EF Ratings from Tuesday's Tornado Outbreak

NEW INFO [9:00 PM ET Wed Jan 10]: Many tornado surveys were performed throughout Wednesday to rate the confirmed tornadoes on the EF scale. We are still waiting for the official reports, but preliminary ratings have surveyed our strong and worst-hit tornado at EF3 in strength in the Panama City, FL vicinity.

The National Weather Service Offices out of Columbia, SC rated the Bamberg tornado an EF2. The NWS out of Tallahassee rated the Lynn Haven tornado EF2, and the NWS out of Morehead City will be surveying on Thursday.

Numerous tornadoes moved across the southeast on Tuesday, including multiple confirmed tornadoes along the Florida panhandle between Pensacola and Panama City Beach. The storm moved onshore around 5 AM local time on Tuesday morning, originally as a waterspout, hitting homes in the lower lagoon.

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Extensive damage was seen in Panama City Beach as a tornado moved onshore after it was over open waters as a waterspout. Homes were knocked off their foundations and roofs torn off buildings. A curfew was put in place in PCB for authorities to be able to perform search and rescue and cleanup debris.

That same storm cell went on to hit the I-10 corridor where our field correspondent caught widespread damage in Marianna. .The National Weather Service Office out of Tallahassee plans to conduct numerous storm surveys but warns that it will be a slow process due to inaccessible roads and closures because of the storms.

Additional storms through southern Alabama and Georgia led to the death of an 81 year old woman in Cottondale, AL (south of Dothan) when her trailer was flipped in severe weather early Tuesday morning. There was a confirmed tornado moving through Henry and Houston counties early Tuesday morning, part of a different storm cell. Additional tornadoes were reported in central South Carolina, the Tampa Bay area and Southeast Georgia.

At one point over 250k people were without power in Gulf Coast states. Some isolated areas across the South are still in the dark but power crews are working hard to get everything restored as quickly as possible.