A tourist spotted a whirlpool tornado off the coast of a popular British beach.

Two tornado funnels were seen rushing towards the shore line before sweeping off to the left at Filey beach in North Yorkshire at 6.42pm yesterday (15/7).

The footage, taken from a cliff-top holiday home at Primrose Valley holiday park, then pans upwards to show huge lightening-filled clouds.

The holidaymaker, and who didn't want to be named, first thought the movement in the water was dolphins before realising it was a whirlpool.

The dad-of-one, 38, from Derby, said: "I've never seen anything like this before."

"It was quite concerning as we were in a very vulnerable dwelling with my two-year-old."

"It was more worrying when I saw the clouds starting to spin."

"My father, 70, said he's never seen anything like it before either."