Reporter & Farmer | Amanda Fanger

Kelly Serr with the National Weather Service of Aberdeen looks over a displaced building wrapped in fence panels and records additional damage wrought by a tornado four miles north of Bristol, at the farm of Doug Johnson, right. A preliminary report from the National Weather Service puts the Sept. 10 tornado at an EF-1 with an estimated peak wind speed of 90 miles an hour. It was one of multiple tornadoes confirmed in the area last week.

Multiple tornadoes touch down, one damages rural Bristol farm

by Amanda Fanger

reporter@reporterandfarmer.com

Doug Johnson was working in the shop last week at his rural Bristol farm when he decided to step outside and look up at the clouds – just in time to see a tornado headed his way.

“I was working in the quonset and thought, ‘this doesn’t feel right,’” he said. “I walked outside and I saw the tornado.”

The National Weather Service (NWS) later classified this weather incident as...