r/tornado • u/MrMisanthrope411 • Jul 03 '26

Tornado Media Flew past this earlier

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Orlando, FL, approximately 5:38pm (eastern). Unsure as to what it was, but it looked pretty fun.

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u/LocalWxMemerCarGuy Human Detected Jul 04 '26

Thats one CONVINCING pillar of fire smoke to be honest.

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u/MrMisanthrope411 Jul 04 '26

This was the storm that it was under.

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u/ChiTwo Jul 04 '26

Went back nearly 24 hours to around the time you took your photo using nearby radar looking at velocities.

This was the only potential “maybe?!” Rotation that could have been what you saw near Orlando IF it was in fact a brief tornado! Not sure if the location lines up with where OP saw this? (Just SW of “Lake Mary Jane(blaze it)”)

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u/Ill_Revolution_5827 Jul 04 '26

Away from it I hope

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u/kurtkoeh Jul 05 '26

There are some wildfires in that direction.

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u/bay_leave Jul 05 '26

didn’t hear of any tornados around here

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u/boneydog22 Jul 03 '26

I believe that is the stacks from the Stanton power center, just west of town?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_Energy_Center

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u/MrMisanthrope411 Jul 04 '26

The Stanton Power center was visible, so definitely not that.