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The wind was the scariest thing because the building sways and the windows rattle, even though they’re storm-proof windows,
said Sarasota resident Carrie Elizabeth, as she emerged to inspect the aftermath early Thursday I felt like our building was very secure. So it turned out to be fine, but it was very nerve wracking,
One of the challenges with tornadoes is you don't really get warnings,
I can't confirm that all of them (the four deaths) were from the Spanish Lakes neighborhood that was hardest hit,
It is cruel to leave a dog tied to a post in the middle of an oncoming storm
Ron DeSantis, the Florida governor, added Do not do this to your pets please.
Florida's highway patrol wrote on social media At 5:39 p.m. on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, our last patrol vehicle returned to Headquarters
All the projections coming in yesterday… we didn’t expect the tornado activity that we saw yesterday,
We’ve got about 300 members of law enforcement and volunteers out there sifting through these residences on the rescue mission to see if we can get anybody else out of there,
They didn’t stand a chance,
We have flooding in places and to levels that I’ve never seen, and I’ve lived in this community for my entire life,
he said on Thursday morning Spin-up tornadoes are very difficult to detect on radar with their smaller size, and they do not have a classic severe weather signature from a supercell storm as it is a non-supercell tornado found within a line of storms,
With no specific warning often for these spin-up tornadoes, they pose a great risk as they pop up, and you could easily get wind gusts of over 90 mph, which can cause damage, destruction, and loss of life."
Discussing the gustnadoes that formed from Hurricane Helene two weeks prior, Jennifer Collins, a hurricane researcher and professor of geosciences at the University of South Florida, previously told Newsweek Gustnadoes, sometimes referred to as spin-up tornadoes, are distinct from tornadoes,
Suzanne Gray, professor of meteorology at the University of Reading, U.K, told Newsweek One of the last houses I went to looked like it had been ripped in half,
Abundant lightning can be seen in Southern Florida, where numerous tornados occurred."
The Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere published the video, and explained In the center of this vortex, the typical 'eye' of a hurricane is formed, where it is completely calm and cloudless, while the clouds at the edge of the eye pile up higher and higher,
Hurricanes move with the help of air currents at an altitude of 5 to 8 kilometers. They determine where the hurricane moves,
Hurricanes need a number of basic conditions to be able to form,
said Andreas Friedrich, meteorologist and tornado officer at the German Weather Service Often, small low-pressure areas move from the West coast of Africa with the monsoon current across the Atlantic into these warm waters,