Tornado Touching Ground in Downtown Pensacola

I took a video of the clouds about 5 minutes after it hit downtown. It is a really cool swirling cloud, but no funnel. Maybe somebody can show me how to get it from my phone to SOWAL!!!

I took a video of the clouds about 5 minutes after it hit downtown. It is a really cool swirling cloud, but no funnel. Maybe somebody can show me how to get it from my phone to SOWAL!!!

Can you e-mail from your phone?

Weather Channel just said a "large tornado" was reported in Pensacola and it's a "very serious situation". I had called Nemours to reschedule an apointment at around 1030am and they said there was a tornado near the hospital/clinic. Scary!

Good Lord! Tornados and Red Tide - it's Armageddon down there! Maybe the tornado will wipe out the Red Tide

Can you e-mail from your phone?

I think, but I have never done it.

Just mentioned Cervantes(sp) street as well. Said roofs are off houses and over 5100 customers are without power.

Mentioning A street and E street

Tornadoes hit Escambia

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071018/NEWS01/71018003/1006

Multiple tornadoes have been reported in Escambia County.

They are:

Barrancas and Main Streets. Emergency dispatchers report cars have been overturned and one home has lost its roof. The bridge could be closed.

On Panferio Drive on Pensacola Beach. Minor damage has been reported.

At Blue Angel Parkway and Sorrento Road near the Wal-Mart. Trees along Sorrento Road close to Bower Road have been uprooted.

In Myrtle Grove, moving northeast toward Ferry Pass and onto Pace in Santa Rosa County by later this morning.

Escambia County dispatch has been flooded with calls of damage. At one point dispatchers said dozens of people "enjoying the tornado" lined Cervantes street.

One particularly powerful storm moved north along 9th Ave. leaving a trail of downed tress and power lines toward Cordova mall.

Another tornado warning just issued for FWB/Mary Ester.

Tornado warning for southern Okaloosa County until 12 noon.

I hope you all are safe down there. I'm watching the news at Detroit Metro and it all sounds quite serious. I'll be checking this board to see how SoWal is doing.

WEAR TV in Pensacola is airing this news. I can't get the website to work on my computer, but surely they have some video.

So, all of you guys that have PC's, here is the website

http://www.weartv.com

They are showing the space ship house on Pensacola Beach. It is damaged as well.

Now reporting a Tornado coming onshore in Mary Esther.

CNN says you all are in for a very bad weather day......y'all hang in there and batten down the hatches! I've been through a tornado (Huntsville, 1989 in the Winn Dixe Shopping Ctr - roof came off) and it's scary....keep us posted!

The sky is turning black over Destin right now.

Just snapped this pic from my office window....

The sky is turning black over Destin right now.

Just snapped this pic from my office window....

:funn: Click your heels & repeat after me...there's no place like home, there's no place like home...

The sky is turning black over Destin right now.

Just snapped this pic from my office window....

:funn:

CNN says you all are in for a very bad weather day......y'all hang in there and batten down the hatches! I've been through a tornado (Huntsville, 1989 in the Winn Dixe Shopping Ctr - roof came off) and it's scary....keep us posted!

I am in Huntsville Bikermom (my hometown). I was living in Mobile at the time of the 1989 tornados, but my sister and brother were here. Thankfully, they were ok. I am glad you were.

I hope all of you will be safe today. We are expecting severe storms here this afternoon!!!!

Hey, Kathydwells! I am also from Huntsville (married into it - my husband grew up there and I lived there the last 20 yrs.). Where did you get the red T-shirt that hates "orange"???We're in TN now and he needs one to wear to work Fridays! I miss Hooterville!!!

I am in Huntsville Bikermom (my hometown). I was living in Mobile at the time of the 1989 tornados, but my sister and brother were here. Thankfully, they were ok. I am glad you were.

I hope all of you will be safe today. We are expecting severe storms here this afternoon!!!!

I was away at college when the tornado came thru HSV in ’89 and had to spend a very scary 2 hours working the phones before I knew that my parents were OK.

The tornado came within a few blocks of their home and my Mom drove thru the path of the tornado on her way home from work. Fortunately, she arrived at the Airport-Whitesburg intersection probably 2 minutes after the tornado and was unhurt.

She stopped to help a woman who’s car had been thrown on top of an electrical transformer. The woman had no recollection of how she had got there. Scary.

Hey, Kathydwells! I am also from Huntsville (married into it - my husband grew up there and I lived there the last 20 yrs.). Where did you get the red T-shirt that hates "orange"???We're in TN now and he needs one to wear to work Fridays! I miss Hooterville!!!

Wow, small world. So did you hubby graduate high school in Huntsville? We moved to TN is 1980, and a host of other places, but I keep coming back "home". I won't leave again unless it is SoWal. ;-)

You can find the shirt at Bamastuff.com

Anyone else have to go pick up kids? What are you going to do? WAit it out or go soon? Here is the latest update from weahter.com for Santa Rosa Beach ...

BAY-COASTAL WALTON-WASHINGTON- 149 PM CDT THU OCT 18 2007

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ALERT IN EFFECT FOR BAY...SOUTHERN WALTON AND SOUTHERN WASHINGTON COUNTIES...
* UNTIL 245 PM CDT
AT 144 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF DE FUNIAK SPRINGS TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF SANTA ROSA BEACH...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
THESE STORMS WILL BE NEAR... VERNON BY 235 PM CDT. UPPER GRAND LAGOON BY 240 PM CDT. PRETTY BAYOU BY 245 PM CDT.
WINDS 40 TO 50 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THESE STORMS. THESE STORMS ALSO HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING WATERSPOUTS NEAR THE COAST...AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE CLOSELY MONITORED FOR FURTHER WARNINGS. THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF STREETS AND LOW LYING AREAS...AND ARE ALSO PRODUCING FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING.

I don't like tornadoes when there is no basement to hide in!

Rethinking my plan to grill dinner.