Saturday, September 18, 2010
West Virginia Tornados Confirmed
WEST VIRGINIA....
Officials with the National Weather Service in Charleston have confirmed two tornados touched down Thursday evening in West Virginia. The first confirmed touchdown is in the community of Belleville in Wood County. The Belleville twister, an EF3 storm in strength, sustained maximum winds of 160-miles an hour. The storm’s path was two-and-a-half miles long and 300-yards wide. A number of homes were destroyed or heavily to moderately damaged, while one person, 57 year old Larry Freeman, was killed and nearly a dozen more injured. Damage was light to moderate in neighboring Wirt County where a second twister touchdown was confirmed near the community of Palestine. An EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds of 100-miles an hour, created a path that was a mile long and about 100-yards wide. Trees were the biggest victims of that storm, although a few out buildings and homes sustained minor to moderate damage.
Officials with the National Weather Service in Charleston have confirmed two tornados touched down Thursday evening in West Virginia. The first confirmed touchdown is in the community of Belleville in Wood County. The Belleville twister, an EF3 storm in strength, sustained maximum winds of 160-miles an hour. The storm’s path was two-and-a-half miles long and 300-yards wide. A number of homes were destroyed or heavily to moderately damaged, while one person, 57 year old Larry Freeman, was killed and nearly a dozen more injured. Damage was light to moderate in neighboring Wirt County where a second twister touchdown was confirmed near the community of Palestine. An EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds of 100-miles an hour, created a path that was a mile long and about 100-yards wide. Trees were the biggest victims of that storm, although a few out buildings and homes sustained minor to moderate damage.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 4:07 AM 
