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you have any pictures or videos, if you can do so, send it to [email protected]. we can breathe a little bit easier in hampton roads, but that is definitely a twister when you see that kind of damage to a tree. that was very likely a tornado had moved through the town of waverly. that looks like something was pretty close to the level, not just roof damage. if we can go back to our last picture, again, it is a small area, and then there is a wider area which has a lot of debris. you can see some vehicles and some twister damage there. some roof damage. it looks like a structure could have been leveled. again, we are looking at, quite certainly looks like a tornado went through the waverly area, which is, of course, right on in up here. we have no reports of damage into the hampton roads cities, but we do have numerous tornado warnings. one tornado warning that does remain for north county. we re going to take a look at what is going on in that particular area it extends ....
things can come flying through windows and come in your house and cut you with glass. always cover your head with your hands. if you re in an emergency situation, it s a good thing to know if it happens really fast, tip your couch over and get underneath and cover your head with your hands and pillows. mobile homes are never safe during a natural tornado or even severe thunderstorms. it s suffer to be in a ditch. the wind goes over the top of you and the debris carried by the wind goes over the top of you and same thing goes, cover your head with your hand. it s also never safe to be in a car, a vehicle, any kind of vehicle when there s a tornado moving on through. it s better to be in a ditch than that, in a depression in the ground where the winds and things carry the debris by the you. we ve shown you what s going on, round 2 for the evening hours and will happen later. round 1 moved through very rapidly between around 2:30 and 5:00. and really it s exiting the area, ....
we all know that can knock down the trees. we ve seen small hail. everything happening at the same time has made this a really dangerous day. getting it right now, it continues up into parts of franklin county. so let s talk about some of the tornado warnings. here s one of them, and this one looks to have gotten more intense. we might analyze this one a little more. that tornado warning goes until 7:15 for johnson, wayne, and sampson county. that s producing some rain. but let s zoom in a little closer on that little hook echo that looks to be exiting parts of northern sampson county, south there of bentenville, moving along the wayne county, johnston county line. let s try to go in a little closer on that one. that, if we turn on our analytical mode. we can see which directions the see them start to rotate, that s when we issue a severe thunderstorm warning. when you see greens, that s telling you the winds are moving one direction. when you see the red, that tells yo ....
the massive ef 3 tornado that hit pensacola, florida with winds topping out at 155 miles per hour, the strongest of the year. and one person said his neighborhood resemblees a war zone. thousands of people up through new jersey are without power and thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed due to the storm. delta even brought pizza for frustrated hungry passengers after their flight was rerouted to syracuse. as new york city saw rain and heavy wind strong enough to blow over this tractor trailer on the george washington bridge. and a vehicle burst into flames. and meteorologist bill karins will join us in just a few minutes for the latest forecast. and donald trump continues on the indorsement front, trump got his first congressional backing from new york s collins who previously backed jeb bush. california s duncan hunter who recently made news by vaping at a hearing said he would also support trump. but former gop nominee mitt romney warned that a quot ....
thing to pass along to you no rain in our vicinity, no storms. all of that has now moved out. i really don t have rain chances in the forecast until middle of next week. so go ahead and enjoy this dry weather. here s your fast forecast. partly cloudy this morning. we ll be at 45 at 8 a.m., 53 at lunchtime today where gusts could be near 45 miles per hour. overall the afternoon hours close to where we should be for this time of year, 56 our high, then we re back to 51 by 6 p.m. this evening. it will be cooler and calmer by that point in time. we ll get to more and the weekend ahead in a moment but let s go ahead and checking in with traffic on this thursday morning. a quiet start to the day, i-440 just a few cars in either direction, no fog, no rain out there this morning either but we do have one early morning accident in johnston county, red house road there s an incident watch out for that area. it looks like it s minor secondary streets but again nonetheless if you ....