A rare tornado tore through a town west of Seattle on Tuesday afternoon, leaving what authorities have described as 'catastrophic' damage in its wake.
The National Weather Service has dispatched a storm damage survey team Port Orchard, Washington, to determine just how powerful it was.
No injuries have been reported in the town of 14,000 as of Wednesday afternoon.
Dramatic images show houses with their roofs completed ripped off and dozens of trees toppled in the street as residents assess destruction on their properties.
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A rare tornado tore through Port Orchard, Washington, on Tuesday, leaving what authorities have described as 'catastrophic' damage in its wake. Aerial footage from local officials shows the damage from above
The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office said the storm was contained mainly to neighborhoods in east and south Port Orchard. One affected area can be seen above before (left) and after (right) the tornado blew through
The twister touched down on Tuesday around 2pm local time, according to the National Weather Service. A witness posted a video of the massive column on Twitter (above)
Port Orchard is located about 15 miles west of Seattle, across Puget Sound on the Kitsap Peninsula (as seen above)
Residents can be seen surveying the damage to their homes from the street in the hours after the storm passed through
Powerful winds ripped the roof clean off the top of the home pictured above surrounded by massive amounts of debris
As of Wednesday morning no injuries have been reported in the town of 14,000. Residents and emergency personnel seen walking along debris-littered Harris Road after it the tornado ripped through the town
Workers cut the limbs of a downed tree to make it easier to remove from a store parking lot on Wednesday in Port Orchard
Rescue teams work to remove a tree that had fallen in front of a business, damaging its roof, on Wednesday morning
The roof of Salmonberry Dry Storage appears to have been torn off in the storm, causing the structure's sides to collapse
A man uses a bulldozer to plow through the wreckage at the storage facility on a wet Wednesday morning
Based on radar imagery and video evidence, the tornado touched down south of Port Orchard shortly before 2pm, the NWS in Seattle said on Twitter.
The Kitsap County Sheriff's Office told local media the damage was 'catastrophic' and contained to neighborhoods east and south of a Walmart in Port Orchard.
About 50 buildings were affected, Deputy Scott Wilson told the Seattle Times. Emergency teams were unable to survey the area before nightfall on Tuesday, Wilson said.
Relief efforts kicked into high gear on Wednesday as local law enforcement has been working with emergency management partners to learn the extent of the damage.
The sheriff's office says power lines were down and roads were closed in the area.
The state of Washington averages just two and a half tornadoes per year, and December tornadoes are extremely rare, according to meteorologists.
Port Orchard is located about 15 miles west of Seattle, across Puget Sound on the Kitsap Peninsula.
Residents are seen evacuating their homes on Harris Road in the wake of the tornado, an unusual occurrence in Washington
Emergency response efforts were stunted when night fell on Tuesday, but some crews were seen working in the dark (above)
Relief efforts kicked into high gear as the sun rose on Wednesday morning and rescue crews gained visibility
Strong winds tore apart a construction site, even ripping open a steel storage container, as seen in this photo from the NWS
Workers use a chainsaw to break down trees that had landed on the roof of a home in Port Orchard
Port Orchard resident Matt Hargis is seen walking through a mess of downed trees behind the Walmart in Port Orchard
A cluster of trees on the edge of one Port Orchard neighborhood were flattened by high-force winds
Anastaisia Zunk, whose home had its roof completely torn off by the tornado, posted photos of her damaged home on a GoFundMe page set up to help her family cover repair costs.
The description on the page, which has raised more that $3,200 in just 14 hours, reads: 'The hope is to ease this family's worries during this difficult time during the holiday season. Everything in the house has been destroyed due to the storm following the tornado.
'It's gonna be a while to re-build and to get the family back in the house, so anything helps.'
Emily Silverman told local TV station KOMO-TV she was driving to a store with her husband at the time that the tornado touched down.
'It's raining and it's pouring down really bad and before you know it everything was flying everywhere,' Silverman said. 'Our car back windows blew out, our side windows blew out. I thought I was a goner.'
The couple's two-year-old son was in the back seat.
'So glad he's OK because the whole back window just busted in,' Silverman said.
'It was just crazy. I've never seen anything like this in my life.'
A roof strut sticks up out of a yard on Plymouth Way after the twister tore through the Seattle suburb on Tuesday afternoon
Emergency responders huddle on Harris Road to map out the response as the town begins to assess the tornado damage
A badly-damaged home is seen among dozens of toppled trees, many of which fell straight into the structure
A towering tree on the side of a road was blown over, tearing its massive network of root out of the asphalt (above)
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Main photo article A rare tornado tore through a town west of Seattle on Tuesday afternoon, leaving what authorities have described as ‘catastrophic’ damage in its wake.
The National Weather Service has dispatched a storm damage survey team Port Orchard, Washington, to determine just how powerful it ...
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