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OUT OF THE BLUE | Surprising EF-2 tornado
Port Orchard twister’s brief trail of destruction Residents, businesses left to clean up mess BY BOB SMITH
Kitsap News Group
PORT ORCHARD — Photos of the destructive remnants left by the EF-2 surprise winter tornado were captured by Independent photographers, from its touchdown just west of Bethel Road near Sedgwick to Harris Court. The twister’s visit was as brief as it was unexpected. Rotating winds from the unstable coldfront rain squall dropped
down at just before 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 18. The powerful tornado, exceedingly rare for these parts, sped on a path less than a mile and a half in length. After a minute and a half, it was over. Unfortunately for the residents and business people left having to clean up the tornado’s catastrophic mess, the recovery has just begun. — Bob Smith is regional editor of the Port Orchard Independent. Robert Zollna is a contributing photographer for the Kitsap News Group. Robert Zollna | Independent
Above: A recreational vehicle is totaled after being pummeled by downed trees from the tornado that hit the city Dec. 18. Right: A home is irretrievably destroyed by the tornado.”
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A silver Toyota sedan was picked up and spun around by the tornado. It was dropped on its rear end on Bethel Avenue.
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The rear window of a sedan was blown out by debris sent flying from a tornado Dec. 18.
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Nick Bond, the city’s community development director, said construction regulations for Port Orchard call for a wind load limit of 85 miles per hour, well below the top winds of the tornado. In any event, tornadic events are a challenge for most wooden structures anywhere. “While the devastation is dramatic and is affecting many families this holiday season,” Putaansuu said, “it could have been far worse.” The chilling aspect of Port Orchard’s catastrophic nearmiss from a direct hit is that the tornado appeared practically from nowhere. Unlike other areas of the nation, particularly in “Tornado Alley” sections of the Midwest and South that are more familiar territory for severe thunderstorm and tornadic activity, the Puget Sound region doesn’t have a network of sirens that alert communities of incoming tornadoes. But even if the area had been equipped with sirens, there wouldn’t have been time to flip the switch. Unlike the mega-twisters that frequent
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A home on Southeast Serenity Way is littered with broken tree branches and debris following the tornado that dropped from the skies Dec. 18. other parts of the country, system wasn’t expected to be this tornado was only on the severe. Cook said the squall ground for a couple of minutes that rolled through was part of at the most, during its 1.4-mile a rain-soaked cold front common to the Pacific Northwest journey on the ground. So, combined with the in the winter. suddenness of the tornado According to the National and the unfamiliarity of this Oceanic and Atmospheric kind of weather pattern, a Administration, just 120 “tornado events” were recorded later appearance could have in this state from 1950 to meant many dozens of people outside walking about the area 2016. Almost all of those and at the mercy of punishing events were registered in the EF-0 to EF-1 range — with winds. winds 3-second wind gusts of Kirby Cook, a meteorologist with the National Weather between 65 and 110 miles per Service, told the Seattle Times hour. that the tornado was unexThe Port Orchard twister, pected — and was certainly believed to have produced not in the forecast for Dec. winds of 115-130 miles per 18. While thunderstorms hour, was rated as a “strong” were forecasted, the weather EF-2 tornado.
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