Forecasters in the Arden Arcade-based facility directed media queries to National Weather Service headquarters in Washington, D.C., which did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

But Kerrie Simmons, meteorologist with the National Weather Service headquarters at Morristown, said Monday afternoon that a weather survey team was sent out and no evidence of a tornado was found.

Forecasters in the Arden Arcade-based facility directed media queries to National Weather Service headquarters. Officials at the weather service’s suburban Washington, D.C., headquarters said ...