He said when tornados move across mobile home parks, you see the damage seen at Honeymoon, with roofs and sheet metal torn off. Teams assess damage in Dunedinīrian LaMarre, meteorologist-in-charge of the National Weather Service’s Tampa Bay area office, was assessing damage along with other team members Thursday morning at Honeymoon Mobile Home Park, 1100 Curlew Road, in Dunedin. Palm Harbor Home Depot helping with clean upĪ five-member crew from the Palm Harbor Home Depot store arrived at Honeymoon Mobile Home park with tarps, wood and heavy manpower to start cleanup.īrian Wilson said crews from 12 other stores will join them.Ĭolleen Wright, Times staff writer 11:01 a.m. Mobile homes were damaged by a tornado that touched down during the early morning hours Thursday in Dunedin. Read her full story about surviving the storm. She jumped up and headed toward the door, but it wouldn’t open. ”I could hear metal twisting and the wind,” Martin said. When she sat on the bed, the ceiling above her cracked, dust and debris falling on her short, silver hair. She went to the bathroom to get her glasses to read the alert. Sondra Martin, 73, was asleep in her home bordering the Pinellas Trail and Bayshore Boulevard when her cell phone sounded off with a tornado warning at 1:40 a.m. Of the 230 residences in Honeymoon Mobile Home Park, three were severely damaged and possibly totaled early Thursday morning. “Which is good - we’d rather it not reach the ground.” 1:22 p.m. “It just never ended up reaching ground,” Davis said. Davis said the cloud never touched the ground and was not a tornado. The two tornadoes - one that touched down in Dunedin and Clearwater, and the other in Crystal River - were both rated EF2 tornadoes, according to preliminary reports from the weather service, Davis said.Īn EF2 tornado is classified as a “strong” tornado with wind speeds up to 135 mph.ĭavis said the weather service will release a full report later that will include the tornadoes’ size, path and areas of destruction.Ī little before noon, the weather service issued a tornado warning in areas of Pinellas and Hillsborough after radar picked up a funnel cloud that began around Clearwater Beach and pushed north toward Odessa. The National Weather Service is working on finishing its reports on the two confirmed tornadoes from early Tuesday morning, Davis said. Tornadoes classified as EF2, according to preliminary reports Jack Prator, Times staff writer 2:23 p.m. Read more on possible flooding across the Tampa Bay area. “It’s not expected to be too bad,” she said. Nicole Carlisle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Tampa Bay office, said coastal residents should expect water levels to continue rising as high tide approaches, but that flood risk should lessen as the tides wane. Stacy Rebas cleans water and debris from the entrance of Antonia’s Boutique & Gifts where Dodecanese Blvd flooded on Thursday at the Tarpon Springs Sponge Docks.
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