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Tornado Impacts Tyndall Air Force Base

 

Tyndall Air Force Base Tornado

A brief, EF-1 tornado with winds of 90 mph touched down on Tyndall Air Force Base. The tornado moved a car, broke car windows, tore a portion of a new roof off of barracks and flipped dumpsters and garbage cans on their sides.

Rating: EF-1
Estimated Peak Wind:      90 mph
Path Length (statue): 0.81 miles
Path Width: 50 yards
Fatalities: 0
Injuries: 0
   
Start Date: 1/19/2019
Start Time: 6:22 PM CST
Start Location: 30.0716, -85.6074
   
End Date 1/19/2019
End Time: 6:23 PM CST
End Lat/Lon: 30.0794, -85.5974

 

Tornado Path

Local And Regional View

 

Tornado Damage

Images by Tyndall AFB personnel

Radar/Velocity Data of the Tornado

Tallahassee (KTLH) View (Click Image to Enlarge)

6:17PM CST 6:19PM CST
6:21PM CST 6:23PM CST
6:25PM CST

 

Eglin AFB (KEVX) View (Click Image to Enlarge)

6:22PM CST 6:24PM CST

 

Note: The information on this page is preliminary and subject to change pending final review of the event the the publication in NWS Storm Data.

Thank you to Tyndall Air Force Base Personnel for their assistance in collecting pictures and data to help us in analyzing the tornado damage.