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High Wind in Coastal Hillsborough, Florida
High Wind December 21, 2018 · Coastal Hillsborough, Florida
What the National Weather Service wrote
The Sunshine Skyway Bridge was closed from around 9 am to 5 pm on December 21 due to 78 mph wind gusts at the the road surface which is about 200 feet above the water.
The wider storm
A strong cold front moved southeast through the eastern Gulf of Mexico and Florida Peninsula on the 20th, preceded by a squall line. The storms produced 4 tornadoes, and damaging wind gusts, in addition to strong gradient winds behind the front on the 21st. The strong onshore winds also produced coastal flooding along the coast and moderate to major beach erosion from Pinellas County to Lee County. .
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 791308. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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