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Tornado damages structures in Copter Road area; NWS says low-level rotation escaped radar detection
Summary
A tornado struck the Copter Road area of Escambia County on Feb. 11, damaging structures and prompting 911 calls; the National Weather Service said radar sampled higher in the storm and did not detect the low-level rotation that produced the tornado, so no tornado warning was issued.
An Escambia County communications official said a tornado struck the Copter Road area of Escambia County on Tuesday, Feb. 11, damaging structures and prompting multiple 911 calls shortly before 4:30 p.m.
Jason Beeman, meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service’s Mobile/Pensacola office, said the forecasted threat that day was a low-end, marginal risk focused west of Pensacola and that the tornado developed in a part of the storm below where local…
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