Tornado Reports
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| 12:18Z | EF0 | KDOX | MD | Queen Anne's | Carmichael | The tornado touched down along Stagwell Road in Queenstown. |Pictures and video showed a distinct but narrow path in a corn |field parallel to the road which is mostly east to west. The |downed corn was in a circular pattern, and aerial footage over the|corn field showed some downburst signatures on the right side of |the tornado path. In addition to the cornfield damage, sporadic |tree damage occurred along Stagwell Road across from the corn |field. The tornado looks to have lifted before it reached the Wye |River as there was no additional visible damage north of this |path. Radar showed defined rotation, however given the weak |intensity of the tornado it appeared to have occurred on the north|side of a larger rotational signature and therefore tracked more |east to west. |
| 12:25Z | EF1 | KDOX | DE | Sussex | Chestnut Knoll | A tornado touched down north of the intersection of Shawnee Rd and Old Shawnee Rd in southwest Milford (Sussex County) around 8:25 AM on August|4. Tree damage was found in this area. The tornado initially moved north-northeast as it tracked towards the Kent County line. There was extensive tree damage from Meadow Brook and |Evergreen lanes north to Haven Lake, which divides the two counties. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped. The tornado remained on the ground as it crossed the lake into Kent County. |
| 12:25Z | EF1 | KDOX | DE | Kent | Sandtown | The tornado touched down in the vicinity of Road 258 south of |Sandtown Road, then tracked across a section of mostly open fields|but damaged some trees along the way. It then tracked down the |western portion of Sandtown Road closer to Route 10 damaging |several homes and snapping and uprooting several trees. A home had|some windows blown out along with roof damage, another home had |its roof blown off and there was a large garage that had its back |sheet metal wall torn off. The tornado crossed Route 10 near the |intersection with Sandtown Road and moved across the Sandtown |Landfill facility where additional trees were uprooted or snapped,|two front-end loaders had windows blown out and some truck |trailers were flipped over. The tornado exited the landfill and |may have dissipated before reaching the Maryland-Delaware state |line. Doppler radar data showed rotation and a notable tornado |debris signature near and just northwest of Sandtown as debris was|tossed into the air. |
| 12:28Z | EF1 | KDOX | DE | Kent | Milford | Soon after crossing Haven Lake into Kent County, the tornado's direction of motion shifted considerably, from north-northeast to northwest. The tornado crossed |Williamsville Road producing additional tree damage, then lifted |as it proceeded northwest west of Milford Harrington Highway. Due to the extensive|tree damage, power lines and some poles were also down along |portions of the tornados path. Several of the trees were of |softwood and snapped at their trunks, which is indicative of 100 |mph winds and this was used to rate this tornado. This wind speed |corresponds to an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Doppler radar |data showed a well defined tornado debris signature that quickly |developed on the west and northwest side of Milford as the |circulation moved through. |
| 12:55Z | EF2 | KDOX | DE | Kent | Lebanon | The tornado touched down in the vicinity of the Eagle Meadows |Apartment Homes on Sorghum Mill Road in Kent County then moved |across Route 10. It tracked nearly parallel to South State Street |through Anneville, the south side of Dover, where significant tree|damage occurred, including some treetops shredded from Poplar |Lane to the neighborhood around Steele Road. It was here where |some roof damage occurred to some homes especially due to fallen |trees, however a garage was significantly damaged on Dyer���s Tree|Farm. The tornado then crossed over Route 13 near the Eden |Medical Center and very near the William Henry Middle School. A |couple sections of the school���s roof were blown off along with |some tree damage nearby. A warehouse adjacent to the school had a |few sections of its metal walls torn off and a couple of tractor |trailer trailers flipped onto their side. The tornado then crossed|over Walker Road at Route 15 then to Westminster Village at Dover|near the intersection of Route 15 and College Road.||The tornado continued northward just east of Cheswold where it may have briefly lifted for a time with discontinuous tree damage |before moving through the east side of Smyrna where more notable |tree damage occurred. A 96 mph wind gust was measured at a |Delaware Department of Transportation weather station located on |Route 1 just north of Smyrna as the tornadic circulation passed |by. The tornado continued north-northwestward as it crossed Duck Creek into New Castle County. |
| 13:10Z | EF2 | KDOX | DE | New Castle | Walker | As this tornado crossed into New Castle County, it continued nearly parallel to Routes 1 |and 13 on the east sides of Townsend and Middletown. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted along portions of |Blackbird Landing Road and Gum Bush Road in Townsend with some |damage to roofs. A garage at a residence on Blackbird Landing Road|was destroyed. The tornado then damaged homes in Middletown along|Spring Hollow Drive. In this neighborhood, some homes had roof |material and siding blown off with numerous trees uprooted. |Several garage doors were blown out and one home had an entire |side wall blown off. One picture showed a home with a missing |exterior corner walls on the second story.||The tornado continued north northwest to the Summit Bridge area |just south of the C and D canal. It is here where substantial |damage occurred to several homes, including one home that had more|than half of its roof completely torn off with a neighboring home|losing several sections of their roof. Some other homes lost a |portion of their roof and siding was torn off with a garage door |blown in, along with several trees down or snapped. The tornado |crossed the canal and tracked near Lums Pond and through an |adjacent wooded area where pictures and areal footage showed a |clear path with numerous trees down. The tornado then crossed |Route 896 and into the Brennan Estates where hundreds of trees |were down or uprooted and around a dozen homes sustained enough |damage that they were declared as uninhabitable. The tornado then |looked to have lifted prior to crossing over into Cecil County |Maryland.||Based on the damage to the homes in the Middletown to Summit |Bridge to Brennan Estates areas especially (some non-tree related |damage), the rating of this tornado was increased to 115 mph which|is equivalent to an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Doppler |radar data showed a continuous and well defined rotational |signature and also a tornado debris signature.||This tornado path length set a new record in Delaware, greatly |surpassing the previous tornado path length record of 13 miles |which occurred in 1988. |
| 13:45Z | EF1 | KDIX | NJ | Cape May | Strathmere | A waterspout came ashore near the southern end of Corson���s |Inlet State Park near Strathmere then across marshy areas. The |tornado then crossed the Garden State Parkway then tracked along |Route 9 across the south side of Marmora. There were several |pictures and videos of the waterspout and tornado including a |trained spotter reporting a tornado on the ground with debris in |the air. The tornado produced significant damage to homes and |businesses on the 500 block of Route 9, starting in the vicinity |of a Coca Cola facility where containers were tossed around with |even a truck trailer flipped onto its side. Adjacent to the Coca |Cola facility, a large shed at a residence was upended and |vehicles were moved from their original locations. Several homes |had portions of their roofs blown off with a couple of homes |sustaining significant damage to a side wall or corner walls. The |tornado crossed Route 9 to the Pine Hill Mobile Home Court where |significant damage occurred to trees and buildings. One home was |shifted off its foundation and others had roof damage and downed |trees crushed several cars. The tornado tracked north northwest |crossing Tuckahoe Road and may have dissipated over the adjacent |marsh areas. Doppler radar data showed a well defined tornado |debris signature as the tornado moved through portions of Marmora. |
| 14:44Z | EF0 | KDIX | PA | Montgomery | Hartranft | An EF0 tornado occurred in Worcester Township in Montgomery |County, Pennsylvania as Tropical Storm Isaias moved northward |along the East Coast of the United States. With southeastern |Pennsylvania being in the northeastward, right front quadrant, the|tornado and parent storm moved in an unusual northwestward |trajectory ahead of the main center of the tropical storm. An area|of circulation tightened in a strong cell within a rainband in |southeastern Montgomery County. As this circulation tightened, a |brief tornado formed near the intersection of Brindle Court and |Township Line Road in Worcester Township, where a few small trees |were downed in a small residential subdivision. From here, the |tornado continued its northwestward trajectory through the |township, downing trees along Potshop Road. The circulation may |have lifted with the path being somewhat discontinuous. A somewhat|denser area of trees were downed as the tornado moved across |Valley Forge Road and northwestward along Heebner Road. Several |tree tops were sheared off in addition to several utility poles |being pushed over along Heebner Road near the intersection of |Shefley Lane. The tornado continued northwest from here, |eventually downing several hardwood trees along Hollow Road. One |tree brought down several utility lines as it fell. From here, the|tornado lifted with only a few other trees being downed a little |ways from Hollow Road in a small wooded area. |
| 14:50Z | EF2 | KDIX | PA | Bucks | Cornwells Hgts | A tornado touched down just east of the Philadelphia Mills Mall as it moved in a northwesterly direction. The initial touchdown occurred in Bucks County, very near the Philadelphia County border. Uprooted trees were found near the area of Kings Ave and Paradise Ave. The tornado then quickly approached the county line at Pocquessing Creek. |
| 14:50Z | EF1 | KDIX | NJ | Ocean | Brant Beach | A waterspout developed in Manahawkin Bay between Ship Bottom and |Brant Beach. It tracked northwestward and video footage showed the|circulation with light debris in the air crossing the Route 72 |bridge over the bay. The waterspout then continued tracking to the|northwest and passed east of Mud City before moving ashore into a|marshy area of the Manahawkin Wildlife Management area. Other |than some light debris reported in the air as it crossed the Route|72 bridge, no other damage reports have been received as of this |report. However, the circulation tracked right over the Long Beach|Island WeatherFlow weather station located north of Egg Island |and west of Flat Island in Manahawkin Bay which measured a 109 mph|wind gust at 10:53 AM EDT. This measurement was used to rate this|waterspout/tornado given the lack of actual damage. Doppler radar|data showed no evidence of a tornado debris signature. Doppler |radar data however did indicate velocities to 112 mph at about |1,600 feet above the ground very near the aforementioned weather |station. |
| 14:51Z | EF2 | KDIX | PA | Philadelphia | Torresdale | After crossing into Philadelphia County, the tornado continued moving northwest through the Philadelphia Mills Mall and then to Knights Road and Medford Road toward Dunks Ferry Road. Three exhaust |systems and 6 RTU systems were blown off the roof in less than 15 |seconds at the former Walmart Store currently undergoing |reconstruction, and numerous trees, some close to 100 years old, |were snapped or blown over along Knights Road, Medford Road, and |Dunks Ferry Road. Roofs, siding, and awnings were blown off many |homes in the area. A few cars were also tossed or turned over as |the storm moved through. The estimated wind speed in this area was|100 mph, equivalent to EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. The tornado may have briefly lifted as it continued northwestward and prepared to cross into Bucks County for a second time. |
| 14:55Z | EF2 | KDIX | PA | Bucks | Belmont Hills | After crossing back into Bucks County, the tornado, which may have lifted for a time, caused additional damage in the Southampton area of Bucks County. Numerous trees were snapped |in this area as well, with many homes and cars damaged due to |falling trees and tree limbs. The Sycamore Drive and Harding Roads|areas were hardest hit. The estimated wind speed in this area was|90 mph, equivalent to an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale.| |Current evidence again suggests the tornado lifted one more time |as the parent circulation traveled to the Doylestown area, where |it touched down one final time near the Central Bucks West High |School. Here bleachers on the visitor���s side of the athletic |field were picked up and tossed before the vortex moved on to the |Doylestown Hospital complex where at least six automobiles were |tossed some distance, and where substantial damage occurred to the|Children���s Village Day Care center with no serious injuries |reported. Numerous trees were felled in and around the hospital |center, and several metal lamp posts were bent from the wind. The |estimated wind speed in this area was 115 mph, equivalent to a |low-end EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. The tornado then |continued moving in a northwesterly direction, snapping and |falling trees, as well as causing damage to homes and other |properties, especially along and near Sandy Ridge Road, Jefferson |Avenue, and Lower State Road, before lifting along Ferry Road near|the Peace Valley Reservoir. The estimated wind speed in this area|was 100 mph, equivalent to an EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita scale. |
| 17:40Z | EF0 | KOKX | CT | Fairfield | East Norwalk | EF1 Tornado confirmed, severe damage to house on Surf Road with Roof ripped off and several pine trees snapped off.||A discrete, low topped storm cell, moving north northwest from |Long Island Sound and over Saugatuck Shores in Westport CT, |produced a waterspout, that made landfall as an EF1 tornado |around 140pm on August 4 2020. ||The waterspout was captured on video by a private meteorologist |as it was moving towards Saugatuck Shores in Westport CT around |140pm. The tornado produced severe damage to a house on Surf Rd, |with the roof being ripped off, as well as portions of the second |floor's supporting wall structure. This debris was tossed about |30-50 feet north on the property. In addition, the tops of several|pine trees in the front and side yard were either sheared or |snapped off. The tornado likely quickly lifted and possibly |tracked north as a funnel cloud for another 1 to 2 miles, before |dissipating. The funnel cloud could have touched down as a |waterspout on the Saugatuck River, south of Route 1, based on an |eyewitness report from S Compo Rd in Westport, CT. Otherwise, |downstream damage reports are inconclusive for tornado damage, but|consistent with the damaging 40 to 50 mph straight line sustained|winds and 60 to 70 mph gusts observed between 2pm and 5pm across |southwestern CT from Tropical Storm Isaias. |
| 23:29Z | EF0 | KLNX | SD | Tripp | Witten | A brief tornado touched down in an open area, causing no damage. |
| 23:39Z | EF0 | KLNX | SD | Tripp | Winner | A brief tornado touched down in an open area, causing no damage. |
| 00:38Z | EFU | KMBX | ND | Mountrail | White Earth | This tornado touched down northwest of White Earth. The tornado produced no damage to evaluate and so by National Weather Service policy was rated EFU, EF Unknow. |
| 01:56Z | EF0 | KPUX | CO | Lincoln | Punkin Center | A tornado touched down briefly in open country. No damage was observed. |
Storm reports are derived from "The Storm Events Database" (National Centers for Environmental Information) and/or "Past Storm Reports" (Storm Prediction Center).