Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, October 6, 1995                   TAG: 9510060079
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WEST POINT                                LENGTH: Short

TORNADO RIPS OFF HANGAR ROOF

The twister also damaged three other planes, state police spokeswoman Mary Evans said. There were no reported injuries, she said.

Evans said the damage to the planes is estimated by airport officials at $146,000, and damage to the hangar at $10,000.

The hangar had ``Home of the Peninsula Skydiving Club'' written on it, she said. On Sept. 10, a plane carrying 11 members of the club crashed into a house moments after its takeoff from the airport, killing all 11 people on board and a man who was sitting on the back porch of the house.

The tornado left the cinderblock hangar wide open, Evans said.

``The roof was just peeled back,'' she said.

Power also was out to one of the buildings at the airport because of downed power lines, she said.

Two other unconfirmed tornadoes were reported near West Point, according to Rick Curry of the National Weather Service in Wakefield. He said the other reported sighting could have been of the same twister.

- Associated Press