RUSKIN – Thursdays severe weather around Florida caused damage to many homes.
“Our radar is right here and anything green is air going through the radar anything red is air going away. So if I look here we have a little circulation right here we don’t know if its on the ground or not,” says Daniel Noah, meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Ruskin.
Noah and his team tracked Thursdays storms that broke records and cause damage to nearly 80 homes in Zephyr hills.
“So rain fall across the area. Very unusual to get 4-6 inches of rain over 36 hours in December in Florida. The record was 6.71 south of Lakeland,” says Noah.
The Suncoast also experiencing record-breaking rain fall. “We look at Sarasota airport we had 4.18 inches and that broke a record that dates back way to 1940,” he says.
The National Weather Service reports Thursday severe weather caused 4 tornadoes. Including an EF0 tornado that touched down in Myakka city.
“So the tornadoes were in Port Charlotte near Myakka City Fort Mead and Lake Wales,” says Noah
With the storms passing Noah says the upcoming holiday week will be pleasant.
“After tonight though things are going to calm down and we’re going to go into a more dry pattern and temperatures slowly warming, so it’ll be nice for the holidays,” says Noah.
