Weather Service Confirms Tornado Hit Enumclaw Area
Posted: 8:12 am PDT September 7, 2009Updated: 3:24 pm PDT September 7, 2009
ENUMCLAW, Wash. -- A team with the National Weather Service has determined that a funnel cloud caught on camera Sunday was an actual tornado that touched down.Carl Cerniglia with the NWS confirmed to KIRO 7's Chris Legeros that the tornado hit the Enumclaw area.SLIDESHOW: Scenes Of Devastation In Enumclaw
The storm brought down trees, knocked out power and damaged some buildings in nearby Buckley.WATCH IT: Storm Fells Trees, Downs Power LinesWhen the storm first hit at about 7 p.m., it took out power to about 1,300 customers in the Enumclaw area, said Puget Sound Energy.Tyson Gamblin posted this video on YouTube of a fierce storm cell passing through Enumclaw. He said he had to mute the audio because his wife was screaming.SLIDESHOW: Funnel Cloud Photos
Alan Gamblin of Enumclaw told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News he saw the storm come in."Everything was coming this way and then all of a sudden, a minute later, it came around the house the opposite way," Gamblin said. "And so it picked up a lot of lawn furniture and took it down over the fence, and we lost a couple trees out here."Near Buckley, the storm dropped a shed on top of a tractor. Also underneath it, a vintage GMC pickup truck and gas pump.Part of a barn nearby also collapsed in the vicious winds.
The storm brought down trees, knocked out power and damaged some buildings in nearby Buckley.WATCH IT: Storm Fells Trees, Downs Power LinesWhen the storm first hit at about 7 p.m., it took out power to about 1,300 customers in the Enumclaw area, said Puget Sound Energy.Tyson Gamblin posted this video on YouTube of a fierce storm cell passing through Enumclaw. He said he had to mute the audio because his wife was screaming.SLIDESHOW: Funnel Cloud Photos
Alan Gamblin of Enumclaw told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News he saw the storm come in."Everything was coming this way and then all of a sudden, a minute later, it came around the house the opposite way," Gamblin said. "And so it picked up a lot of lawn furniture and took it down over the fence, and we lost a couple trees out here."Near Buckley, the storm dropped a shed on top of a tractor. Also underneath it, a vintage GMC pickup truck and gas pump.Part of a barn nearby also collapsed in the vicious winds.
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