Tornado Hits Florida TV Station Live

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, let's get to this tornado hitting this floor
to TV station. You just heard Marshall kind of laying
it out for you, but you pretty much know I
think exactly the way this plays out. But the audio
is pretty good, and you do hear this guy. His
name is Brooks Garner. He's the meteorologist that was featured
in this and he's warning people in the path of

(00:22):
this storm to take shelter. And then he realizes, of course,
the tornado's coming right towards the TV studio. And this
was live on the air. Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is a live view from our TV station of
what may be at the very least it's torrential rain
crossing I four right now, we could be looking at
a tornado on camera. Look at those trees blowing around. Okay,
bring the camera up, guys, if you can zoom out,
can you zoom out? This is a look at the
live camera of a tornado which could be passing by

(00:52):
our station right now. Okay, there's debris. We've got to
bree on. Okay, take shelter. Everybody in the Fox five
building get to your safe space under your desk. If
you're not in a designated area. We're catching debris right
now on the roof. Debris on the roof. Right now,
we're hearing. You can see the debris flying there on

(01:12):
the camera. This is a tornado. Seek shelter. Immediately, get
under your desks, guys, anchors, under the desks. Produce. Everybody,
get on the desks. Okay, that was it. We're still
in debri zone. Everybody get in. Everybody, get in the studio.
Come on in, guys. Okay, we got power flickering out.
That's a tornado. This is a confirmed tornado. National Weather Service,

(01:37):
if you're listening, this is a confirm tornado right over
the Lake Mary studios. This is heading into Lake Marie
and Sanford. Right now, get below, get below the ground level,
SORR I get to the ground level, an interior room,
away from away from the windows. This is a very
serious situation. This is a real, live tornado just hit

(02:00):
our station. We saw debrief flying. It's heading into Lake Mary,
going right down Lake Mary Boulevard and to Sandford. If
you're watching from Winter Springs, if you're watching from Sandford,
get below, shelter. We're in a fortified room. Here. Can
we swing the camera right? Is the camera still working
on our lake Mery Caam it's frozen. Okay, so we

(02:21):
lost our lake Mary Cam.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
I've been doing this for a very long time. That's
the first time with tornado has hit me while I'm
doing the weather.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
That was crazy. That was crazy to see that happen
in real time. And you know, Marshall's right, he was
pretty cool. Yeah, held it together very well. Man. There's
a lot of unknowns there. I mean, think about that
for a second. As it's all happening. That guy had
to be well. Maybe you know what part of what
could have helped him keep his cool was knowing that

(02:52):
he was on TV and he wasn't like melting down
like a little I'm gonna die, you know or whatever.
I'm so surprise they stayed on the air quite honestly,
I would think, you know, their satellite dish or whatever
was sending their signal to their tower would have been
ripped off. Yeah. Well, and you know, to what Marshall
was saying earlier that the uh, the camera that he

(03:14):
was trying to talk about, it was just frozen. Now,
I don't know if that means the final picture before
it was ripped out, because I can't imagine with those
kinds of winds that it doesn't get ripped out. As
a matter of fact, they were saying the damage indicated
that it was an EF one along most of the path,
and then a small area near there was rated an

(03:39):
EF two with pink winds right around one hundred and
fifteen miles an hour. So yeah, that's pretty crazy that
tornado hits right while they're doing a live weather broadcast.
Glad everybody's safe too. That's the best part of a
great ending to that