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Tornado slams Fla. school; 13 children slightly hurt
BAKER, Fla. (AP) — A tornado tore a section of roof from a school, causing minor injuries to 13 children as a series of storms moved through the Florida Panhandle on Friday.
The National Weather Service in Mobile, Ala., said the storms damaged a post office and several mobile homes in Baker, about 50 miles northeast of Pensacola. Homes also were damaged in the Milton area. Trees were reported down in other sections of Okaloosa County.

"There was quite a bit of damage," said meteorologist Gary Beeler.

Beeler said golfball-size hail fell at Perdido Key beach on the Alabama–Florida state line. (Related: Today's thunderstorm forecast map.)

Ken Wolf, emergency management director for Okaloosa County, said the only injuries occurred at the Baker School, which houses 1,363 kindergarten through 12th-grade students. The children had minor cuts and bruises and were treated at the scene, he said.


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