Tornado touches down near Port Orchard

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The National Weather Service reports that a tornado touched down south of Port Orchard in Kitsap County Wednesday afternoon, sometime shortly before 2 p.m.

The full extent of the damage is unclear, but Kitsap County’s Emergency Management Team estimates approximately five to seven homes were damaged by fallen trees and debris. The tornado also caused a natural gas leak in an area with approximately 20 to 24 homes.

People in the area of the gas leak were being evacuated to a local Walmart parking lot.

The NWS will not be able to survey the area until Wednesday night, and will be sending a team Thursday morning.

http://mynorthwest.com/1220110/tornado-port-orchard/

[uppityperson]

1. Kitsap Daily News article. Looks like Farmer George's building escaped, but what s mess.

Best to all. N side of Olympic peninsula, I was noticing the very dark sky around this time.

https://www.kitsapdailynews.com/news/breaking-tornado-reportedly-causes-damage-in-port-orchard/

[icymist]

2. Letting you know we're okay here.

Stupid thing flew over my house in an extreme heavy downpour. Sounded like a low flying jet!

[uppityperson]

3. I'm glad it missed you. What an odd thing to happen.

Clallam co had big downslope winds, trees down, power out on Fri.
Kitsap co has tornado Tues.
Looking right, looking left, we have wind warning again tonight.

I'm glad you didn't get blown away.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. Up here in Whatcom County, winds were so outrageous

Over 60mph, that we lost power for TWELVE HOURS this weekend. Power went out at 5:38pm PST on Saturday and didn't come back on until 5:17am the next morning, Sunday.

Monday, I was out buying about two dozen more candles (the BIG ones), more flashlight batteries and a generator.