Update summary of the Petersburg, Virginia Tornadic Activity of Friday,
    August 6, 1993:

    COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. - The death toll resulting from Friday's tornadic
  activity throughout the area remains at three.  The people were killed as
  they headed for the main doors at the time when the tornado hit the
  front of the store.  The incredibly low number of deaths, although tragic,
  was added to some 170 injuries reported throughout Southeastern Virginia.
    Police Captain Larry Williams said, "They were in the process of com-
  ing out of the store because the power was out."  The twister cut a swath
  of forty to fifty feet in width.
    In nearby Prince George County, another person was killed at a construc-
  tion site.
    Captain Williams said everone thought to be at the Wal-Mart store site
  had been accounted for on Saturday although searchers continued to sift
  through rubble.  Earlier engineers stabilized walls and ceilings.
    Crews worked to tear down an unstable wall that teetered toward the
  store's ravaged interior.
    Additional crews searched brush near a small lake behind the store in
  fear that some people might have been swept outside by the strong winds
  estimated to have reached near 200 miles per hour.  Weather Service spokes-
  people reported that winds probably diminished to near 125 miles per hour
  as the assault on the Wal-Mart store commenced.  Happily, no one was found
  in the brushy areas.
    Meanwhile, in the aftermath, store officials met with its 400 workers
  at a nearby distribution center in Sutherland.
    "There was a lot of hugging, a little bit of tears, a lot of laughter.
  They are supporting each other, leaning on each other.  We'll be back,"
  said Jane Arend, a spokeswoman for the department store chain.
    Tornadoes of such magnitude are rare in Virginia.  Not since 1959, when
  10 people were killed by an Albemarle County twister, has Virginia seen
  such devastation.
    The storm also ravaged the Petersburg's historic Old Towne district
  producing $10 million damage estimates.
    Also, a separate twister crossed the James River at a bridge near Hope-
  well.  A wave of water and estimated 110 mph winds knocked several
  tractor-trailers over on the span as if they were toys.