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El nino season in florida producing 43 tornadoes. seven of those were powerful f-3s or stronger, a rare occurence outside of the plains. one of them damaged hundreds of homes in winter garden. the storm of the century hit on march 12 through the 13, 1993. el nino brought numerous tornadoes through northern florida and intense winds created a storm surge up to 12 feet on the western coast. fast forward to 2010. experts say el nino conditions are ripe once again and could potentially spawn 15 to 20 florida tornadoes between now and april. so what happens during el nino conditions that florida ge...

And lake mack. 21 people were killed and 76 others injured. it was the strongest el nino year and the most recently related elnino outbreak in the sunshine state. >> this is the path of the tornado. it completely leveled this mobile home park. >> reporter: 1997, '98 was the pinnacle el nino season producing 43 tornadoes, 7 of those were powerful f-3s or stronger. one of them damaged hundreds of homes in winter garden. the storm of the century hit on march 12th through the 13th, 1993. el nino brought numerous tornadoes to northern florida, and intense winds created a storm surge up to 12 feet o...

5 would be -- you would hardly see a trace of anything. we saw a week ago, t.j., ef-3s across north carolina and nu alabama, also mississippi. i'm looking at these, i'm guessing these are ef 1s and ef-2s and the lambert airport is shut down. last time it was shut down was back in 1982 and that was thanks to a blizzard. t.j., this time of year, right around easter, we almost always see the significant outbreak and yes, on the doppler radar, last night, they were looking at a tornadic super cell and i dare say, the investigators are going to say, this was, in fact, a tornado and this was, in fac...

We're looking at some top wind speeds. if they're ef-3s of 165 miles per hour. the system is making its way towards the east. so, from the piedmont and coastal regions of north and south carolina extending up into southern virginia. this is where we're looking at the greatest risk, at least, as we go towards the afternoon. in the forecast, we've got other areas to tell you about. getting whipped around today through the great lakes. and into interior sections of the northeast and new england. we can see 50 to 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts over the next 24 hours in places like buffalo also syracu...

They are saying in some spots tornadoes were on the ground nearly continuously for 25 and 30 miles. you see pockets of homes where there would be half a dozen homes destroyed or damaged and other areas where 20 and 30 homes, hundreds of homes, all across the state. take a look at this incredible time lapse photography from a tower cam. don, this is amazing. this is a period of time during the evening when this rain-wrapped tornado just kind of progressed its way across downtown raleigh and moved across this balcony area that it looks like. we had reports coming out of north carolina that some ...