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A tornado whipped up a massive 30ft funnel of hay as it landed in a farmer's field and threw up everything in its path.
James Ludlam was on the 300-acre farm near Leicester when he witnessed the spectacle and started to film the action on his mobile phone .
It shows ferocious winds swirling the hay up from the ground in a clear cylindrical column and sending it more than 30ft into the air above Cattows Farm in the village of Heather.
Although James admits it wasn't strong enough to lift anything heavy up, he believes that if his customer's horses had been grazing on the field it would have caused distress to the animals.
The 38-year-old said: "It was a visual spectacle.