By Adriana Navarro & Mark Puleo
One day after a destructive tornado struck eastern Pennsylvania, (click here) causing the partial collapse of a car dealership and injuring several people inside, National Weather Service meteorologists confirmed that an EF3 tornado had torn through the area with peak winds of up to 140 mph.
The most intense damage, the NWS office in Mount Holly, New Jersey, said on Friday, was to a car dealership and an adjacent mobile home park.
Just after 7:10 p.m. EDT Thursday, amid an outburst of severe weather in the mid-Atlantic, the twister struck near the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania, according to the NWS Storm Prediction Center. The town in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, sits about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia.
Bensalem Public Safety Director Fred Harran said it was the worst damage he had ever seen, comparing the destruction to that of which a viewer might see "on a TV show."
"It just looked like a bomb went off. I mean, it's gone," he told ABC News. "I've been doing this for 34 years. I never saw that kind of devastation from a storm."...
