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Subject : L12) What about Florida ? They get the most hurricane strikes; do they also get a lot of TC tornadoes?

Contributed by Bill McCaul

Florida is no stranger to significant TC tornado activity. Perhaps the largest TC tornado outbreak in recent Floirda history was that spawned by Hurricane Agnes in 1972 (Hagemeyer 1998, Hagemeyer and Spratt 2002) . Hurricane Opal in 1995 also generated many tornadoes in the Florida panhandle when coming ashore ( Sharp 1997). Florida also gets many tornadoes from subtropical storms or TCs having hybrid barotropic/baroclinic characteristics, such as Josephine in 1996 ( Spratt et al. 1998).

Last updated August 13, 2004

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