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Tampa
Sunny
Lo Hi
87
Pcpn
0% 0%
Partly Cloudy
Lo Hi
84
Pcpn
0% 0%
Scattered Showers
Lo Hi
80
Pcpn
10% 40%
Sarasota-
Bradenton
Sunny
Lo Hi
87
Pcpn
0% 0%
Partly Cloudy
Lo Hi
86
Pcpn
0% 0%
Scattered Showers
Lo Hi
84
Pcpn
10% 30%
Fort Myers
Sunny
Lo Hi
89
Pcpn
0% 0%
Sunny
Lo Hi
87
Pcpn
0% 0%
Sunny
Lo Hi
86
Pcpn
0% 10%
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Tampa, FLSarasota-Bradenton, FLFort Myers, FL
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On April 19, 1988 at 3:30 AM...
A tornado moved through Madison in Madison Co., destroying 17 homes and damaging 30 others, in addition to several commercial buildings, a church, and three buildings at North Florida Junior College. Two people were killed in a mobile home and two were killed in a farm house, with 18 other injuries reported. About 90,000 chicks were killed. Other tornadoes hit Bellville in Hamilton Co., and severe thunderstorm winds were reported in Quincy, Gadsden Co. Later in the morning severe thunderstorm winds unroofed a house and blew a large tree on a car near Lake Apopka in Orange Co. and a tornado near Mascotte in Lake Co. heavily damaged seven mobile homes and a frame house.