Posted on 01/17/2016 9:15:15 AM PST by metmom
Florida officials say two adults have been killed and four children have been seriously injured after two suspected tornadoes swept through central Florida early Sunday.
The dead and injured were all members of the same family and living in a mobile home in Duette, Fla., near Tampa.
The grandparents were killed, and the children were taken to the hospital. Their father was injured as well.
At least three tornadoes have been reported in the area, where severe weather warnings were issued Sunday as storms continued to battle central Florida, according to The Weather Channel.
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So how have our FL Freepers held out?
The chance for severe weather is not over yet so prayers up for y’alls safety.
thanks for asking. we dodged a bullet
good luck..
I heard Siesta Key got a direct hit by two tornadoes.
2 dead, 7 injured in Manatee Couny as multiple tornadoes hit area
http://www.mysuncoast.com/news/local/dead-injured-in-manatee-couny-as-multiple-tornadoes-hit-area/article_9044e3e0-6c63-11e5-bc65-97c24b9c5caa.html
So far aside from some rain, little notice of anything unusual in NE Florida.
Not to demean the memories of those lives lost, it strikes me that they were “suspected” tornadoes. I mean, either they were tornadoes or they were not. People who don’t know for sure what a tornado is are responsible for global warming models. So I guess the suspected tornadoes allegedly killed two and injured 7...
Smaller tornadoes often do not leave obvious damage differentiating them from straight line winds. There may have not been confirmed reports of a tornado in that vicinity, and they were in a mobile home that would be badly damaged, either way. It’s a reasonable statement, they do not yet know if a tornado was responsible for the damage and deaths.
Between Tampa and Orlando, a lot of tree limbs down but no damage to home or church.
It was a tornado. There was straight line wind damage as well, but the damage pattern and the hook echo on the radar can confirm it, along with eyewitness accounts of when the tornado hit.
I saw straight line winds up root a willow tree once.
Of course, everyone is quick to jump on the *It was a tornado* bandwagon, not knowing that other winds can cause a lot of damage, but the NWS is there evaluating and based on the damage pattern they can determine if it was a tornado or not.
Good.
Glad to hear you’re OK.
I have a friend on Siesta Key who was caught between the two and she said it was horrible and the damage is unbelievable; it’s a real mess there and the key is packed with sightseers.
IMO, they should have blocked the bridges to any traffic onto the key unless you live there and are coming home.
This is no time for sightseers.
When people think “tornado” they think those monstrous F5’s that you see in videos. In the southeast, they’re seldom that large. Even an F1 can be fatal, but it doesn’t leave the obvious, visible trail of destruction from tornadic winds. People from the weather service come out and inspect the damage, to determine if in fact it was a tornado, in some instances. Sounds like this is one of those instances.
We are fine in Central Florida. Some trees lost limbs..power flickered a little, no biggie.Chilly and very windy...supposed to get into 30’s this week.
My friend said that it was an F2 or maybe an F3.
Weird as tornadoes that strength don’t usually hit at night. For that matter, they usually don’t hit at night. But they are a bigger danger as you can’t see them.
Usually they are their worst in the afternoon due to daytime heating.
We don’t get many here, but a fair number occur in the late evening after sunset. Spring, they can happen anytime, even in the middle of the night. Only real close call I’ve had passed over my house at night, weird buzzing sound, stripped branches and leaves out of the tops of trees.
I was within a half a mile of one once and heard it roar as it went by. Had no idea at the time what it was.
It was only later that we found out.
The sky did really weird things though, just before it hit.
I’m glad to hear you’re OK.
Apparently they don’t necessarily roar until it touches down on land. A funnel passing overhead didn’t sound at all like what I expected. It did spin up the exhaust fan in the bathroom where I was sheltering despite the power being out, due to sucking the air out of the room I guess.
Yup, the air pressure gets low around them as air is leaving the area upwards are a very high rate of speed.
My ears popped, I never knew that was something to watch out for until afterwards.
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