Tornado Warning

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Tornado Warning for southwestern Walton County...waterspout reported moving onshore near Sandestin...

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
827 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN WALTON COUNTY IN THE PANHANDLE OF FLORIDA...
THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SANTA ROSA BEACH AND SANDESTIN

* UNTIL 845 PM CDT

* AT 826 PM CDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A WATERSPOUT MOVING
TOWARD SHORE 7 MILES WEST OF SANTA ROSA BEACH OR VERY NEAR
SANDESTIN...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 5 MPH.

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

WATERSPOUTS MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED DAMAGE AS THEY MOVE ONSHORE. IF YOU
ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS WATERSPOUT...PLEASE GO TO A SAFE PLACE
IMMEDIATELY.

RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN
TALLAHASSEE AT (8 5 0) 9 4 2 8 8 3 3. OR...YOU MAY CONTACT THE
NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OR YOUR COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

[ShallowsNole]

I'm sitting here in South Florida, flipping channels, and Jim Cantore says "Santa Rosa Beach." :yikes:

I notify Fuzz via telephone and he goes outside :shock: to look for it. He did say he thought he saw the cloud over the western part of the bay but the "point" was going back in.

And, our weather radio remains silent. :bang:

Any reports? Hope all is OK!

[Beach Runner]

Weird. It's not on weather.com.

[Lady D]

Weird. It's not on weather.com.

A co-worker of mine and her husband are headed to the beach tomorrow for 7 days and are staying at the Sandestin Resort. They have some friends joining them Saturday. She already had a hurricane delay their vacation for about 4 days when it hit that area probably around 3 years ago.

I have seen one waterspout and love watching them as long as they stay on water. Glad it pulled back up.

[jdarg]

:yawn:

Must have been a tiny little cloud. Didn't have a drop of rain, wind, anything here- and we are in SoWal!

Grilling and dinner commenced without incident, if I don't count Mr. Peapod constantly making fun of me.:roll:

[ckhagen]

My husband says they saw it at the Hilton (he works there).

[sowalgayboi]

A friend of mine called to say he saw it going back up. I'm pretty sure we saw one yesterday around 1pm North of the Commons. Couldn't really tell once all the SUV's pulled up next to us.