Possible tornado touchdown in Chesapeake

unsworn wrote:

>>>Everytime a thunderstorm shows up here people in this area scream tornado. I grew up in the Midwest---right in the middle of Tornado Alley.<<<

I'd lived on the East Coast all my life and spent many days at the beach, but it doesn't make me an oceanographer.

>>>In the 21 years of living here, I have seen ONE---that's all just ONE- bonafide tornado and that was in Suffolk.<<<

I suggest you get your short-term memory fixed:

http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/graphic-tornadoes-hampton-roads

I would have LOVED to have seen you during your first hurricane; I bet that was a real knee-slapper!

I was standing out in my drive way in Great Bridge and looked around as I am not that far from Waters Road. I did not see anything. Now if you want good weather reports, go to NOAA's website or watch the weather channel, but whatever you do, do not rely on the local yo-yo's Are they the ones that screwed up the big ice/snow storm and the city listened to them and cancelled school back in January? They see a storm from four different radars, I see a storm by going out to my drive way. No tornado touchdown anywhere that is from the bottom of the land to the top portions of the clouds. Again weather channel and NOAA, America's best forecasters.

blame bad Democrats and unbeliever/possible Muslim, Barack Obama for this obvious wrath-of-God-like attack?

Gee whiz what gives Pat?

Yeah yeah I know this comment is waiting for approval yadda yadda yadda

Here we go again with the "Back in the Midwest, it's colder....real tornadoes...real snowstorm....." story, I did not see what happened yesterday because I am not in the area at the moment but I've lived there for 21 years myself but I can't possibly see every storms that happened in the area, heck, sometimes it's raining really hard in Battlefield and it's sunny in Great Bridge where I live so who I am to say that if a tornado touched down in Suffolk, that I would have seen it. Tornadoes vary in speed and forms and size and the destruction it creates, and of course the bigger ones are in the Midwest because that is where they usually happen such as a hurricane is usually no longer a hurricane once it reaches the Midwest because it does not usually happen there and oh by the way once a FUNNEL CLOUD touches down it becomes a tornado.

Everytime a thunderstorm shows up here people in this area scream tornado. I grew up in the Midwest---right in the middle of Tornado Alley. In the 21 years of living here, I have seen ONE---that's all just ONE- bonafide tornado and that was in Suffolk. Folks that are so excited to see a tornado need to go to the Midwest where the real ones are. Around here, it seems like everytime it gets windy the local weatherpeople start screaming tornado and you Easterners believe it. Calm down, people. Wind does not a tornado make and a funnel cloud is only a tornado if it hits the ground. The pictures that were victoriously trotted out by the local news folks was a FUNNEL. A tornado would have made a MUCH bigger mess.

@pens0088 did you happen to watch the local news!?!? Looks like it was a in Chesapeake to me.

There was indeed a tornado in Great Bridge last night. I was in my front yard with my kids when it started to form. I sent them in the house and started to gather up potential projectiles as I watched it go from an unorganized group of rotating clouds to a very distinct and organized funnel. Fortunately for my neighbors and I we only had the surrounding weather effect us but we watched as the tornado skirted our neighborhood and the tail grew longer and longer until it touched down in the Hanbury and Millwood area. Driving down Hanbury this morning the damage was quite apparent. I am not sure why pens0088 is so insistent that there wasn't one. The Fire Department the tornado went over and a trained spotter both verified the tornado. dokein you made a facetious comment about a down fence panel prooving it was a tornado so I thought you should know the following:
69% of all tornadoes are weak tornados with a lifetime of 1-10+ minutes and with winds less than 110 mph. Not all tornados cause mass destruction.

There couldnt have been a tornado. There were no trailer parks damaged.

It's hard to tell what the phenomenon was, but it was possibly some type of tornadic activity by the descriptions by my neighbors, but granted, none of them are meteorologists, not do they have a Doppler radar set up in their backyard. Who knows? It might have been a Gustnado, or a micro-burst. The thing is there was damage and the path resembles many touchdowns.

I guess what I'm really trying to say is, "Chill out man, Life is too short to flame someone's account of a story."

There was no tornado in Chesapeake nor the Great Bridge section. High winds yes, but minor and nothing even close. The potential was there, but it did not last long. So we do not need to add anymore flame to the fire because it didn't happen!

Good Morning, I live on the 700 block of Waters Road and last night the tornado ripped through our neighborhood breaking tree tops, throwing water out of pools, uprooting trees and tossing a solar pool covering up to the top of a 40 foot tree. No houses or cars were damaged and no one was hurt.

while sitting in our living room we heard sudden and VERY loud winds that sounded like a train passing by. We saw branches fly by our big picture window and debris (like leaves and small branches) whip up in a circular motion. It was VERY loud and startling.

Will be outside with my neighbors checking out the damage later.

Well if a 6-foot prefabricated fence panel fell over, it must have been a tornado.

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"The only damages reported were a few trees downed.

Emergency dispatchers in Chesapeake received some reports of minor damages on Abilene Court and Waters Road.

In Virginia Beach, there were no damages reported to emergency dispatchers."

The plural of "damage" is also "damage," unless you're referring to "a sum of money claimed or awarded in compensation for a loss or an injury."

This is embarrassing. Someone wake up down there!