It’s becoming more and more likely a tornado touched down in Manassas on Saturday night.
“Based on the radar images we’ve reviewed, and reports of damage from Bristow to Manassas, there is better odds this storm produced a tornado,” said Luis Rosa, with the National Weather Service.
There is a consistent pattern of damage between Linton Hall Road in Bristow and Godwin Drive in Manassas. Clean-up crews with the City of Manassas on Sunday were mopping up the mess left behind by the storm at the baseball fields at the intersection of Route 28 and Godwin Drive.
A team from the National Weather Service is expected to head to Manassas on Monday to survey the damage.
They’re the ones that would be able to make an official call as to whether or not a twister did touch down in the area.
The National Weather Service is also reviewing radar and an image of what could be a funnel cloud spotted last night over Quantico. A local storm report posted to the weather service’s website noted a 62 mph gust of wind recorded at the height of the storm Saturday night.
“By looking at the photo, it’s not clear cut, so we’re not confident right now that it was a tornado,” said Rosa.
Heavy rain and wind moved through the region about 7 p.m. Saturday. What fell was the remnants of Tropical Storm Bill that slammed into Texas earlier in the week. So much rain fell, portions of Route 1 in Woodbridge — between Occoquan Road, and at Neabsco Creek — saw heavy flooding overnight. Traffic was diverted around the area by local police.
Summer arrived on Sunday, and you can expect temperatures to remain hot this week. Expect mostly sunny skies with highs in the low 90s, and isolated thunderstorms in the evening and temperatures in the low 70s. On Tuesday, it’ll be mostly sunny — even hotter with temps in the high 90s — with another chance of thunderstorms in the evening.
