There’s been 38 eyewitness-reported tornadoes in Florida: Why did Milton cause so many?

“We ended up with 126 tornado warnings” in Florida, Matthew Elliott, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center, told NPR.

There’s been 38 eyewitness-reported tornadoes in Florida: Why did Milton cause so many?
A downed power line and other damage from a tornado caused by Hurricane Milton is seen in Port St Lucie, Fla., on Thursday. The storm triggered some 126 tornado warnings in a short period of time, raising alarms about the impending large hurricane.

“We ended up with 126 tornado warnings” in Florida, Matthew Elliott, the warning coordination meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center, told NPR.

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