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A tornado that touched down in northern Broward County Wednesday morning overturned trucks, crashed cars and was blamed for the loss of electric power for thousands of utility customers. Injuries to two people were minor, authorities said.
“It was a tornado, we’re estimating the highest wind was somewhere in the 90 to 100 mph range,” said Robert Molleda, warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Miami. “Elsewhere along the path it was less than that.”
Molleda said the area with the heaviest damage was in Coconut Creek, in the Wynmoor Village Retirement Community.
The storm also struck around Broward College North in Coconut Creek at about 9:30 a.m., and at Florida’s Turnpike a few minutes after that.
A spokeswoman for Broward College said in an email that because of the continued possibility of bad weather, classes and business operations were canceled through 5 p.m. Classes scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. or later were expected to be held.
The storm then traveled toward northeast toward Pompano Beach, east of the turnpike.
Weather conditions including severe thunderstorms that fostered Wednesday’s tornado are expected to last through Thursday afternoon, Molleda said.
“We’re certainly not done with the bad weather, even if it may or may not be tornadic,” Molleda said. “Tornadoes are not out of the question but we’re not saying it’s a very high likelihood.”
Courtesy of sun-sentinel.com
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