Terry L. Schenk
EF0
CENTRAL FLORDIA TORNADOES
I was up monitoring radar this morning as a squall line, ahead of a strong cold front, moved through Central Florida. Shear values went up dramatically and a supercell formed and moved across Sumter, Lake, and Volusia counties. I live in Seminole County but chose not to head north to intercept since, 1) most tornadoes that form in this kind of setup in Florida are rain-wrapped, 2) the cell was moving at 50-65mph, and 3) it was, of course, dark. This storm will again point out the need for folks to have a NOAA weather radio in their home as the death toll stands at 14 and will likely go higher. Shown below is a velocity shot of the cell as it moved across Interstate 4 a couple of counties north of Orlando. It is not unusal for us to have tornadic storms in Central Florida during an El Nino winter. In fact, we have had tornadoes on November 7th, November 18th, Christmas Day and now on Groundhog Day! All of that and we have not even reached the climatological peak for severe weather which occurs in the last two weeks of February/first two weeks of March. I am headed to the National Chasers Convention in Denver in a couple of weeks and plan to chase in the Plains several times this Spring. For now, however, the action is right here close to home!
Terry
www.SignificantEvent.com
![TORCF.jpg TORCF.jpg](https://stormtrack.org/data/attachments/1/1392-886d16990e545fc1e86b1a387c05beed.jpg)
I was up monitoring radar this morning as a squall line, ahead of a strong cold front, moved through Central Florida. Shear values went up dramatically and a supercell formed and moved across Sumter, Lake, and Volusia counties. I live in Seminole County but chose not to head north to intercept since, 1) most tornadoes that form in this kind of setup in Florida are rain-wrapped, 2) the cell was moving at 50-65mph, and 3) it was, of course, dark. This storm will again point out the need for folks to have a NOAA weather radio in their home as the death toll stands at 14 and will likely go higher. Shown below is a velocity shot of the cell as it moved across Interstate 4 a couple of counties north of Orlando. It is not unusal for us to have tornadic storms in Central Florida during an El Nino winter. In fact, we have had tornadoes on November 7th, November 18th, Christmas Day and now on Groundhog Day! All of that and we have not even reached the climatological peak for severe weather which occurs in the last two weeks of February/first two weeks of March. I am headed to the National Chasers Convention in Denver in a couple of weeks and plan to chase in the Plains several times this Spring. For now, however, the action is right here close to home!
Terry
www.SignificantEvent.com
![TORCF.jpg TORCF.jpg](https://stormtrack.org/data/attachments/1/1392-886d16990e545fc1e86b1a387c05beed.jpg)
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