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Watch: ‘Landspout’ Tornado Touches Down in New Jersey, Flips Car

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A landspout tornado touched down in a New Jersey parking lot on Saturday, flipping over a car and causing damage on a building’s roof before dissipating, officials said.

The National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office confirmed the “brief” tornado, which was reported shortly after 2 p.m. on Saturday in Mount Laurel, located about 20 miles east of Philadelphia in Burlington County.

“Surveillance video showed the tornado touching down in a commercial warehouse parking lot. The tornado moved across the parking lot, overturning one car,” the NWS said in its report.

The tornado then passed over the adjoining warehouse building where it caused minor roof damage. Portions of roof material were pulled back causing the roof to bow. Two air conditioning units were torn off the roof, and ceiling tiles were also dislodged throughout the interior of the building, according to authorities.

The Mount Laurel Fire Department also shared a video of the same funnel cloud.

 

No injuries were reported.

“I was walking out of Produce Junction on Route 73 in Maple Shade and there was just a funnel spinning in the air and then you saw it drop down; it’s pretty serious,” witness Jonathan Mazanec told WPVI-TV.

A landspout tornado is a non-supercell tornado that does not arise from organized storm-scale rotation and therefore is not associated with a wall cloud (visually) or a mesocyclone (on radar), according to the National Severe Storms Library. There is no rotating updraft — the spinning motion originates near the ground.

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