Cold-Funnels have formed three at a time at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. They do touch down, and could capsize a small vessel, as well as do minor damage when they come ashore which has happened.
A tornado is NOT a tornado when some idiot doppler-weather operator at local tv stations cry wolf everytime they interpret rotation in a thunderstorm. In Hampton Roads VA (viewing) area all three tv stations have made these false alarms dozens times since they obtained doppler radar. In my memory they have been wrong 100% of the time. The few real tornados we had showed no rotation on Doppler, which means either idiots designed the software, idiots operate it, or both.
It used to be that only when a public safey officer or certified spotter called in a tornado on the ground was an actual warning sounded. Back then a Watch meant something, and a Warning meant run like hell, right now. Nowadays the NWS and tv stations have dumbed-down the Warning to useless babble that interupts tv programming and rarely ever coincides with an actual tornado. Nobody pays much attention to Warnings anymore and you can't blame them when the alarms are always false.
Jack