The bottom line is that almost all tornadoes in Virgnia in an average year are EF 0 or EF 1 twisters. This one wasn't. What struck me as very strange was that even if a weak funnel cloud forms we get tons of emails and calls alerting us to the fact that it is occuring. With this storm we were on for an hour or so talking about tornado warnings but not getting any reports of damage. Even after calling the authorities in the communities where we had seen warnings we were told there were no reports of damage. Then all of a sudden that changed. We started getting multiple reports of damage in Suffolk from a tornado. We didn't know just how bad it was though for another half hour or so until our reporters got on the scene. When they started sending back pictures of the horrific damage we were amazed. Entire houses were flattened down to the slab foundations. Tomorrow we will found out exactly what strength the storm had as it moved through but there is no doubt we had at least one of the 30 strongest tornadoes in Virginia history and it is very possible that we had Virginia's third ever F4 tornado that we know about.

Luckily as far as we know there were lots of injuries but no deaths from the storm.

Now the cleanup begins.