Footage is surfacing of the moment when a car was thrown into mid-air during a terrifying tornado that is taking place in Florida.
According to FoxNews, The strong tornado rolled through North Palm Beach around 5pm, leaving many residents to battle powerful winds and flying debris. One driver captured the moment on camera when a small vehicle was dramatically tossed into the air after the wind caught it, rolling it several times to the surprise of others on the highway. It is unknown if the people in the car were injured.
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The National Weather Service Miami warned that a second line of “strong to severe” thunderstorms was forecast to develop during the early morning hours of Sunday and move across the area through Sunday afternoon.
A Tornado Watch has been issued for much of Florida until 2 p.m. EDT. This watch includes Jacksonville, Tampa, Orlando, Miami and the Florida Keys. A Severe Thunderstorm Warning is also in effect east of Gainesville until 5:45 a.m. EDT. https://t.co/8vw0JgTpnU pic.twitter.com/HAI7juSwCj
— Breaking Weather by AccuWeather (@breakingweather) April 30, 2023
Boy wtf is up with Florida weather??? Tornado watch til 2pm, my hurricane shutters sound like they bout to rattle
Off the wall how hard the wind blowing n
Rain?! Kmt— Mad Maxxxx⚔️ 🇧🇿 (@BzeCoolie) April 30, 2023
This isn’t the first time that we have seen something severe when it comes to tornados. Three years ago, evere weather struck Central Texas early Sunday, bringing “gigantic” hail and heavy wind while traveling east through Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas. As CNBC reports, eleven people were killed in Mississippi, and six more died in northwest Georgia. Two other bodies were pulled from damaged homes in Arkansas and South Carolina.
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The National Weather Service tallied hundreds of reports of trees down across the region, including many that went through roofs and downed power lines. Meanwhile, Meteorologists warned the mid-Atlantic states to prepare for potential tornadoes, wind, and hail.
These tornadoes come in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. However, Mississippi officials said the tornadoes’ threat to the community trumped that of COVID-19, forcing locals to flee their homes for safer shelters:
“That’s always an issue – we emphasized to everyone that if they went into a shelter they had to maintain hygiene, wash their hands and use sanitizer and use masks but at the end of the day, life safety had to persist over everything else and the greater risk of the tornado overcame COVID,” Mississippi Emergency Management Agency Greg Michel said to Good Morning America.