This is the moment when the "Mini Tornado" swirls in the parking lot outside the British Cafe.
The weatherphenomenon shocked people at his café in the Copythorn community in Cadnum near Southampton in Hantz.
Her owner Victoria Howard-Jones of the business filmed a whirlwind lasting 30 seconds to her 45 seconds.
She said: ``I was surprised because it's not something you see every day.
``At first I thought I was going to lose my car. He described the weather phenomenon as a "dust devil."
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Daily Echo/Solent News)He said: "Dust devils are very short-lived and spin upwards.
"They are usually harmless. Here, dust devils, or whirlwinds as they are also called, often go unnoticed as they tend to occur in the countryside during the grain harvest season.
"However, conditions such as the present, with a large high pressure system now firmly in place over much of Great Britain, with cloudless skies and both high and high air and ground temperatures, would not allow dust devils to develop.
``A vacuum of warm air draws up waste straws or lightweight materials on the ground, briefly swirling them in the air.''
He said that dust devils differ from true tornadoes in that tornadoes rotate upwards while the former rotate upwards. Tornadoes are the opposite.
Professor Justin Sheffield, head of geography and environmental sciences at the University of Southampton, said dust devils are rare in the UK.
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he said: Globally it is a desert region, but somewhat rare in the UK. Because not only must it be hot and dry, but the dust must be visible.
"The recent dry weather and high temperatures make these more likely to form.
"They are not dangerous and last only seconds or minutes at most. But I do expect them to become more common, especially in the south of the country, with climate change bringing drier and hotter summers."
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