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U.S. NEWS Monday 21 october 2019
Nestor heads into

Georgia after tornados

damage Florida

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON the Gulf that caused dam-
and TERRY SPENCER age. The Polk County
Associated Press Sheriff's Office said sev-
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — eral homes were dam-
Nestor raced across Geor- aged and Kathleen Middle
gia as a post-tropical cy- School had a large section
clone late Saturday, hours of its roof torn off when the
after the former tropical tornado hit late Friday near
storm spawned a tornado Lakeland, about an hour's
that damaged homes and drive southwest of Orlando.
a school in central Florida Photos posted by The Led- A camper rests on top of a boat trailer and the corner of a home as Tropical Storm Nestor passed
while sparing areas of the ger newspaper showed the area on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 in Kathleen, Fla.
Florida Panhandle devas- a home with a destroyed Associated Press
tated one year earlier by roof, downed trees, a ers in the state's south on downed trees and power less, the mayor said Satur-
Hurricane Michael. large recreational vehicle Saturday evening. Radar lines in metro Atlanta as day that Nestor brought
The storm made landfall thrown onto its side and ve- indicated possible torna- heavy rains spread across some needed rain to a
Saturday on St. Vincent hicles buried under debris. dos separately in areas Georgia. Photographs portion of the state suffer-
Island, a nature preserve About 10,000 homes were around Rhine and Vienna, showed downed trees ing from drought. But there
off Florida's northern Gulf without power Saturday. Georgia. But there was no blocking some roadways. was no damage there.
Coast in a lightly populat- "Thankfully, we have not immediate confirmation In Mexico Beach, Florida, "There have been no is-
ed area of the state, the had any reported serious of any tornadoes and no where a powerful October sues," said Mayor Al Cathey,
National Hurricane Center injuries," Sheriff Grady Judd injuries or damages were 2018 storm nearly wiped whose city is still recovering
said. Nestor was expected said in a Saturday state- reported. Elsewhere, news out that Panhandle town from Michael. "I would call
to bring 1 to 3 inches of rain ment. "However, there are outlets reported some and left thousands home- us fortunate."q
to drought-stricken inland many people dealing with
areas on its march across a damage to their homes
swath of the U.S. Southeast. and property this morning,
Forecasters said it also was some of it severe."
raising an overnight threat Another suspected tor-
of severe weather in the nado in southwest Florida
Carolinas as it continued to damaged at least a doz-
speed toward the Atlantic en homes in Cape Coral,
Ocean. While all tropical some severely, the police
storm and surge warnings department said in a state-
had been canceled by ment. No injuries were re-
Saturday afternoon in Flor- ported. Another tornado
ida, the storm escalated was reported in Pinellas
weekend threats of pos- County, producing minor
sible twisters and severe damage at a mobile home
thunderstorms elsewhere in park. In Georgia, remnants
the South. of the storm spread heavy
The storm spun off at least rains and triggered two
three tornadoes in Florida National Weather Service
as it moved north through warnings of potential twist-