3/31/11 NOW: FL

[Jason Harris]

Check out the cell heading to Polk City, tornado already reported with cell:

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THE PUBLIC REPORTED A TORNADO NEAR HILLSBOROUGH
RIVER STATE...OR 8 MILES NORTHEAST OF TEMPLE TERRACE...MOVING EAST
AT 60 MPH.

Impressive at this early hour before we've got the daytime heating and further intensification of wind fields later on today.

 

[jeremy wilson]

Cell looks to be weakening as it heads through a very populated area. I did some work around the Lakeland/Polk City area late summer and if I recall correctly theres a lot of people and business right where this cells tracking.

 

[Paul Sherman]

Nasty Looking Storm just offshore from Tampa Bay / Clearwater as well which looks to hit soon on current track

 

[Warren Faidley]

Fox News reporting "70 people trapped in a collapsed airport hanger." Did not catch location. Hopefully the report is inaccurate. Not known if it's tornado related. 12.00 CDT.

 

[Brandon Lawson]

My brother lives in the Tampa Bay area. He was eating lunch at a Quiznos on the south side of town and said a bunch of emergency vehicles just raced by. Apparently a tornado touched down just two blocks from him. He mentioned something about a semi-truck getting rolled. Storm had a nice couplet anyway.