Deadly Tornadoes Hit Florida

UPDATE: Tornado reports continue this morning -- at 9:40 AM, the NWS received this report: "PUBLIC VISUAL REPORT OF TORNADO ON GROUND VIEWED FROM US HWY 1 TWO MILES SOUTH OF GRANT, FL" [Google Map]. Also at 5:35 AM this morning, this report: "POSSIBLE TORNADO. DE LAND [Google Map] WASTE TREATMENT PLANT. DAMAGE TO ROOFS, VENTS, TREES. DOORS AND WINDOWS BLOWN OUT OF SOME BUILDINGS." Radar loops from east-central Florida this morning are available here.

Breaking News: Turn on your TV. Fox News is showing aerial footage of massive destruction in central Florida after a night of tornadoes left at least 14 dead and many still missing. More information including radar images to be posted here soon. CNN says "The storms toppled trees and power lines and sent tractor-trailer trucks careering off Interstate 4."

Some radar images from AccuWeather.com RadarPlus are shown below; the tornado reports are shown as "X"'s.

PHOTO CAPTION: People walk through a residential neighborhood after damage from a tornado that hit early in the morning in The Villages, Fla., Friday Feb. 2, 2007. Storms blew through central Florida early Friday, killing at least 14 people, flattening dozens of homes and a church and lifting a tractor trailer into the air, authorities said. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

UPDATE: Steve Penstone sat down with Henry Margusity to get a meterological analysis video of the storm (PREMIUM | PRO), including the radar images below.

RADAR MAP JUST BEFORE THE STORMS HIT (MOVIE)

RADAR WINDS (STORM-RELATIVE) (MOVIE)

RADAR WINDS (BASE VELOCITY) (MOVIE)

Remember that some of these storms were in similar places to the Christmas Tornado Outbreak in Florida.

And ironically on Groundhog Day 2006, a tornado hit New Orleans overnight.

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