Possible Tornado From Elsa Injures Several at Navy Base in Georgia; Falling Tree Kills Driver in Jacksonville
The Weather Channel 3 hrs ago Ron Brackett and Jan Wesner Childs
Several people were injured at a campground on a Navy base in southern Georgia and a person was killed by a falling tree in northern Florida as Tropical Storm Elsa trekked across land Wednesday. There are reports of multiple injuries and damage to multiple recreational vehicles in the base RV park, and also reports of damage to buildings and structures on the installation, a statement from officials at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay said. Many of the injured were transported to local medical facilities for treatment.
Possible Tornado From Elsa Injures Several at Navy Base in Georgia; Falling Tree Kills Driver in Jacksonville
The Weather Channel 2 hrs ago Ron Brackett and Jan Wesner Childs
Several people were injured at a campground on a Navy base in southern Georgia and a person was killed by a falling tree in northern Florida as Tropical Storm Elsa trekked across land Wednesday. There are reports of multiple injuries and damage to multiple recreational vehicles in the base RV park, and also reports of damage to buildings and structures on the installation, a statement from officials at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay said. Many of the injured were transported to local medical facilities for treatment.
Sarasota Emergency Management Chief Ed McCrane
Teams from Manatee County surveying damage found minor flooding along the Myakka River and the barrier islands, where some turtle nests were affected.
Minimal damage was reported in Manatee and Sarasota counties from Elsa. The tropical storm which was briefly upgraded to a hurricane overnight Tuesday caused flooding on barrier islands. Heavy flooding was reported in North Port.
Wind gusts reached 54 miles per hour at the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport overnight Tuesday.
Sarasota Emergency Management Chief Ed McCrane said the county was lucky that Elsa started weakening offshore. Fortunately, Sarasota County was spared most of the impact, McCrane said during a Zoom meeting Wednesday. It was a concerning storm a lot of rainfall, a lot of wind, but this morning when the sun came up, we were able to see that very, very minimal damage in the county, a few downed trees, some flooded roads.
Elsa, which has since weakened to a tropical storm, caused 36 flight cancelations at Sarasota-Bradenton between Tuesday and Wednesday, Piccolo said.
The airport s website shows that several flights have been canceled on Wednesday, including Southwest Airlines flights to St. Louis and Chicago. But this is because of several factors on the airline side of things, like staffing and reestablishing aircraft routes following a storm, airport chief operating officer Mark Stuckey said.
The highest wind recorded on the airfield during the storm was 54 mph at 10:46 p.m. Tuesday, Stuckey said. By tomorrow, hopefully we’ll have all of our flights operating on time, he said.
Possible Tornado From Elsa Injures Several at Navy Base in Georgia; Falling Tree Kills Driver in Jacksonville
The Weather Channel 3 hrs ago Ron Brackett and Jan Wesner Childs
Several people were injured at a campground on a Navy base in southern Georgia and a person was killed by a falling tree in northern Florida as Tropical Storm Elsa trekked across land Wednesday. There are reports of multiple injuries and damage to multiple recreational vehicles in the base RV park, and also reports of damage to buildings and structures on the installation, a statement from officials at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay said. Many of the injured were transported to local medical facilities for treatment.