NHC Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Milton 5-10 October 2024

[Randy Zipser]

On March 31, 2025, the National Hurricane Center released its Tropical Cyclone Report on Hurricane Milton, the strongest hurricane in the Atlantic Basin in 2024. Milton made landfall just after dark on the west coast of Florida in Sarasota County, about 150 miles south of my location. At my location in Citrus County, we had continuous tropical-storm force winds from the north for seven-and-a-half straight hours, but suffered no major damage. It was a very memorable event, but did not occur during daylight hours for most of the Florida peninsula, so there were limited video/chasing opportunities, except for some strong tornadoes over South and East Coastal Florida in spiral bands upon approach earlier in the day. Please see the link below:

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/AL142024_Milton.pdf

 

[Randy Zipser]

This was one of the most photogenic tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Milton near Lake Placid, FL, on October 9, 2024. It was rated either EF-1 or EF-2 and was over open-country in a sparsely-populated area of the state: