Downtown Miami tornado - WTVJ - 1997-05-12 - 1 of 2

Name: Downtown Miami tornado - WTVJ - 1997-05-12 - 1 of 2
Uploaded: 2023-07-04
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Uploaded: 2023-07-04

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Read a transcript preview of “Downtown Miami tornado - WTVJ - 1997-05-12 - 1 of 2” from malgent, uploaded on 2023-07-04.

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[0:11] about Florida usually when this happens

[0:13] we see down power lines all over town

[0:15] Tony Jennifer thanks Ari certainly there

[0:18] have been a number of power surges this

[0:20] afternoon but so far as we know there

[0:22] are no reports of complete power outages

[0:24] and actually as far as we know at this

[0:26] point in time we haven't heard any

[0:27] reports of very serious injuries

[0:29] although clearly some minor injuries out

[0:31] there we're hopeful that continues to

[0:32] hold true as serious as some of the

[0:34] damages we have seen it could have been

[0:36] a lot worse considering what we went

[0:37] through this afternoon well it's such an

[0:39] odd thing to see a tornado of this kind

[0:42] of magnitude in a downtown area in a

[0:44] heavily populated area they usually tend

[0:46] to occur further out west or in areas

[0:48] that are more wide open and and sparsely

[0:50] populated David Damian is in our Storm

[0:52] Center now am I correct David this is a

[0:55] very rare occurrence well you generally

[0:58] don't see this you're right Jennifer

[0:59] tornadoes I guess for whatever reason

[1:02] really tend to avoid large objects as

[1:04] buildings it seems like there's

[1:05] something about the structure May

[1:07] interfere with the formation of the

[1:08] tornado itself but this tornado was

[1:10] unusual it stayed on the ground around

[1:11] for a long time and I witnessed it and I

[1:15] saw it as it actually formed and it did

[1:17] Skip around a little bit but something I

[1:19] wanted to point out that Ari may have

[1:21] touched on we're not out of the out of

[1:22] the danger right now we are still under

[1:24] a general tornado watch until five

[1:26] o'clock this afternoon and conditions

[1:27] are