{"id":215352,"date":"2017-09-15T15:17:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=215352"},"modified":"2017-11-04T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T18:47:07","slug":"umatilla-tornado-confirmed-national-weather-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/umatilla-tornado-confirmed-national-weather-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Umatilla tornado confirmed by National Weather Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UMATILLA \u2014 Police Chief Adam Bolton said he knew it was a tornado that tore through his city Sunday \u2013 leaving damaged rooftops of Umatilla Inn and Umatilla Elementary School among its destruction.<\/p>\n<p>But on Friday, his suspicions were confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>According to a press release issued by Lake County spokeswoman Elisha Pappacoda on Friday, the National Weather Service confirmed an EF-1 tornado, with estimated peak winds from 95-100 mph, formed near East 8th Avenue in Umatilla about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, uprooting and snapping several trees in an open field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew that what it was,\u201d Bolton said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>There were no fatalities or reported injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The twister hit as Hurricane Irma was making its way up Florida. According to a NWS storm survey, the twister moved toward a residential neighborhood between East 8th Avenue and East Collins Street and also peeled back the roofs from several homes.<\/p>\n<p>Damage continued into North Lake Community Park where a scoreboard was toppled and three power lines were snapped.<\/p>\n<p>The tornado moved across Lake Pearl and into the Olde Mill RV resort where it destroyed about ten recreational vehicles and damaged at least 25 others.<\/p>\n<p>The survey added it continued west toward downtown Umatilla and damaged the roofs of the Umatilla Inn and the elementary school &#8212; then a home on Babb Road outside the city limits.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UMATILLA \u2014 Police Chief Adam Bolton said he knew it was a tornado that tore through his city Sunday \u2013 leaving damaged rooftops of Umatilla&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26806,"featured_media":215353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2924,2925,1774,1186],"class_list":["post-215352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","tag-irma","tag-police-chief","tag-tornado","tag-umatilla","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/09\/umatillainn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26806"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}