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ellisonz

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Sat Mar 10, 2012, 02:24 AM Mar 2012

Tornado Hits Lanikai, Enchanted Lake Subdivision [View all]

Water Spout Moves Ashore, Damages Homes
Catherine Cruz KITV4 News Reporter
POSTED: 6:07 pm HST March 9, 2012
UPDATED: 7:22 pm HST March 9, 2012

HONOLULU -- The National Weather Service says the twister began on the water, and made its way on land after 7a.m. cutting traveling a mile and a half inland.

Sara Mai Kui recalled how powerful the water spout looked as she watched it from the Kailua boat ramp. She described the water coming off the shore creating what looked like a bowl of water. But not long after it made landfall, and she thought..

"Oh, no! There's going to be another tornado, and it’s going to take somebody's house," Mai Kui said.

The twister came up on Mokulua Drive destroying a vacation rental. The winds pulled off up part of the roof and blew it into a neighbor’s yard, where it sits- up in an ironwood tree.

Read more: http://www.kitv.com/news/30649791/detail.html#ixzz1oh0oGbAP
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