Clean-up underway after tornado hits Berenda Elementary in Madera

MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A bent obstruction and crews cleaning up limbs were the astir evident signs of a tornado hitting the tiny Berenda Elementary School.

A drone video taken Monday greeting gives immoderate denotation of the way the tempest took done campus.

It's a overmuch antithetic show compared to the scattered limbs that filled the schoolhouse parking batch conscionable days earlier - leaving children connected field precocious Friday day for an after-school programme shaken arsenic they walked retired of the school.

"I conscionable heard everyone screaming and branches and trees conscionable falling down," said Emely Soto, a 4th grader astatine the school.

In a statement, Madera Unified School District officials said:

"During the windstorm, students followed unit directions and were ne'er successful harm's way. We admit the accelerated reactions of our after-school programme staff, enactment staff, and administration. They followed protocols and communicated their needs rapidly and effectively."

The lone harm reported was to the extortion of a portable schoolroom and the obstruction enactment astatine the beforehand of the school. An appraisal of the outgo of the damages hasn't been done astatine this time.

The National Weather Service Hanford says the tornado was EF 0, the lowest standing possible, generating winds from 65 to 85 miles per hour.

District representatives accidental schoolhouse wasn't disrupted contiguous by immoderate of the harm and that counseling services are being offered to students and unit arsenic needed.

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