National Weather Service confirms tornado hit Tysons on Thursday evening

twister was on Earth for only a minute, the review says, producing winds up up to 85 mph at 200-yard path. His maximum width was 50 yards.

Damage was reported at two gas stations along the Chain Bridge Road. Sunoco Station in corner of Chain Bridge and International Drive received serious damage to his dome. “The winds rose up under the dome and caused northwest corner of canopy to collapse on service station building”, says the damage report. Tornado also scattered the packs of water and more small items”, the survey says.

Tornado also damaged a nearby Mobil station.

At the station,[a] garage door facing the northwest was blown 10 to 15 feet away building”, the damage report says. “Metal panels on top of roof to the northwest and southeast facing sides of in building were damaged and thrown out of building. BUT small canopy hanging over entrance of the service station was mangled beyond repair. … flying debris also caused at least 6-8 windows in front of smash the Mobile station.

One video on social media captured what appears to be a funnel 30 to 50 feet wide moving via the Tysons shopping district:

The damage review said the tornado “probably dissipated”. in in the parking lot of Tyson’s Corner Mall.

Possible tornado debris touched down on Silver Line subway tracks near Tysons Corner station, causing train delays and single track, according to tweet from WMATA.

rotation tied with in responsible the thunderstorm, according to radar, suggests that the thunderstorm rotated along a line roughly from Warrenton to Chevy Chase, on its transit through the Tysons area. A thunderstorm can rotate without creating a tornado and, in In this case, the touchdown was only confirmed in Tysons.

Radar and observations showed that a tornado could also briefly touched down around Centerville; however, the Weather Service said it did not see or receive sufficient evidence of tornado is there to consider that area.

Karin Miller, follower of the Capital Weather Gang on facebook who life in sally station area of Centerville, commented that the storm “teared some… off chimney and a couple more small places” of her home. She also wrote that her propane grill had been moved four feet across the deck.

Tornado in March in Washington region not terrible common. Average, region sees about one day with tornado every decade in March, according to Ian Livingstonmember of the Capital Weather Gang.

In general, a tornado occur usually in in region during the late spring and summer months. They are usually small, rated EF0 or EF1, although tornadoes are EF2 caused significant damage in Annapolis last September. Until Thursday, last tornadoes that swept inside the Beltway occurred in July, when EF1 and EF0 tornadoes touched down in Arlington and County, causing minor damage.

Thursday came the tornado on third day of a strong storm that swept from the Plains on Tuesday, through the South on Wednesday and East Coast on Thursday. The weather service received hundreds of barrage damage reports of thunderstorms from Texas to New York. Almost 60 tornadoes were reported. over three days, with highest concentration in Mississippi and Alabama on Wednesday.

upcoming of severe weather in mid-atlantic on On Thursday, the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning early in the morning. in afternoon highlighting the potential for harmful rectilinear winds and mention of the possibility of couple of tornadoes. The weather service posted Washington region in “advanced risk zone for serious thunderstorms.

In addition to Fairfax County, several tornadoes have been reported. in western Pennsylvania and in central North Carolina on Thursday, including one in Raleigh-Durham area. A tornado warning has been issued for Richmond. on Thursday afternoon, but it wasn’t confirmation what the twister actually touched down.