Twister cleanup begins in Largo
A Largo neighborhood is coping with critical injury after a twister touched down on Wednesday. FOX 13’s Matthew McClellan stories.
LARGO, Fla. – The Nationwide Climate Service is surveying injury on Thursday after a twister touched down in Pinellas County amid extreme storms on Wednesday.
Twister in Largo
The backstory:
FOX 13 meteorologists say a twister touched down in Largo close to Ulmerton and Belcher Roads on Wednesday night. NWS is working to substantiate that it was a twister.
Video captured by Lori Gill reveals the twister lifting a cellular house within the Ranchero Village neighborhood, flipping the house onto its aspect earlier than dropping it again down.
Neighbors advised FOX 13 {that a} 76-year-old girl was contained in the cellular house, and survived with minor accidents. Her cat, nonetheless, stays lacking as of Thursday morning.
Largo Fireplace Rescue stated Wednesday night time that vital storm injury was reported in that neighborhood, together with Bay Ranch Manufactured Houses. Each neighborhoods are situated off Ulmerton Rd. between Belcher Rd. and 66th St. N.
One other video from a FOX 13 viewer reveals the twister sending particles flying.
SkyFOX additionally captured aerial views of the injury on Thursday morning.
Dig deeper:
Storm injury was additionally reported in areas like Pinellas Park, the place crews labored to assist residents and start assessing the storm’s impression.
What’s subsequent:
NWS says the outcomes of its storm survey ought to be launched by Thursday afternoon.
The Supply: This story was written with info from the Nationwide Climate Service and particulars gathered by FOX 13 Information workers.
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