Angel Brinkley walks with her baby, Cheyenne, along a stretch of road with debris after apparent tornadoes hit Suffolk, Va. Monday April 28, 2008. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Delores Johnson)
....The twister in this city outside Norfolk cut a fickle, zigzagging path 25 miles long through neighborhoods, obliterating some homes and spraying splintered wood across lawns while leaving those standing just a few feet away untouched....
...The National Weather Service confirmed that tornadoes struck Suffolk, Brunswick County, about sixty miles west, and Colonial Heights, about 60 miles northwest. Meteorologist Bryan Jackson described Suffolk's as a "major tornado."
The Brunswick County tornado was estimated at 86 mph to 110 mph, and cut a 300-yard path of destruction, Jackson said. It struck first, at about 1 p.m., said Mike Rusnak, a weather service meteorologist in Wakefield.
The second struck Colonial Heights around 3:40 p.m., he said.
The tornado believed to have caused damage over a 25-mile path from Suffolk to Norfolk touched down repeatedly between 4:30 and 5 p.m., Rusnak said.
At least 200 were injured in Suffolk and 18 others were injured in Colonial Heights, south of Richmond, said Bob Spieldenner of the Virginia Department of Emergency Management....
A house in Driver, Va. is shown after a tornado blew the side off of it Monday, April 28, 2008. The National Weather Service said three tornadoes touched down in Virginia on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Daily Press, Dennis Tennant)
