{"id":16341,"date":"2020-04-23T19:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=16341"},"modified":"2020-04-23T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:53:38","slug":"funnel-cloud-in-normandy-beach-confirmed-as-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/04\/funnel-cloud-in-normandy-beach-confirmed-as-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Funnel Cloud in Normandy Beach Confirmed as Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-video\" data-allowfullscreen=\"true\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ShoreandMore\/videos\/226210838694602\/\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block;\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado came ashore in the Normandy Beach neighborhood, a collection of streets split between Toms River and Brick townships.<\/p>\n<p>Several funnel clouds and waterspouts were seen Tuesday as a string of storms moved through the area. The video embedded with this story shows a funnel cloud near South Seaside Park that was part of the same storm system, <a href=\"https:\/\/shoreandmore.com\/\">as captured by the Shore and More General Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, a waterspout formed between Silver Bay and Kettle Creek, on the mainland side of the bay, then moved ashore at the Normandy Beach Yacht Club near South Court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeveral boats and associated trailers were tossed and flipped, with minor damage reported to at least one home on South Court,\u201d the NWS statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The tornado was measured as an EF-0 storm, a weak tornado with wind speeds between 65 and 85 m.p.h.<\/p>\n<p>The tornado \u201cmay have lifted as it proceeded east across Route 35,\u201d the statement said, \u201cand approached the coast just north of Normandy Shores Beach Club.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tornado returned to its waterspout state over the ocean and did not cause further damage, the NWS statement said.<\/p>\n<p>Other storms that were described by many residents as tornadoes could not be confirmed. The NWS said storms in Toms River and Brick Township\u2019s mainland areas were associated with a front moving through the area.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2020\/04\/funnel-cloud-in-normandy-beach-confirmed-as-tornado\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Weather Service has confirmed a tornado came ashore in the Normandy Beach neighborhood, a collection of streets split between Toms River and Brick townships&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shore-environment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-23-at-7.48.05-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4fz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}