Pensacola Tornado possibly damaged Ellyson Industrial Park Buildings

On February 13, 2025By Littum

(This story has been updated.)

Tragedy hit Ferry Pass on Tuesday afternoon when a Tornado tore through Ellyson Industrial Park on Copter Road and left waste, laid down power lines and shocks in its wake.

The storm tore through several buildings in the industrial park at. 16.20 and threw some of the smaller objects inside the building in the air along with other vulnerable objects such as dumpsters, vehicles and trees.

Escambia County officials say that three people not named at this time were injured during the storm and two of them were transported to local hospitals. The county performed search-and-rescue operations to make sure no one was trapped inside any of the buildings while at the same time assessing the structural damage left by the storm.

“It was just a freak storm, there was no indication of it,” said Escambia County Emergency Manager Travis Tompkins at Stormstedet. “We got nothing from National Weather Service. We have weather coming in tomorrow and we need a weather event this weekend. But this was just out of the blue. “

In previous years, several tornadoes have emerged in the region during the month of February. Unlike former Tornados, however, neither Escambia County nor National Weather Service were aware of the conditions that could have formed this hard storm, according to Tompkins.

On Wednesday morning, meteorologist Brandon Black from NWS Mobile Office confirmed that it was a tornado.

“We will send someone out this morning to investigate” the damage and return with more details of strength, path and long time it was on the ground, Black said.

Residents of the area are facing more serious weather tonight, and “We can’t exclude a tornado again,” Black said.

While county officials performed their searches and assessed injuries, employees of a nearby company were collectively shocked and in awe of what they had witnessed. At the same time, they were each grateful to go away undamaged.

“I had just started on my shift … what I was just heavy rain and the power went out once. We thought it was just the rain, ”said Kyle Nordstrom, an employee of overhead doors/Wayne Dalton Sales Center. “The second time it came by, () light shut down completely … I look through the garage gate and just see things thrown over, slam against the building.”

Employees went down to their metal workplace across the street.

“It felt like normal rain, it surprised all,” Nordstrom continued. “It was quick … Suddenly it just tore it through.”

Another employee who gave his first name, Dave, is no stranger to dangerous weather events when he was in the area under Hurricane Sally five years ago. Still, he described Tuesday’s experience as “surreal” to the standards of the Pensacola area.

“It was a little surreal if I am honest … We get raining here all the time, so it was nothing unusual (first). Then the lights started to flicker to and from, then I heard the transformer blow, ”Dave told the news script. “Just around the corner is a large steel door, it sounded like someone was driving a truck right through it and hit it a few times.”

Dave said no one had a clue as to what happened. However, his personal experience during Hurricane Sally, where a transformer blew in his neighborhood, the steel, while navigating the situation.

“Usually when a tornado hits, we get a warning,” Dave continued. “I think people didn’t really have time to treat until afterwards.”

Tompkins said staff from the National Weather Service ‘Mobile Office will come to stage on Wednesday morning to assess the site.

“On some (recent tornadoes), there was prior report that they had seen something that looked like it would come in,” said Tompkins. “Unfortunately with this event, nothing was expected that would have shown that this would happen today. We coordinate with them and we let them decide if it was a tornado or a linear window. “

While both county officials and citizens were uniquely unprepared for this storm, Tompkins told the news magazine that neither the labor of labor nor resources on the NWS contributed to Tuesday’s surprise.

The eastbound lane of the Copter Road opened up again shortly before 6pm, when county officials completed a final round of search and rescue before leaving the stage.

Original Story:

Escambia County first responders respond to a possible tornado in Ferry Pass, which reportedly hurt more people and caused damage to several buildings in the area.

The incident took place around 1 p.m. 16.20 in the 3300 block Copter Road in Ellyson Industrial Park.

More injuries have been reported and treated on stage by Escambia County EMS, according to county officials. Three patients have been transported by EMS to a local hospital. This is an active event and the exact number of injuries is unknown at this time.

Several commercial buildings were damaged in the incident where a building maintained serious roof damage.

Video and photos posted on social media by people on stage with the incident appear to show damage to roofing, remnants of metal plate on the ground, a semitrailer that was tilted on its side and even a small tree that was Touted.

Escambia County has notified the mobile’s national weather service and is working to determine the nature of the weather incident.

Several meteorologists posted on social media that they suspect it may have been a small tornado -touchdown.

In a number of positions on X, Spinker Spink Megginon, a meteorologist based in Brewton, Alabama, shared pictures and video taken from the stage and attributed it to a tornado.

“This injury happened due to a tornado touching the Pensacola Metro near Copter Road on Tuesday evening around 16.20,” he wrote. “No Tornado warning was in effect when the rotation was in a low-peaked shower.”

Another meteorologist, James Spann, posted on x around 2 p.m. 17, “Looks like a little tornado has touched down the northern part of Pensacola within the last hour …”

National Weather Service in Mobile has warned that the region can see harmful windows up to 60 km / h and a few tornadoes through Wednesday.

The serious weather threat comes in rounds on Wednesday, with the first round affecting southeastern Alabama and northwestern Florida from 1 p.m. 10 to 16 Wednesday. The second round begins Wednesday night and concentrates mostly west of Interstate 65 from 7 p.m. 21 to 7 p.m. 1 and then switches west of I-65 until around 10 pm. 05 Thursday.

This is an evolving story.