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Tornado skips across Miami
MIAMI - From the roof of the downtown police station, Officer Leo Carilo watched Monday afternoon's tornado lurch closer and closer.
"I saw palm trees and trees with root systems and everything a couple of hundred feet up," Carilo said. "It was something like in the movie Twister, like in The Wizard of Oz, everything flying like that."
The tornado swept past the station and Miami's high-rise condominiums, smashing windows and damaging roofs and cars in a two-mile path as people scrambled for cover. No one was killed and only five injured, including a woman who suffered a heart attack.
Byron Fain, a security officer at the Dade Regional Service Center downtown, said some glass was blown out on the first floor of the building and some cars lost windshields.
"It sounded like a wind tunnel," Fain said. "It lasted about 30 seconds and then by the time you realized it was there, it was done."
Several television stations captured spectacular footage of the twister's funnel cloud as it blew through downtown with 100 mph winds, then past condo towers and across causeways on Biscayne Bay.
In Little Havana, the roof of a three-story building collapsed. The tornado also touched down on the MacArthur Causeway, which leads to South Beach, and brought traffic to a halt.
"We thought it was going to hit us," said Joseph McCrea, a toll collector at the Venetian Causeway, which leads to Miami Beach.
McCrea watched the storm rip trees out of the ground and set off small explosions as it tore down power lines. An estimated 20,000 people lost power, but it was restored by evening. At least 35 had to seek overnight shelter.
The twister was spawned by a small supercell thunderstorm, says John Snow, dean of the college of geosciences at the University of Oklahoma. National Weather Service meteorologists in Miami issued a tornado warning for Brevard County after detecting the supercell's rotation using Doppler radar.
"The radar indicated well-organized, persistent internal structure" within the storm, says Snow, indicating it might spawn a tornado. But tornadoes are infrequent in south Florida, a place better known for gusty thunderstorms and waterspouts.
"I've lived here 32 years and this is the first time I've ever seen anything like this," said police spokesman Delrish Moss, who watched the twister blow by the police station. "I was fascinated. I found myself standing there in total awe of the magnificent power that this packs."
An American Airlines jet flying into Miami International Airport hit severe turbulence because of the tornado, injuring two passengers and five flight attendants. The A300 from Boston had 156 passengers and nine crew members aboard. It landed safely.
"It bounced so hard I thought we hit another plane or something," said Claude Remy, whose wife, Noemie, injured her neck and shoulder.
Anna Varela, who lives on an island between Miami and Miami Beach, saw the twister on TV. Then she looked out a window and saw the tornado bearing down on her house, which escaped virtually unscathed.
"They showed it on TV and then it came through like a whirlpool," she said.
MIAMI - From the roof of the downtown police station, Officer Leo Carilo watched Monday afternoon's tornado lurch closer and closer.
"I saw palm trees and trees with root systems and everything a couple of hundred feet up," Carilo said. "It was something like in the movie Twister, like in The Wizard of Oz, everything flying like that."
The tornado swept past the station and Miami's high-rise condominiums, smashing windows and damaging roofs and cars in a two-mile path as people scrambled for cover. No one was killed and only five injured, including a woman who suffered a heart attack.
Byron Fain, a security officer at the Dade Regional Service Center downtown, said some glass was blown out on the first floor of the building and some cars lost windshields.
"It sounded like a wind tunnel," Fain said. "It lasted about 30 seconds and then by the time you realized it was there, it was done."
Several television stations captured spectacular footage of the twister's funnel cloud as it blew through downtown with 100 mph winds, then past condo towers and across causeways on Biscayne Bay.
In Little Havana, the roof of a three-story building collapsed. The tornado also touched down on the MacArthur Causeway, which leads to South Beach, and brought traffic to a halt.
"We thought it was going to hit us," said Joseph McCrea, a toll collector at the Venetian Causeway, which leads to Miami Beach.
McCrea watched the storm rip trees out of the ground and set off small explosions as it tore down power lines. An estimated 20,000 people lost power, but it was restored by evening. At least 35 had to seek overnight shelter.
The twister was spawned by a small supercell thunderstorm, says John Snow, dean of the college of geosciences at the University of Oklahoma. National Weather Service meteorologists in Miami issued a tornado warning for Brevard County after detecting the supercell's rotation using Doppler radar.
"The radar indicated well-organized, persistent internal structure" within the storm, says Snow, indicating it might spawn a tornado. But tornadoes are infrequent in south Florida, a place better known for gusty thunderstorms and waterspouts.
"I've lived here 32 years and this is the first time I've ever seen anything like this," said police spokesman Delrish Moss, who watched the twister blow by the police station. "I was fascinated. I found myself standing there in total awe of the magnificent power that this packs."
An American Airlines jet flying into Miami International Airport hit severe turbulence because of the tornado, injuring two passengers and five flight attendants. The A300 from Boston had 156 passengers and nine crew members aboard. It landed safely.
"It bounced so hard I thought we hit another plane or something," said Claude Remy, whose wife, Noemie, injured her neck and shoulder.
Anna Varela, who lives on an island between Miami and Miami Beach, saw the twister on TV. Then she looked out a window and saw the tornado bearing down on her house, which escaped virtually unscathed.
"They showed it on TV and then it came through like a whirlpool," she said.
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I was there that day!! Attending a business conference at the Hyatt, we were underground and didn't know about it until afterward. Had I been in my hotel, the Intercontinental, north of the Miami River, I'd have seen it pass by just a block to the north (few buildings just north of the hotel at causeway) as it moved east. Wow!!
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