steve jerve reporting live. i'm sorry. steve andrews reporting live. we had steve jerve working all night. the entire storm team 8 team on top of this. as steve andrews told us now. this can continue to happen through april so we'll of course count on storm team 8 and our reporters to prepare ourselves to be safe. >> and we'll have to learn a new way to be prepared because most of us have been conditioned to keep our eye out for hurricanes where we have warning to get out and evacuate but with these tornados, a lot of us don't have weather radios. we need to really open our eyes and welcome this new weather phenomenon that could resist our area thanks to el nino. we'll be back with extended coverage. . >>> tornado outbreak overnight in the bay area. >> good morning i'm gayle guyardo along side gene ramirez and now we're joined by storm team 8's leigh spann. what can you tell us? >> the good news is that the threat for the strong storms and tornados well passed. it ended at, 7, 8:00 this morning. it was a well forecasted system. midnight and come throug

steve jerve joins us now. >> we had a severe thunderstorm watch earlier, and warnings for much of the area. winds switching out of the northwest. now we're looking at cooler conditions and a few clouds conditions. a few sprinkles slated to move into the area. very light stuff. that strong squall line moved through and prompted that watch for this morning has weakened. back to the west, when you run that cooler air over the warmer gulf waters, it tends to generate these warmer looking clouds. the storms are history. sprinkles, they're possible windy conditions, very rough surf conditions. not good beach conditions. and tonight 50 degrees, tomorrow 55. it's just gonna be 50s the next few hours. high pressure to the north. low pressure crawling up the east coast. and a lot of snow. as much as a couple of feet, 30 inches close. this is really gonna shut things down for a lot of these folks in that part of the country. this is gonna paralyze portions of that huge area of cities that goes up and down the northeast, washington, new york. >>> this wet windy weather threw a wrench into the pla

. >>> and our team coverage continues right now and we'll go to our storm meteorologist steve jerve for the latest. how much snow are we expecting. we see the forecast as gloom and loom but paint a picture for us. >> a couple of feet in a few areaings. we'll -- a few years. this is the storm graphic. get into that cold air and you could get massive amounts. that's the area of high pressure. places like jackson, mississippi, new orleans. you see winter weather advisories in place before this storm all the way over to dc. and eventually into the northeast places like new york and boston that entire area where it's such a great amount of population that will be dealing with vast amounts of snow in places like dc. you could be looking at at least a foot of snow. now this is a forecast here. six to 12-inches, more than that potentially farther up. you can see up around sections of roanoke salve -- roanoke virginia. if you're traveling to these areas especially into saturday. definitely check with your airline and be careful with these storms. >> we'll be checking with you in just a few momen

. >>> coming up, storm team 8 meteorologist steve jerve joining us. he will have the forecast. >> not your typical saturday morning for a group of college students. how they decided to honor dr. students as they volunteered in honor of dr. martin king jr. we go inside the stampede of service. >> everything, rip it out. >> reporter: not necessarily how we picture college students. >> we have a rep for being apathetic but i see other people wants to help just like me and it makes me feel like maybe we are not what everyone thinks we are. we want to have a positive impact on the community. >> i rarely have a day off. i go to school full time. i work full time. i'm off and i decide to give back to my community. >> reporter: 2000 usf students spent the day cleaning up around tampa. >> the point of this is so that we volunteer one day. a community and somewhere that we can actually continue to do service. >> reporter: the goal of the bull's stampede is to reflect the core values in dr. martin luther king jr. 's teachings like justice for all, strengthening

as terrifying as it is to have steve jerve yell into your >> you want him screaming out of your phone. >> and steve has the app now. >> i can't believe you didn't have the app. come on. >>> and these clouds are looking a little streaky and probably a few more than folks would like. the sun does help you warm up on a cool day. this has been a cool day. despite the clouds the temperatures will fall rather quickly. see the view at st. pete beach. 55degrees with a north wind. got some cloudiness and finally at hula bay. 57degrees. a little chilly and northwest wind at 14. got a freeze watch. this is really for tomorrow night into wednesday morning. the national weather service has issued this for sumpter county for citrus, hernando county. there will be a warning for these areas as temperatures will go below freezing. chilly conditions in the mid- 50s through this period. just a few high clouds. you saw a few of them on the camera in a moment. 52degrees with some of those clouds in the forecast through the evening hours. 49degrees at 10:00 p.m. a bit chilly for us floridians. 45degrees at

. >>> steve jerve joins us now. what a difference a day makes! >> let's get the sun back out again. >> not by northern standards. >> we're gonna be cool this weekend. slowly warming near 80 next week. a great weekend ahead, focused on the piratefest; 63 degrees at 2:00. boaters, obviously a lot of boats sliding into tampa bay smooth conditions with variable winds at 5 knots. quickly dropping temperatures into the upper 50s, becoming light and is variable with the winds and the thin high clouds. current temperatures show 50s across the area. >>> tampa police have a new security concern for >>> mrundering pirates are preparing to invade tampa. the tampa police department and other agencies want to make sure it's safeplundering pirates are preparing to invade tampa. the tampa police department and other agencies want to make sure it's safe. [ cheering and applause ] >> reporter: it's tampa's biggest party. but for some, the parade and puking pirate wanna wannabes are the problem. >> we have to plan for the worst. >> reporter: he's been involved with

. >>> steve jerve joining us now and here we are. >> a big storm for them, and earlier today. the squall line that was associated with that has cleared the area. around 9:00 am, 10:00 am, it just rolled on through. per hour. very strong winds. all that has cleared the area. the cold front pushing through. now we'll see the chillier temperatures build in. you can see those back to the west. so what to expect? storms are gone, sprinkles are possible overnight. windy conditions very rough surf. abnormally high tide tides combined with the high winds. and temperatures in the 50s. there's the area of low pressure crawling up the east coast. additional snowfall totals from now up until sunday morning. this is really the meat of the storm. from where we are. you can see that especially for places like northern virginia. but this goes all the way into north carolina as you mentioned. you can see for the dc area, western suburbs up to an estimatored 30 inches -- estimated 30 inches of snow. this is gonna shut places down as they deal with this system. this is a big storm system. not un

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. >>> steve jerve joining us this wasn't a tornado. >> it was convenient for the folks in the weather service to do this site survey from eagle 8 hd. a good vantage point from the sky. probably straight line winds. not a woornd, the official report. and these reports did also turn up some tornados farther down to the south around the cape coral area. outside you can see how things have changed since earlier today. some nice clear skies with high clouds across the area. 68 degrees with a north wind of 3 miles per hour. and winds aren't that strong. gusty at times today. but definitely coming down. so much so as a matter of fact we will likely see fog form overnight. there's the reports of a local storm farther south. south of forth myers. north of naples. and is on the east coast as well. reported toward cape coral. especially in an el nio year, we can get fast moving storms that's why we're very aware about that this time of year. most of the rain activity is cleared well to the east. a few clouds on the camera image. but look at that line passing through midday. actually before midda

. >>> and steve jerve joins us now. it wasn't a tornado. but i do want to mention that you were predicting this last night! that we could see weather just like this, and sure enough, mother nature delivered. >> we try to give people a heads up that they could see strong thunderstorms, high wind gusts like we saw in venice today. and also the possibility of tornadoes. there were some tornados farther south. what happened was a squall line came off the gulf of mexico, which is always dangerous to us this time of year. particularly during el nio phases. there briefly was a tornado watch in place too. estimates from doppler, southern areas getting the most from north port to sebring, southeastern parts of polk. and is other spots around hillsboro, pasco, picking up an amounts. tornado reports around the cape coral area, west of west palm beach. the tornado reported again, meaning we had one just last area. another el nio event. saturday. but especially the early morning hours of sunday. there is a possibility of another round of thunderstorms m

. >>> well, chief meteorologist steve jerve joins us now. a little gloomy today. >> yes, overcast. >> i got spoiled with the chilly and sunny weather. so, could you bring that back? >> you don't live in a snow globe. you can't have it perfect. you have to live with what comes. >> we don't live in a snow globe? >> that came as a surprise to me too. [ laughter ] >> see? even he is gloomy. >> mostly cloudy. conditions will continue probably overnight and throughout the day. mostly tomorrow too. temps in the low to mid 50s and the rain, well, it remains dry at this period for now. but the rain does increase later on tomorrow into the early part of friday including the possibility of thunderstorms early friday. temperatures right now in the 54 degrees at mcdill. mid 50s out in bartow. saint petersburg, 59. quite a few clouds as i mentioned. you can see the trail of clouds coming off the gulf of mexico. that is why we didn't see much sunshine today. an area of low pressure is developing in the western gulf moving our way. we will talk about rain c

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let's begin with chief meteorologist steve jerve tracking a very stormy night. >> could be very high winds in the overnight. i was reading the discussion from the storm prediction center and it was possible we could see a watch issued be it a severe thunderstorm or tornado watch in the early morning hours. the radar is continuing to pick up a growing amount of showers passing across the bay area. a good downpour across most of sarasota county, manatee have seen the most. a few moving pretty steadily through the southern and central portions of hillsborough county and coming onshore and moving from south to north across sections of pinellas county. you do see lightning strikes in the beginning of that squall line that will sweep on through the area, probably the most dangerous part of the storm itself. that doesn't mean we can't see some rotation potentially even with these showers moving on ahead at the moment. a closer look at those showers coming on shore south of bradenton through sarasota and offshore and all the way through up see at the polk county, harden county and highlands

. >>> coming up, storm team 8 chief meteorologist steve jerve give you the forecast. it was quite a task to get here. and after iowa, new hampshire >> 8 on your side your vote coverage continues tonight. once the caucuses are history in iowa, focus moving from iowa to new hampshire. candace mccowan has a preview of what we can expect. >> reporter: right after the decision is made in iowa, we will be jumping on a plane headed toward new hampshire and we are not the only ones headed there. if you are studying politics l no better place than the campaign trail. these saint pete students will be headed to new hampshire sunday. >> they are going to be getting out the votes activities. going door to door in the snow. >> reporter: these students were able to pick a candidate they support. like chris rallying for marco rubio. >> you knock on my door and i'm a die hard donald trump man. what would you tell me? >> that there are other candidates with the natural ability to lead. not just in business, but also, you know, on a conversational basis. >> reporter: you can catch our

. >>> steve jerve continues our team coverage of this morning's wild storms. i feel like a broken record, but we keep saying it, this is what el nio look like. >> exactly right. we see these lines of thunderstorms come off the gulf. strong wind gusts, fast-forming tornadoes. we had a tornado watch in place for some extreme farther south you can see reports of tornado, as well as on the east coast. in cape coral, you recall they had another tornado in the area. so this type of thing can happen with the fast upper- level winds. the storm track helps to create higher sheer values and more tornadoes in this type of regime. for the rest of friday, most of the activity well to our east. a trail of clouds moving across the area. that's a replay of what happened this afternoon. showers rolling from west to east. and you can see that line of showers in that area over st. petersburg. the southern areas saw some very strong storms as well. a tornado watch in effect briefly for sections of the viewing area. inch of rain. half inch was typical for the area. this is for sun

. >>>>> well, meteorologist steve jerve e decided to come back to workrk finally. >> i wasn't on the cruise. >>>> you were taking a coupuple of well deserved days off. you have beenen really busy in the weather center. >> we talked about the sesevere wewe have had severe weather. that makakes for unusual l hours at times. that is what we are here to do. >> e even today, a little bumpy >> ababsolutely. today. and the severe threat. it is fairly low, but therere remains a small chance in the overnight and the early part of the day tomorrow. some areas could see another inch of rain here, that would be at the high end i think. but some arereas saw well over an inch. it affected lakeland, tampa international airport. downtown saint pete over inch of rain. a lot of this should just end. you can see how is showers lifted throughout the day. we took it up to about 7:00 tonight. you can sesee the rain further out to the west. that is s a look at ththe storm reports. waterspout and the two red ones there, actual tornrnado touchdowns. and ththe one as jim mentioned was ef1 at 90 to 100 miles a

. >> reporter: newschannel8 chief meteorologist steve jerve remembers 1998 as one of the busiest and deadliest years he has ever seen. >> we saw 45 tornadoes that year. we typically see seven. >> reporter: it just so happens we are in another el nio pattern. warm water in the pacific ocean piles up and the effect changes weather patterns across the globe. >> we are in florida. lit be hot. >> reporter: let's face it. we felt el nio throughout the holidays. december had record breaking heat. now, it is time to prepare for possible tornadoes. a statewide drill took place wednesday morning. check these out. there were even selfies of safe spots. >> in florida, there's no basements. we know that. folks in oklahoma and kansas find that. but in florida, we go to an interior room. >> moms and dads take note. tomorrow morning is the chance go. this is something we need to >> thank you, melanie michael live in the forecast sent tore night. >>> something else is in the air. we are talking about power ball fever. >> yeah, record half a billion dollars and we have the numbers. let's get our ticke

. >> our team coverage continues can storm team meteorologist 8 steve jerve. are we going to see storms like this again? >> it's possible sunday morning from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00. we could see more strong a lot of this has cleared off to the east. the bay area. much calmer. had a weak cold front push through the area but it's coming in from the west so it's mild still. local storm reports show tornados down around the cape coral area again today. also over on florida's east coast as well as the local severe damage we talked about in venice and arcadia southern areas were under a tornado watch for a while, the southern sections of desoto and highlands county. it's just an indication of strong thunderstorms with that line of showers coming through in the morning hours. our rainfall, these are estimates, 2 inches of rain. this fast moving line that came through at 45, 50 miles per hour still picked up an inch of rain in some areas but a half inch was fairly common. as we look at the severe weather risk for tomorrow into the early part of and a slight risk. the sligh

. >> storm team 8 chief meteorologist steve jerve was here all through the night. this is a storm we won't soon forget, steve. >>> of course. john mentioned the el nino phase, creating tornadoes. we've seen that historically and certainly seen that so far in the last two weeks. six tornadoes, many much greater than we typically see in strength in the state of florida. take a look at what happened here the last eight hours. you can see this is 12:55 a.m. essentially this morning. you can see back to the west this area of low pressure, all of those lightning strikes. right there as the showers came together and that squall line came ashore around 3:00, that's where the tornadoes occur, then this was all moving so very quickly. that first tornado you can see on velocity mode, confirmed ef2 tornado coming ashore with 132 mile-per-hour winds, about a mile path for that one. the same area, this couplet that we saw on the velocity moved into the northern part of manatee county and a second tornado came out of it. that one, unfortunately, caused the fatalities. 127 mile-per

. >>> steve jerve tell us who temperatures.

chief meteorologist steve jerve >>> the severe thunderstorm watch that was in effect for this morning, part of the early afternoon, those showers raced through here at 35 miles per hour, did have some local gusts. you can see right now some clouds continue across the area movement. clouds rolling in, strato cumulus and very light rain. these are little light showers throughout the overnight period and possibly the early part of the day. but kind of a good bank of clouds for tomorrow with that changing wind out of the west- northwest. snow continues new york, washington, dc, all the way down through northern virginia. computer models estimate over a couple of feet possible, he welch west of dc. rain continues. cold front is clear of the state. we're working a cooler and breezy northwest to westerly wind into the area. estimates from snowfall additional, now through sunday morning, you can see maybe a couple of feet there in the bright green, rather a foot in the bright green. red would be 2 feet. 30-plus inches in the pink area there, all the way up into the northeast. folks are going

>>> good afternoon, everyone, i am meteorologist steve jerve, want to update you orn the tornado watch eroding as the severe weather threat starts to drop around the area. this is hula bay, a severe weather threat gone. 3/10 inch of rain, 64 currently. southwest winds. the next day we will see very strong westerly winds. the front is past the air, the florida highway patrol closed the skyway bridge, the skyway bridge is closed as a result of high winds. pass the word on that until miles an hour this afternoon and into the overnight period. stay tuned on that but the skyway bridge is closed according to florida highway patrol. back to the northwest things are quieting in terms of the severe thunderstorm watch, it means conditions are favorable for tornados, but mostly high wind gusts and that threat is quickly dropping in citrus, hernando, sumter, pasco county. the watch is still in place but as you see in the line of thundershowers and thunderstorms this is going quickly. no severe thunderstorm warnings in place, we had several issued that expired and not expecting any more to issue bu

the chief meteorologist steve jerve looking at one area of storms off of sarasota coastline. 2:30. keeping an eye on right here. we analyzed a lot of rotation and how fast this is moving towards the sarasota coastlines. we got on the air as the system got closer to the sarasota and unfortunately at this point would be -- 2:45 we knew it got hit. that cell came on shore and unfortunately did do a lot of damage to the cute little area of siesta key. but this cell that we've been watching already at this point for more than a half hour held that is what is unusual about this. usually with florida tornados we fell out of the sky and came up. ground. this one did so it came on shore, just after 3:00 this morning. it pushed north into manatee county by about 3:30, 3:45 and unfortunately it held together find. this is the -- intensified. this is the storm that claimed the life of mr. and mrs. wilson county. we know before anybody was out on the ground to see it, this was a large tornado because with the new doppler radars, we can what that means is, not only is the radar looking at the ra

steve harv jerve joins us now. >> they'll be digging out for a long time. and the satellite continues to show this movement of clouds from west to east across the area. you back to the west, you can see quite a few clouds. strato cumulus crowds. the storms are history for now. pushing off to the east. just a little rain left over. very rough surf in place too. and tonight's temperatures will be in the 50-degree range, 55 for tomorrow. temps recent gonna change too much. very cold. low pressure rising up the east coast, high pressure from the west. and the snowfall totals are impressive. washington dc. washington. it's coming down pretty good there at moment. farther north we're looking at west virginia, northern virginia, estimated 30 inch was snow. washington dc could see record snowfall here. climbing up into the northeast, we see the storm system there. our computer model forecast continues to move this area of low pressure, it's a classic nor'easter that way. it's grabbing lots of moisture off the atlantic, turning it into the colder air. for us this hi

meaning they may hit a few houses this storm was very unusual in that meteorologists steve jerve, meteorologist mark collins and m self watched a cell start well out in the gulf of mexico, 30 to 40 miles and we knew, when it came on shore it would be a strong tornado. what happened is at 3:00. it hit the siesta key area. that was the damage you were seeing with mary mcguire on scene there. this is 3:08 in the morning. we were on-air live telling you about it. normally what would happen is that this storm would go back up in the clouds and that would be it. that was not the case with this storm. this is a long track tornado or jumped for many, many miles. so again, starting in the siesta key area, it tracked over i-75 in sarasota county and into manatee county where then it crossed overstate road, i believe that is state road 60 and over into the duette community in north east manatee county where we've heard there have been fatalities, and injuries. the exact same cell we tracked for 30 miles off shore hit the siesta key area and moved into manatee county and hit the duette community and brough

here headed south towards the south florida area. counties, we've been hearing from mark collins, steve jerve. working overnight into the early morning hours that we've seen the worst itself and it will now start to warm up and dry out a bit. but as i was saying, most of the damage has been focussed in two areas. sarasota and manatee county. where we have two fatalities. but let's take it a step at a time. let's start with sarasota county and siesta keys where paul lamison is joining us now. what can you tell us about what you're seeing here, paul? >> i can tell you there is a lot of damage. i'm out here on ocean drive on siesta key, if i pan down here. this is a condo. you can see the windows are blown out. a lot of the structure is damaged up there. i've talked to a couple of residents. they say there is a lot of damage but everybody is okay. . if i pull back out wide. here you go. now because they had to shut off all of the power out here and now we'll cross the street and you can see all of the debris has blown on the fence over here and this is the other side of excelsier condominiums. y