PETALUMA, CA — A video of a tornado touching down Thursday outside of Petaluma has gone viral and the National Weather Service was working to confirm it.
The video shows a funnel cloud touching down shortly after 11 a.m. Thursday in Two Rock, an unincorporated community of Sonoma County.
“This is an unconfirmed report of a tornado outside Petaluma,” National Weather Service meteorologist Nicole Sarment said in an email to Patch. “We have had partner agencies on the ground searching for damage and other eyewitness accounts. The video appears to be authentic and we’re doing our due diligence to confirm.”
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Watch the video on YouTube.
Once confirmed through other sources, the weather service will issue a Local Storm Report; if the tornado damaged anything, the event will be entered into the weather service’s StormData database.
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The last time a tornado touched down in Sonoma County was March 18, 2011, in Santa Rosa.
It destroyed a metal building and severely damaged a metal gate, Sarment said.
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