> any explanation? as an amateur guess, i'd speculate it had something to do with the abnormal path of the storm. most storms move east to west before curving north/northeast. this one moved straight west to east and hit right in the middle of florida. so you had a situation where the outer bands of milton were pulling tons of warm moist gulf air into central florida, while the west-> east trajectory of the storm led to wind shear at higher altitudes and favorable tornado conditions.
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