Videos: Salisbury tornado flips cars, mows down trees

By Jason Samenow August 8 at 11:30 AM

Dramatic video has emerged of the apparent tornado that blew through Salisbury, Md., on Monday around 1:40 p.m. The tornado overturned three cars, downed trees and damaged buildings. No serious injuries were reported.

In the video above, a security camera at Hopper’s Tap House captures a car cartwheeling from the parking lot into a roadway, carried by the storm’s violent winds.

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Hopper’s Tap House is on South Salisbury Boulevard (also known as Route 13), just south of Salisbury proper. The cars were flipped in the parking lot of the Pavilion at 1400 South, according to WBOC, the CBS television affiliate in Salisbury. One of the cars that flipped landed on top of two others.



Vehicles damaged by a possible tornado Monday in a parking lot in Salisbury, Md. The National Weather Service is investigating the possibility that a tornado touched down in Salisbury. (Ralph Musthaler/Daily Times/AP)
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Jason is the Washington Post’s weather editor and Capital Weather Gang's chief meteorologist. He earned a master's degree in atmospheric science, and spent 10 years as a climate change science analyst for the U.S. government. He holds the Digital Seal of Approval from the National Weather Association. Follow @capitalweather