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The tornado struck Virginia Beach at 5:50 p.m., according to NBC 12. The NWS confirmed the twister late Sunday night. A video shared on social media showed a large tornado in the distance. As the ...
Dozens of homes were damaged, trees were downed, and more than 2,000 utility customers were briefly without power Sunday evening after a tornado struck Virginia Beach, Virginia, officials said.
The National Weather Service has issued a tornado watch for central and eastern Virginia until 11 p.m. Monday. The watch area includes 71 counties and cities in Virginia, as well as parts of ...
The tornado exited town and entered Edisto Beach State Park, snapping and uprooting numerous trees in the park. The tornado exited the park and struck a small community, removing the entire roof off of at least three homes and part of the roof decking of at least one. The tornado continued northwest, dissipating over marshland.
Severe weather activity became more isolated and scattered on May 27, marking the end of the outbreak sequence. In all, 248 tornadoes occurred during the outbreak sequence; 20 (+1 indirect) people were killed by tornadoes while 10 other people died due to non-tornadic events as well. Over 240 people were injured.
This list may be incomplete, as official tornado records only extend back to 1950 in the United States. [1] The surrounding states of Virginia and Maryland average 10 and 6 tornadoes per year, respectively, which is 0.23 and 0.48 tornadoes per 1,000 square miles (2,600 km 2) per year. [2]
A severe weather outbreak on Wednesday unleashed a preliminary count of two dozen tornadoes and hammered portions of Mississippi and Alabama. AccuWeather forecasters were monitoring a significant ...
Tornado outbreak of April 1977; May 1989 tornado outbreak; November 1989 tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of November 21–23, 1992; 1993 Virginia tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of June 2, 1998; Tornado outbreak of September 24, 2001; Tornado outbreak of April 27–28, 2002; List of tornadoes in the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence ...