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North Escambia Storm Damage Was Not A Tornado, Says National Weather Service
April 22, 2020
The National Weather Service has determined that damage in the Quintette, Cottage Hill and Cantonment areas early Monday morning was caused by poweful straight line winds, not a tornado.
“Damage was typical of severe straight line winds with no evidence of a tornado path,” the NWS said. Winds were estimated at 80-85 mph.
A storm survey crew found a corridor of significant wind damage from West Quintette Road east-southeast through Cottage Hill toward the Escambia River. Damage included roof damage to some homes with significant tree damage across the area.
Once the storm passed into Santa Rosa County, it created a brief EF-0 tornado track from Ephrem Lane to Bradley Drive in Pace with winds estimated at 75 mph. But most of the damage in the Pace area was from straight line winds estimated at 80-85 mph.
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24 Responses to “North Escambia Storm Damage Was Not A Tornado, Says National Weather Service”
@Layinnthesun are you kidding? When it’s that close and that dark all you can think of is hunkering down and pray for the best outcome you can get. You don’t get up and walk around because something might fly through the window. Besides my house was shaking. Even my dogs came and walked on top of us to hide .
Anybody got video?
I was awake… I moved here from Oklahoma…I heard it and have the damage to prove it was a tornado. So not sure of the reason behind the lies but there is no doubt, this was a tornado.
Couldn’t have anything to do with insurance payouts I’m sure! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want more damage for proof for them, but come on y’all!! It might not have touched the ground the whole time, but it certainly dragged it’s knuckles!
Microburt maybe i worked at B.A.E Systems. In mobile alwhen the carnival cruise ship was pushed out to the gulf of Mexico drom the winds
Years ago I remember straight line winds taking out a strip mall in Atmore. Whatever you want to call it, it was a dangerous and scary night.
I can tell you this…I was here the whole time. It was a tornado! The trees down in my yard are twisted off. I didn’t hear a “train” but it was loud and my brick house shook
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then obviously it’s a cat.
I live right next to quintette like someone’s yard separates me from that road and I can 100% say without a doubt, it was a tornado. Come look at the trees that are TWISTED together and the tree that got pulled out of the ground (roots and all). Plus I have a friend who is literally a meteorologist and she even said it was a tornado, like come on now…..
I’ve never experienced anything like it. The alarms telling us there is a TORNADO WARNING, the sound of the calm then the wind as it got louder and louder , the house shaking and the trees falling…. and then just rain. I haven’t seen anyone in the Jack’s Branch area either so how do they determine this? Just ask my neighborhood what they think.
I agree tornado hail was very heavy in Florida town
Our weather report said that there was a tornado in the area, and Emergency call by phone said to take cover. Tornado! Does radar lie too?
And Ivan was only a Cat 3. Ok then… Call them what you want – do they need to re evaluate their scales/graphs/data? I guess they know best but it still scared the crap out of many and did damage. Thursday may be a repeat. ughhh Thanks for the update on what was decided.
Tho the Nat’l Weather Service surely has some competent people somewhere they were not here. I grew up where tornados were not so uncommon – I’ve seen many, watched several, and I know their unmistakable sound. It’s important to note that tornados can ‘hop and skip’ their way thru an area (touch down and retract repeatedly) causing damages without an obvious continuous path on the ground. I could never be convinced that there were no tornados. We’ve seen devastating damage done by incredible direct winds (hurricanes) but TWIST a large tree? Hhmmm. I didn’t see a tornado must most definitely heard it and it left it’s mark. So glad no one was injured!
Thank you canfirst responder we are grateful that you feel our plight!! I have Ins adjuster here now assessing my damage. He is in100 % agreement of tornado damage to my dwelling.
Funny they didn’t even mention the Ensley area! Guess all of the damage in this area doesn’t count! Agree with all other comments about it being more than straight line winds!
Come on over to my house at the corner of Kingsfield and Chemstrand roads and I’ll show you the path as it came down through the trees. All in line with the toppled and twisted trees. Apparently the straight line winds were only a hundred yards or so wide.
I was there on quintette road when it hit. It was a tornado. First came the really hard rain, then small hail, then BIG hail. I watched a tree break off and spin around the area. Then I saw a travel trailer slide 100 feet to the east. Then a trampoline came back west and wedged up against a house.
As a firefighter for Escambia County and first on scene after it ended I can say it was 100% a tornado. You can see 100% the path the tornado took and where it ended.
Williams ditch had twisted trees, so you mean straight line winds do that?
They can say what ever they want! The weather that came through Beulah was a twister! Not once did we see anyone from the weather service on Frank Reeder Rd. I have been through one before and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to distinguish a tornado!
They weren’t here, didn’t hear it, didn’t see the path we saw immediately afterward. In Cantonment, it was a tornado.
It is true that straight line winds can cause this kind of damage. Many times, people mistake this type of damage to be from a twister.
You will never convince me you are giving us correct data. What another cover up. You did not report a tornado in Oct of 2014 either!!.We definitely heard the roar of a tornado and felt the shuttering of our trailer rocking. Just because the damage does not look like what you think of a tornado does not mean it was not there. We the citizens know better.