Multiple powerful tornadoes ripped across Florida hours before Hurricane Milton made landfall Wednesday, tearing off roofs, overturning vehicles and sucking debris into the air as the black V-shaped columns moved through.
Deaths were reported in St. Lucie County on Florida's Atlantic Coast, but local authorities did not specify how many residents had been killed.By Wednesday evening, more than 130 tornado warnings associated with Milton had been issued by National Weather Services offices in Florida.The appearance of tornadoes before and during hurricanes isn't unusual, scientists say, but the twisters' ferocity was.
AP PHOTO'There's an incredible amount of swirling going on,' Gensini said of the conditions that allowed for the twisters to grow. 'Those tornadoes were just in a very favorable environment.'The warming of the oceans by climate change is making hurricanes more intense, but Gensini said he did not know of any connection between human-caused warming and the deadly tornadoes that Floridians experienced with Milton.Approximately 12.
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