was everywhere.”

It was at her property, where a metal chair had been carried over a fence and dumped in her pond. She added: “I have never seen anything like it. It was frightening and everyone was panicking. “It is like something out of a film as you don’t expect a tornado to happen here.”

UPDATE: 12.21pm

Couple, Pat and Gary Wilding , who have lived in their property on Goya Close for 62 years, had the roof ripped off their house.

She said: “We heard some noise that sounded like thunder, but it must have been our roof. “I went upstairs and water was pouring into the bathroom.” She explained that the roof caused “havoc” as big pieces smashed fences, a green house and dented a metal shed.

“It has completely destroyed our garden” she added. “The pieces went blowing down the close and went everywhere.”

Luckily a neighbour quickly organised his company to come and patch the roof up to make it water tight.

UPDATE: 12.11pm

Another resident, who lives off Goya Close, on Kelly Road, said she saw the whirling tornado pass her house.

Janine Spencer said: “I was getting my baby changed to go out and I heard the rain pick up and then saw it was swirling.

“It was very quick, but when I went outside afterwards, you could see debris blown around, such as the bins all knocked over.”

She then spoke to her father in law on Goya Close, Mark Spencer, and their road saw the brunt of it.

She said: “Metal patio furniture had been picked up and blow into other people’s garden with a chair landing in a pond.

“A roof had been blown down the road and smashed through fences and a green house. Everyone has been out helping to clean up.”

UPDATE: 11.17am

ST JULIANS residents have reported a "mini-tornado" this morning which left a house with a damaged roof.

Resident Mark Spencer said what he described as a "mini- tornado" left debris in gardens and damaged a roof on Goya Close at around 9.30am.