{"id":7577,"date":"2020-04-23T19:51:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=7577"},"modified":"2020-04-23T19:53:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T23:53:43","slug":"funnel-cloud-in-normandy-beach-confirmed-as-tornado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/04\/funnel-cloud-in-normandy-beach-confirmed-as-tornado\/","title":{"rendered":"Funnel Cloud in Normandy Beach Confirmed as Tornado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"ose- ose-uid-6af932743a6faf7cad70b67415f82305 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Facebook\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" class=\"embera-facebook-iframe-6af93\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FShoreandMore%2Fvideos%2F226210838694602%2F&width=600&height=550&show_text=true\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\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>&#8220;Several boats and associated trailers were tossed and flipped, with minor damage reported to at least one home on South Court,&#8221; 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 &#8220;may have lifted as it proceeded east across Route 35,&#8221; the statement said, &#8220;and approached the coast just north of Normandy Shores Beach Club.&#8221;<\/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&#8217;s 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\/lavallette-seaside\/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":7578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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":[18,17],"tags":[67,166,62,1699,1700],"class_list":["post-7577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-shore-environment","tag-barnegat-bay","tag-normandy-beach","tag-toms-river","tag-tornado","tag-waterspout"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-23-at-7.48.05-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-1Yd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}