The National Weather Service has confirmed two tornadoes touched down — in Stafford and Loudoun counties — as Tropical Storm Debby moved through Thursday night.

Around 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 8, the NWS began issuing tornado warnings as the storm tore through Fredericksburg, Falmouth, Spotsylvania, Catlett, Middleburg and western Loudoun.

On Friday and over the weekend, the weather service Sterling forecast office sent survey teams to areas where tornadoes were suspected by radar or damage on the ground, and found that two EF-1 tornadoes touched down, one in western Stafford about five miles from the Fauquier County line and another in western Loudoun into Clarke County.

Stafford tornado

At 7:49 p.m., an EF-1 tornado with 90 mph winds touched down in the area of Kellogg Mill and Mt. Oliv

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