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EVENT TIME...5:30 PM TO 5:35 PM THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN NEAR A RAILROAD TRACK...THEN TRACKED TOWARD THE NORTHEAST ACROSS A CEMETERY...CROSSING WEST MAIN STREET THEN INTO THE GROUNDS OF WEIMAR HIGH SCHOOL. THERE WAS EXTENSIVE TREE DAMAGE IN THE CEMETERY WITH NUMEROUS TREES SNAPPED WITH DEBRIS DOWN IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. AT THE HIGH SCHOOL...THE PRESS BOX AT THE FOOTBALL FIELD WAS DESTROYED AND LIGHT POLES WERE SNAPPED. THE ROOF OF A STORAGE BUILDING WAS LIFTED OFF. ALL OF THIS DAMAGE WAS CONSISTENT WITH EFO AND EF1 DAMAGE ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE. THERE WAS A SMALL AREA OF EF2 DAMAGE AT THE RAILROAD TRACK WHERE NUMEROUS BOX CARS OF A PARKED TRAIN WERE PUSHED OFF THE RAILS AND OVERTUNED. THE BOXCARS ON THE EASTERN PORTION OF THE TRAIN WERE PUSHED TO THE NORTH...THOSE ON THE WESTERN END WERE PUSHED TOWARD THE SOUTH. AN EYEWITNESS DRIVING BY THE HIGH SCHOOL AT THE TIME OF THE STORM DESCRIBED A SWIRLING COLUMN OF DEBRIS OVER THE FOOTBALL FIELD WITH DEBRIS GETTING PROJECTED OUT. THERE WERE EIGHT INJURIES WITH THIS TORNADO WHICH MOSTLY OCCURRED WHEN A PAPA JOHNS TRUCK WAS OVERTURNED IN THE HIGH SCHOOL PARKING LOT. |
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