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On Wednesday October 9, 2024, Major Hurricane #Milton was making landfall. While the focus was on the center of the storm …
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The Fort Pierce tornado received a preliminary rating of EF-3, with winds of 155mph. The tornado was 500 yards wide, just over a quarter mile.
People still buy expensive cameras when there's iPhones?
those images will stay with me forever both that EF3 and EF2 that went around the Fort Pierce area especially having family close to those areas that were effected and after 5 months later it’s like dejavu repeating over
Some of you posting are very ignorant. Google Kissimmee tornados. They killed many. And they were rated f4 at the time, later revised to F3 but they swept homes off foundations. Also google lake Mack tornadoes which occured and killed many as well, wiped out an entire trailer park north of Orlando. They happen in Florida. We have more tornadoes per sq ft then anywhere else. darn near everyday we get water spouts as well which are very common and sometimes make it onshore especially along the gulf or south florida.
Yes they usually aren’t huge or long tracked but they do happen especially in late winter when there is cold air aloft and warm air to the south with a strong jet stream.. and we have had some strong and big ones too throughout history.
Whoever does the editing is a great storyteller.
Wow!! I live right off kings hwy and indrio rd in indian river county where all these tornadoes were. Its crazy to see this video and how massive the tornadoes truly were. I was in my house with my family just watching the radar it was scary. We heard the tornado roars as they passed close by. I saw all the damage the days after and it was insane and we are still recovering. Amazing footage
I remember seeing the coverage of this that day. Seeing true supercells with the signature of monster tornados was truly shocking– many hurricanes have tornadoes, but until now tropical tirnadoes had been weak and short lived. These tornadoes would have been more like what is seen over the Great Plains or in the Midwest. To see them in a hurricane was truly shocking.
Florida has had some outbreaks of large and deadly tornadoes in the past, but they all occurred at night. In 1998 there was a horrible tornado outbreak in the Orlando area that killed many people. Those tornadoes all hit in the middle of the night. In the early 2000's there was also a horrible tornado outbreak across northern Lake County that killed over 20 people, which occurred during the middle of the night. This is the first daytime tornado outbreak that I've ever seen in Florida with tornadoes of this size and strength.
Music is not needed, it’s self explanatory
I’m so glad I found this video as I was one of the many homes that were affected during Milton tornadoes I will never forget me and my family and our four dogs sitting inside of a closet screaming for dear life as my mom screams for her mother, as she’s in Las Vegas on the phone Thinking we’re all gonna die as my father is holding the door closed, but we think my dad‘s trying to peek to see the tornado, but it’s actually the tornado opening the door and keeping it open as my father has to go within the strength of the tornado and himself. I’m very thankful that I was not one of the houses or many people who have lost their lies throughout this whole experience but I will never forget walking outside after the second tornado hit and seeing a whole tree on top of my home and they’re being a random tree branch in the middle of the road and trees being everywhere and just not recognizing the place, I lived in even though I didn’t lose my home I did in the end as I now have to move out because many landlord have decided after this tragic disaster had happened that they are going to Market their houses after fixing them up sadly, my house was one of those that were affected by the landlords decisions, I hope for those who went through this experience have gotten help they needed and found their new homes and have gotten help by FEMA or other resources that are out there I’m very thankful to be alive and I will never forget this ever in my life or forget that feeling of thinking I wasn’t gonna make it out alive as we had to evacuate our home at 9:22 thinking we weren’t gonna make it out as we drove out of holiday Pines and we saw trees and branches everywhere and we drove through a mini flood right in our spot and we drove out and we see two semi trucks on our sides of the road. We see powerlines down in my gas station completely destroyed and we continue to go down Kings Highway and we have to turn around as there is a powerline in the middle of it, I’ll never forget the fear I felt but thank you for for this video as I have never been able to see it the way it was in the clips that was getting hit by tornadoes across me completely lost their house and it was completely demolished
I’m in Brevard county, I’ll never ignore a warning again. We’ve never had a tornado like these but never been hit with hurricanes like these either.
That Wednesday morning, after we evacuated to lake placid from bradenton, we noticed Milton making a southernly turn ao we headed around the southeastern side of okechobee towards miami and ran right into the clewiston tornado. We watched it form about a mile in front of us, made a U-turn and went back towards LaBelle when we started seeing debris that looked like corn stalks floating theough the air ever so gently like snowflakes. I knew it was time to hit the gas and get out of there. We watched the storm pass over hwy 27 and just as it did, we made a beeline under the southern edge of it, headed west/SW towards miami. Very scary.
Great coverage!
The big one ended up 2 miles east of me on the barrier island in Vero Beach, but prior to that two small ones came through downtown, four blocks west.
A few minutes prior to those our power went out when something tried to touchdown but didn’t manage to. Bunch of trees wrecked though. Streets blocked all over a 3×5 block area.
i'm a floridian but i never knew there's a place here called yeehaw junction till now
Absolutely an epic afternoon in recorded history regarding FL tornadoes… The fact that these were supercell based meant these weren't the average landspout F-0's… And you might as well have had unicorns running next to them in the Everglades for sake of such a rare sighting..
Thank you for not screaming at the top of your lungs like, well you know who, (no disrespect to them, it's just a little much)
I live in Orlando and I was more worried about tornados in my area then the hurricane
Literal wedge tornadoes in Florida from a hurricane.
Nature truly made me speechless…
WOW. I remember this hurricane hitting my area. Thankfully, we never got any of the tornadoes from Milton but the videos I’ve seen of the Milton spawned tornadoes are TERRIFYING… they looked like something out of Kansas.
That huge wedge tornado looks like an EF5. It looks more like an Oklahoma tornado than a Florida tornado.
Gaura nitai gauranga.
On the bottom left is a family of sandhill crains. Beautiful birds stand 4 to 5 ft tall.
My goodness that Major Tornado Outbreak we had in Southern & Southwestern Florida was totally like anything I’ve ever seen before, and I in my life never went through 50 or 60 Tornado Warnings in 1 day. This Tornado Outbreak in Southwestern Florida will be the only event with Milton that I will absolutely never forget. And this South Florida Tornado Outbreak that I am considering this to be the outbreak of the century since this is Florida’s first Major Tornado Outbreak in over 7 years since January 22, 2017. This is why the entire state of Florida needs Tornado sirens including Southern & Southwestern Florida they also need Tornado Sirens.
Orlando here, grew up next to UCF and all I wanted to do was crawl in a storm cellar, of course none around so I opted for the inner stairwell of a hotel. Absolutely way more terrifying than a hurricane!!
I’m in central Florida Dundee Milton’s eye came right over us and as scary as that was the tornado warnings every 5 minutes was the scariest thing I’ve ever gone through! Just not know if one could pop up at anytime around us was so scary!
I live in vero beach, 10 minutes away from here…. We were getting tornado warnings every 5 minutes telling us to take cover, it was so scary I had my toddler in our laundry room with some cookies and a tablet for over an hour trying to shield her from what was going on. We could hear a tornado in the distance. Several places within 5 minutes of our home had a tornado touchdown and completely ruined everything. I feel so lucky we avoided being struck or directly in one’s path. It was a heartbreaking day, many lives lost
Every time I saw this video, I thank God's I am I live 😢😢😢😢
This tornado was .04 miles from my home in Lakewood Park FL, the CVS and 7-11 are my neighborhood stores. The store that was damaged that you ran to at the end of the video is just around the corner from me. I feel so gratefull that my home was okay, I know others that didn't do so well. I sat in my closet with my two dogs, and asked for protection from our higher source, my angels and guides. They provided. I must comment on the amazing video that you provided. One the bottom left, first there were 2 sandhill cranes, then 4. What a great shot of all of them getting out of dodge! Those gracefull, lovely birds stay together as a family for their entire lives.
This footage just proves how insanely quick they move. They floored it to get away and turn around for more shots, but the gap didn't get as big as I expected. Just proves how many people think they can outrun these and don't live to tell the story.
Floridian here born and raised, 63 years and i never expected to see anything like this, 40 tornadoes before Milton even hit land. It was absolutely terrifying for hrs with the warnings coming every five minutes😢 so sorry for all that ended up unknowingly in the paths of so many, my area was spared
🙏🏾 for my city FP.
1 mile from my house, I couldn’t believe what I saw. I’ve never seen that much isolated damage all over town
That's so wild to see, we rarely get large tornadoes here, usually they're small and in the EF0-EF2 range.
A truly historical day for not just Florida but for tornado history. I dont think this is being spoken about enough
Really impressive chasing. Watching from Brisbane Australia
I’m 30 and I’ve lived in Florida my whole life and I’ve never seen a tornado this big, this long lived, and this many tornadoes from a hurricane/tropical storm. This was unreal. I remember sitting at home looking at velocity readings on the radar and seeing that was bone chilling to me because even though I was 150+ miles away, I still felt scared for these people in that area because that rotation signature on that radar was incredible.
October 9, 2024 was a Freak of Nature day for us in Florida!
The monstrous hurricane and the HUMONGOUS and MULTITUDE of tornadoes has NEVER happened before!
It’s very VERY scary!
Great Video!
I'm in Port St Lucie, and the tornadoes came one right after the other all afternoon, plus some VERY intense lighting
Yeehaw junction sounds about right for a tornado spawn zone
Unreal footage man, great job nailing the forecast and execution of this event!
Amazing content hope all Make it through 🙏 all the way from Nebraska 💪😞
Listen to that roar! That tornado is actually insane for Florida. They rarely have basements and they probably don’t even know what to do in this situation. Terrifying
Never thought big in florida
I wonder if it’s trickier to track tornadoes during a full on hurricane, I’ve watched so many tornado footages of all states that have them, in a sense, more commonly known for tornadoes, seen one a block away from my house , orange and avocado ,was intense enough for me, here in Loxahatchee, Florida, feeling blessed it didn’t touch us, but praying for others,🙏🏻
The fort pierce monster killed people and destroyed a whole 55+ community our community is still searching for people lost in it
I’m in Cape Canaveral and like to storm chase and love tracking tornados in the plains but I was NOT expecting this. Fully prepared for the hurricane not the wedge tornados. Thankfully we were spared here although a couple miles south in cocoa beach they got an EF1. I was watching the PDS tornadoes south of here and was really starting to panic. This is a great video though thank you!