Tornado Warning: Powhatan/Chesterfield/Goochland/Nottoway/Amelia

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WAKEFIELD VA
504 PM EST WED FEB 24 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WAKEFIELD HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  POWHATAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  NORTHWESTERN CHESTERFIELD COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  EAST CENTRAL PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  SOUTHEASTERN GOOCHLAND COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  NORTHWESTERN NOTTOWAY COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL VIRGINIA...
  AMELIA COUNTY IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA...

* UNTIL 530 PM EST
   
* AT 503 PM EST...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JETERSVILLE...OR 9 MILES NORTH OF CREWE...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THIS DANGEROUS STORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AMELIA COURTHOUSE...MORVEN...TOBACCOVILLE AND BALLSVILLE AROUND 515
  PM EST.
  MACON AND CHULA AROUND 520 PM EST.
  POWHATAN AROUND 525 PM EST.
  SABOT AND MANAKIN AROUND 530 PM EST.

OTHER LOCATIONS IMPACTED BY THIS TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM INCLUDE
CROZIER...RODOPHIL...BURKES TAVERN...MICHAUX...JEFFERSON...GOODWINS STORE...
SKINQUARTER...MAIDENS...LAKE POWHATAN AND PROVOST.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.