Despite not being in ‘Tornado Alley,’ Florida ranked 6th among all states last year for most tornado activity with 103 tornadoes and 8 fatalities, which was more tornadoes than Kansas and Oklahoma. That activity was mostly attributed to tornadoes which popped up around hurricanes making landfall but Florida still has regular tornado activity as was the case yesterday in Pinellas County when a tornado touched down in Largo and flipped a house.
Largo, Florida sits north of St. Petersburg, Florida between Tampa Bay and the Gulf. It’s a peninsula within a peninsula (Florida itself) and sitting between the Gulf and Tampa Bay, two large bodies of water, occasionally leads to some truly intense weather like what happened yesterday.
There are actually two pretty surreal videos. This first was widely shared by meteorologist Denis Phillips and the second shows sheet metal raining from the skies. First up… a house flipping over sideways from the Florida tornado captured on a Ring Doorbell Camera:…